Englander wrote:
rob faux wrote: Much is made of draw bias on this outside track ,but if you look at the draw bar graphs, in the Winning Form,the facts suggest that the perception of bias is over estimated!
Rob, in the not so old days I am 99% certain that the graphs did not differentiate between the two courses hence they levelled each other out. My perception on the graphs has recently changed a little though so maybe it is different now. I say that because I am pretty sure they never used to take account of the number of runners either so low always seemed favoured, that is not the case now. Maybe Dev can give clarification.
Personally, I do think there is a big bias on occasion but certainly not for every meeting. If I have two horses fairly closely matched, I would always go for the one drawn high on the outer and low on the inside, should they be drawn on different sides. I would say though that when I look back at past results on formgrids, it is often unclear as to which track they were on simply based on draw and placings.
