Thanks for the input max and iiicream. I had a few days in a hospital room last week so I ran a lot of races and different tracks. As with anything else your mileage will vary by track. But what you would expect holds true, tracks where early is more important show a greater result and vise versa. The .21 gap also holds about a 60% to 70% gap at most tracks for containing the winner. Interesting to note.
In recent days I have been using a column that ads last 8th to class of dog and the winner comes from top 3 a very high percentage. I do not have a ton of races yet so nothing definitive.
I was hoping to get to hang out with Jack again and learn more about his process. I called last week and his sister said he was very sick. Not sure when or if he will be well enough again to talk and share. But I’m hopeful. Guys like him were killing it when I was too young to even make a wager.