Originally Posted by Messenger
Kevin, I mentioned above, $1.8 to $2.5 is optimum favourite price to ensure best returns for harness racing industry. This information is direct from wagering service providers.
Thus any assumption that "all odds-on favourites are bad for the industry" is incorrect. And any statistic that lumps all odds-on favourites in the one pod, eg: "44% odds-on favourites" is superfluous because some of those are I'm guessing optimum favourite price ($1.8 to $1.95).
HRV is hoping to reduce the number of $1.4 to $1.04 favourites, because that bracket of odds-on pops results in reduced turnover on races and thus reduced returns to the industry.
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