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Old 10-14-2018, 12:37 PM   #4
Jeebs
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Originally Posted by For The Lead View Post
There are a few tracks that run an 8f race out of a chute on the backstretch. Belmont and Arlington Park are just two of the very few tracks that do this.
Gulfstream also cards one mile dirt races around one turn since they rebuilt that oval at the end of the 2004 season. Churchill Downs has the distinct oddity of being a one mile dirt oval, yet running their one mile dirt races out of a long chute due to the short run into the first turn there.

How do you treat one mile race lines from Ellis Park when comparing them to one mile races around two turns or one turn? I ask because Ellis has that vertical dogleg start unique in North American racing. Saratoga had something similar back in yesteryear. I would almost be inclined to not use an Ellis line and treat it as a non-comparable but perhaps I'm confusing the situation more than I need to.

Thanks!
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