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Maryland homebred Joe, a multiple stakes winner on dirt, made the successful transition to the turf with a hard-fought neck victory in the $100,000 James W. Murphy Stakes, Joy’s Rocket scored a dominant 4 ¼-length triumph in the $100,000 Skipat Stakes, and Carotari won the $100,000 Jim McKay Turf Sprint Saturday on the Preakness Stakes undercard at Pimlico Race Course.
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Handicappers’ Toolbox
As noted above
Glory Dia had an impressive Beyer number on April 19 at Parx. Yet while Beyer numbers are a powerful tool, they’re also popular enough that relying on them alone gives you no edge over the other bettors who also use them.
If you want to go old school, consider using the Speed Rating and Track Variant that are also in the DRF. The Speed Rating and Track Variant are the pair of numbers that are directly to the right of the odds in the past performance running line(s) for each horse. The speed rating represents how fast the horse ran relative to the fastest time at the track and distance in the last three years, where the fastest time is set to 100. The variant is an average of how much faster or slower all races on the day were compared to the fastest in the last three years.