Do racetracks investigate payoff anomalies?

[westernmassbob]

I have seen a few questionable payoffs this past week at Saratoga. Nothing super off but a few exactas that paid less then they should have based on odds. One example was yesterday’s last race exacta was 12-11. This exacta paid 20.00 less then had the third place horse come in second with lower odds. It got me thinking how over 20 years ago ( dam time flies) that guy from autotote was fired for altering tickets. That went on for quite some time before he altered that huge pick 6 ticket in the breeders cup and was caught. I know a lot of people don’t believe that past post betting exists or could happen again but I still think a lot goes on that nobody will ever know about. I hope someone out there investigates these payoff anomalies that happen at any given track at any time.

[elhelmete]

Please keep putting your money in the pools.

[PaceAdvantage]

Originally Posted by westernmassbob

I have seen a few questionable payoffs this past week at Saratoga. Nothing super off but a few exactas that paid less then they should have based on odds. One example was yesterday’s last race exacta was 12-11. This exacta paid 20.00 less then had the third place horse come in second with lower odds. It got me thinking how over 20 years ago ( dam time flies) that guy from autotote was fired for altering tickets. That went on for quite some time before he altered that huge pick 6 ticket in the breeders cup and was caught. I know a lot of people don’t believe that past post betting exists or could happen again but I still think a lot goes on that nobody will ever know about. I hope someone out there investigates these payoff anomalies that happen at any given track at any time.

They investigate ACTUAL anomalies

[BarchCapper]

If I'm not mistaken, I believe we've already had discussion somewhere on this board about NYRA's practice of excluding CRW in the WPS pools a certain number of minutes to post, but how that exclusion does not extend to the exacta pools. So the teams will use their algorithms and slam certain combinations in the exactas based on perceived inefficiencies that will not be reflected as readily in the win pools as they would be at other tracks. But all of it isdone in the last seconds PRE-race.