Time to take a quick look at the track bias for Belmont Park and Churchill Downs for May.
Belmont Park
5/1/11: track played fair, 1 gate to wire
5/4/11: edge to speed, 2-4 paths, 4 gate to wire
5/5/11: slight edge to runners off rail, 3-5 paths, 0 gate to wire
5/6/11: track played fair, 0 gate to wire
5/7/11: […]

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I have had a hard time finding any track bias at Gulfstream Park since the meeting opened in January. In the past five weeks I have only detected five days where I thought there was a bias, and a couple of those days are questionable.
The Aqueduct inner track has been playing fairer than it has […]

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Some are commenting over how “speed friendly” the Keeneland polytrack surface has become, but overall it has played fair to all running styles.
While in previous meetings I might toss some weak hearted front-runners, that is not the case this meet, as horses on or near the lead have won their share of races, but I […]

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Through the first 15 days of the fall meeting at Belmont Park the track has been playing fair for the most part.
I could only find one day (Sept. 19) that the track was favoring speed, and one day where I thought the rail was dead (Sept. 25).
There was some question about Super Saturday after Haynesfield […]

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It is time to catch up with the track bias for the past two weeks. Both tracks were on the tricky side, with Belmont Park running an abundance of cheap claimers on the turf, limiting our sampling on some days to as few as four races on the main track.
At Monmouth Park, […]

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Through the first eleven days of the Monmouth Park meeting the track has mostly played fair, with a  couple of days where the edge went to horses coming from off the pace.
Only on June 11 was the track speed favoring, five runners going gate to wire that day.
Speed held up well last […]

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Track Bias Reports
Time to catch up on the Track Bias Reports for the last two weeks. The racing strip at Churchill Downs played fair for the most part, except for Oaks and Derby Day, where there was a slight edge to horses coming from off the pace and off the rail.
Yes, I […]

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Keeneland went from a speed biased surface to a haven for stalkers and closers when the polytrack was installed, but this spring has seen a slight shift.
Horses on or near the lead have fared well so far at the meet, On four of the first 12 days of the meeting, speed held […]

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Before we get to the Track Bias Report for the past two weeks for the Big A, here is my Top Eight List of Derby contenders:
Turf ‘n’ Sport Kentucky Derby Elite Eight
The countdown begins for the start of the Keeneland meeting. The spring meeting opens on Friday, April 2 and runs until Friday April 23.
I […]

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Speed has not exactly been king at the Big A this month.
 There has not been one day where the racing surface was playing to speed, and on three days so far this month the edge actually went to horses coming from off the pace.
January was a different story, with a strong inside speed bias showing […]

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