Downey Profile Analysis: 'Horse for the Course' Doesn't Work in Derby
Date Posted: 3/10/2006 1:59:56 PM
Last Updated: 3/15/2006 6:33:59 PM

Private Vow, winning the Futurity at Belmont, has an affinity for Churchill Downs but that may not matter in the Kentucky Derby.
Photo: NYRA/Adam Coglianese
By Dick Downey
TheDowneyProfile.com
At TheDowneyProfile.com, we utilize 13 factors more common to Kentucky Derby winners than non-winners, based on our 33-year study, in order to create an objective, weighted-factor predictor of Kentucky Derby success. One factor that we do not use is the "horse for the course" handicapping angle, the one that looks to horses that have run well at Churchill Downs. More....

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