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Old 07-13-2016, 11:57 AM   #132
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Originally Posted by classhandicapper
That's a good point. Also, a lot of the horses that are in the back of the field are not there because it's their running style. It's because they are slow horses. So at least some small part of the reason the stats are generally worse for trailers on both dirt and turf is that they are longshots that wouldn't have much of shot from anywhere.
Exactly. Many of those horses at/near the back are slow due to lack of ability or some physical problem that day, or because of atypical gate/equipment/early trip trouble. Habitual deep closers with legitimate ability in turf routes are at an overall disadvantage but not by nearly as much as some raw stats on early running position would suggest.
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