In my opinion, California track's workouts are useful because trainers work their horses every 6-10 days and they are posted in the pp's. No work outs or short or sporadic is a negtive sign.
Mountaineer and northern winter tracks either don't work their horses after layoffs or they just don't post work outs.
The only thing I can look at is if the horse shows a similar lay off race with no workouts -- how did it do? --- and/or what is the trainer's record with lay off horses?
I do enough "guessing" when I handicap, so guessing a horse's condition and form is something I wish I didn't have to do.
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