Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-03-08 | Page 58 | Favorites Do Not Always Come First

FAVORITES BO IT ALMSCilE FIRST Statistics Show Only 40 of Every 100 Prime Selections Are Winners. NEW YORK, larch 7. Do you "play" t!)e ponies? Well, then, It'p n pretty snfo wager that, like the others who do, you llgure that i when you lay a hot on a heavy favorite the chances are more than even tliut the favorite will canter homo ahead of the field. But you figure wrong. -Tho chances are only two in five no matter how hlg or small the field that the favorite will win. And the chances of an outsider winning are almost as great aa those of the favorite. This average not- only relates to the 131- results, but to all tho races staged In the last eight years. Forty-one out of every 100 favorites won last year. In 1912 It was forty. lill it was forty, 11)10 forty-two, 1009 forty-three, in 1908 fortv, In 1907 thirty-nine, and in 190C forty-one. Statistics complied by the Chicago Racing Form, covering -170S races run last year over the more lniportnnt tracks In the country, show that the favorites finished fin-ished In first place only 1912 times, against 1695 outside winners, in 1912, out of -1338 races, the favorites won only 1747 times, against 1575 victories by outsiders. out-siders. Hero la a table showing the results of tho races run In the most Important cities last year nnd also In 1912: a I 2.? .b t-v 5- 2.EL CH. Tr,ck- . 2?. i is 1313. in.x. I 6 I I I .03 Legion :::: 1" 2 IS KlnK Edward Park , 3 5? ,X Churchill Downa , l ; rort r.rlo 55 , Woodbine Park (Toronto) .... 33 a 31 "si vii&r?. s ti '4 2?" "::::: " " : SSiU ?jj a uUrer, 'AUn 374 133 UC M Delorimle'r" Park ".:;'.'.'.".:'.:;;:: 100 41 $ '!? Hlllcrest Park " ' ,?? ll J: Mineral 6PrlnKs . jg j , Charleston n Havre de Oraco m m 'Si Duclaa Park l g 131 james'-V.V.V.v.;;:;:::-;;;;- i f, Utonla . ............ -li i ,11 ?? pimiic ....... . ... :.;:;;;- i?? 'S; Dufferin Park j S U c Lexlncton 11: tl Kin; Kdward Park " S? 40 5 "Ik Churrhlll Downs Ui ? '1- Fort nrle 3" WooWne Park"(Toron'to) " $ "IS Tulia i iV ?2 coeur-Aiene : HttE" I I H 1 Mineral Spring : , 9 " -g Charleston Ai. ,i: pQUKlaa Park ... &