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Originally Posted by Lt1
The Doc answer that question at the 93 Vegas seminar. Ted C asked how to deal with Woodbine where horses were coming off of extended layoffs. Doc stated assume that the trainers were working these animals and knew what they were doing.Then treat them like they ran last week.
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I think the racing world has changed since then. As stated above, trainers back then were working their horses into shape. There has been a big shift toward trainers racing their horses into shape, compounded by pressure on trainers from racing secretaries to enter horses to fill cards. Welcome to the new world of 6-8 horse fields, half of them entered to race them into shape and to stay on the good side of the racing secretary. And maybe to get better odds when their horse is a legit contender?
Pre-virus, there were too many tracks, too many races, and not enough horses. The situation has changed, at least for a while, as evidenced by all of the full fields plus also eligibles at tracks like Oaklawn recently.