The weather report for Arcadia is a bit sketchy for Saturday with rain in the afternoon/evening. I wonder if they\'ll get the card in before the rain? I\'ll be watching the track surface carefully. I think they\'ll work on it, so it will likely play pretty fast with the inside paths being best and closers will be at a huge disadvantage. Hopefully, it won\'t be like cement or goo where 75% of the horses won\'t extend themselves at all. Regarding the grass, a very consistent speed bias has help up recently, and I don\'t see that changing either. I\'ll be looking for inside paths and speed/pressers on both surfaces. Might be like BC day only worse. A very strange track indeed. With the synthetic advent, races like the Big Cap have lost their luster, but there should still be good betting opportunities on such a card. I\'m wondering if the BC Classic was indeed only a mediocre race unlike my original assessment; Gio Ponti didn\'t come back and win, but that may not be a good test. Not sure, really.
