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Originally Posted by CosmicWon
Never been able to find the answer but I've wondered for years--does anyone know if there is a way to see if a horse drew into an off the turf race as a Main Track Only horse in either the PPs or in charts? (Without keeping the PPs for the race in question obvi)
I've never seen it denoted in the running lines of any PPs/Sheets and almost certain I haven't seen "MTO" anywhere in charts unless a horse scratches as a Main Track Only.
I ask because sometimes I want to know if a horse won an off the turf race because it drew in as MTO or because it's a "turf" horse who also has ability on on dirt but can't ever find the MTO denotation after the race has been run.
Help?
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Hey Cosmic,
This is what I was able to find from the MTO's for 2016 at Belmont that were not scratched and eventually ran into their respective races for the month of May.
It seems there was only 1 winner, 3 place finishers and 3 show finishers so 7 hit the board out of the 13 that were entered to run in May at Belmont as MTO's.
For me, when looking at it as it relates to Belmont, it may not be worth the effort to examine the occurrences since only half of them hit the board and the prices were pretty small this year.
However, maybe past years at Belmont or the other New York tracks may yield different results but so far it doesn't look like it's worth the effort.
Maybe others can see something different at other tracks.