22nd January 2007, 06:41 PM
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Dunno Mad,
It's not that they are more accurate, it's that 22 consecutive favourites in a row in more than a two horse race is statistically improbable. This doesn't happen rarely either.
I don't think that Americans are better judges by thousands of percents than anywhere else in the world.
Bear in mind these horses were not all odds on, not even all even money, many of them were around the $2.80 to $3.30 mark.
As Mark said, boat races.
I would expect them to win more than 1 in 2, but only if there were two horses in the race, these were fields of up to 10 starters.
Of course it could be my bad luck, but months later I took another look to have a very similar result happen, so won't be going anywhere near it in future.
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