Re: Mike Smith on $50 winner? * no further (742 Views)
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SoCalMan2 (IP Logged)
Date: June 21, 2016 05:18PM
Also, sometimes there are tracks where the rail is just dead and everybody knows it and nobody goes on the rail.
I do not know any tracks like that now, but in the last 10 years -- there was a time when nobody went on the rail at PRX and the same was true for one of the thoroughbred tracks in Indiana (I do not recall which one).
My point is that jockeys who rode regularly at one of those tracks would have inflated path stats, which was fine as long as he/she was riding against jocks with similarly inflated path stats. But at least when it was the case at PRX, the PRX jocks would have terrible stats while a jockey who rode mostly elsewhere in the mid-atlantic and came into Parx for the day would come off looking like Angel Cordero by comparison (at least path stat wise).