I have seen those 7 day stats before, but have never seen the stats when all 2nd and 3rd up horses are taken out of the equation. I would harness a guess and say it would dramatically improve the POT.

Also distances staying the same or maybe a little longer, rather than coming back in distance, I would guess the same for this.

And maybe a 20 percent or more win strike rate might also weed out a few fluke runs from 7 days before.

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