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Originally Posted by castaway01
It's amazing how difficult it is to find this information in a simple search (not sarcasm), but eventually I found an article from February 2020 that said that handle went up 6.5% after they restricted whip use and they were planning to continue the rule in 2020.
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I have never been to Woodbine but apparently the track is very close to where spectators stand to the point where they can "hear" the whip on the horse, so that may have influenced the decision?