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I posted a comment but I guess it has to be approved.
The passing lane sucks. I've been playing Miami Valley, which I believe has the best 5/8's track in the country....longer stretch, no passing lane, good payoffs, and the favorites are winning at 32%. The outside flow is much better there than most harness tracks. The only negative is that posts 7, 8, 9 are not winning as much as they should, perhaps they should get a slanted starting gate, or have an untimed run up to give those horses a better chance at leaving. This is common when there's a long stretch, it's harder to leave. But, still, overall the racing is good and not having a passing helps.
Harness racing always screws it up when it tries improvements: steel sulkies, terrible...passing lane, terrible...artificial insemination, stupid and almost killed the breed until Alan Leavit finally got them to cut down on breedings...lasix, terrible....
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