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Originally Posted by Inner Dirt
One thing I did notice at Santa Anita back in the day, on a day with dry track and no rain that day, they would water and re-harrow the track after the 4th race, only that one time during the card. You could often see a difference between races 1-4 and 5-9.
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Originally Posted by classhandicapper
I guess if you are at the track every day and take notes of what's going on you might be able to find some reliable patterns, but it's still very tricky because the sun, temperature, wind and maintenance varies and all those things impact the moisture content and depth.
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That area of SoCal can have identical weather for weeks at a time day in and day out. Even humidity was constant, Santa Anita also rarely got any wind.
