Yuckman,

I used "generally" for a reason:

http://www.answers.com/generally&r=67

Your attempt at satire has failed because apparently you didn't know the meaning of that word.

I also suspect you also don't have any figures to back your claims over mine.

I've just run this test over my data of ~1.5 million runs.

The ROT is best of SP/TAB Limited using proportional staking.

For races up to 1400m:

RFS ROT

2 - 84.6%
3 - 85.2%
4 - 88.5%
5 - 94.2%
6 - 92.1%
7 - 89.1%


There is a clear bias in favour of 5-7 versus 2-4. Even for these shorter races.

If a young sprinter goes stale after its 1st 2 runs, then any sane trainer will spell them. So they won't have a 4th - 7th run.