Gulfstream

[Mark]

It appears that Gulfstream Park is attempting to run year round. Their single turf course can not stand up to that use and with winter turf racing is nonexistent outside Florida, other southern states and the west track management is using this racing to attract betters and horses. However, as you can see whether via ommission or intent, they
haven't made the necessary changes in starting gate and timer beam placement positons. The result is that the outer oval is probably somewhere around 100 ft longer of a race and the early fractions are much slower.
However, you don't have to be fooled in your paceline selection. The new distance has huge variants 40 -60. When you see these avoid those lines. This new distance also has second calls about 2 seconds slower than the inner surface. This will become more apparent as the same horses run over the different courses, particularly Early horses. Until a new par is established,
probably next year, for the outer oval, or the starting gate position is changed or the distance is recognoized as "about" the program will see horses off those lines off the outer course as slower.