Winter is upon us and that means it is bias time at Laurel !
I checked the Laurel charts from yesterday after reading the other thread about dead rails.
Please go to DRF.com and click on results and then PDF Charts to see for yourself.
Here is what I saw briefly:
In 9 races, the longest shot on the board finished in the exacta 3 times.
One winner paid 100.80 to win.
All 3 longest shots on the board got rail trips.
As I have stated , Friday was always a HUGE day for grading the track AND CHUTES at Laurel. Apparently and not at all surprisingly, it still is.
If the night forecast is for temps to get below freezing during the week, the track needs to be worked most of the night. Grading is a must or a very dead rail will show up. Friday's are positively grading days in the winter. More biases occur at Laurel on Fridays than any other day. Many a Saturday will follow up close to the same if not the same in the winter.
It did not get as cold last night as it did on Thursday night but I have to think it was graded again today. Probably not the chutes, which can be big, but if it was not all that cold, the chutes were not worked much so they should stay about the same as yesterday.
I would at least keep an eye on Laurel early today and see whats going on.
Hope that helps .