Originally Posted by
WillieMcFML
each horse is minted with a specific gate preference
there isn’t any proof they’ve activated it yet, but someone did notice it was slipped into the TOC’s very recently
Edit: the gate preference might work like distance preference to where you run better closest to that preferred gate and run worse the farther you are away from it so it could take some serious discovery to dial it in
Projekt SEP might be a good one for me to use to experiment here.
He was pwning heads until a few days ago, and now he's constantly losing.
Starting 11/16 (is that when the new TOS took effect?), he stopped flaming at Class IV $5 distance races as much, and also started losing even when he did flame. Prior to that, it was a flame almost every time, and he frequently showed (and won at a nice clip).
Here's the races he's done since then, all $5 at Class IV. All listed in format length/flame/place/gate/better top 3 (Y/N)
2400m/N/2/7/Y
2400m/N/8/9/Y
2400m/N/10/9/N
2200m/Y/3/4/Y
2400m/N/1/9/N
2200m/Y/4/8/N
2600m/N/8/8/Y
2400m/Y/5/7/N
2400m/N/7/7/N
2400m/N/8/7/N
2200m/Y/8/6/N
2200m/Y/11/9/N
2200m/Y/5/4/N
2400m/Y/8/9/N
2200m/Y/4/8/N
Clearly he flames more at 2200 than 2400 and 2600.
However, looking at where he was one of the best 3 horses and didn't flame, he was at gates 9 and 7 twice. He flamed at game 4 once when there were better horses who didnt't flame. He flamed as expected when at gates 4, 5, 6, 8 twice, and 9 twice. He didn't flame when you'd expect he wouldn't at gates 7, 8, and 9.
Can I conclude anything from this? Not really. It does look possible that gates 4-6 are better than 7-9, since he over-flamed at 4, under-flamed at 7 and 9 twice, and flamed as expected at 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 thrilce and 9 thrice.
Sample size is small though.
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