By In the $200K G2 Seabiscuit at Del Mar today in race 5, run at 1 1/16 mi. on the turf for three-year-olds and up, #4 Call Sign Seven won at 68-1 in an incredible upset. However, the Chaos Index’s reading of 3.5 in the Racing Report signaled that the race would be volatile and that an unexpected result was possible. With the Racing Report for Del Mar, the user would have been able to see Call Sign Seven not only as a Chaos Pick, which appear in their own row in the the PDF when there is a high reading of the Chaos Index, but also as a Value Pick in having LP converted to odds of 4.9-1. At 68-1, the horse was offering an astronomical discount on its LP strength. Call Sign Seven’s LP into a hot pace was the difference in the race with the horse accelerating late along the rail inside the final sixteenth. The race illustrates the value of the Chaos Index in forecasting volatility in the overall race and how the user can take advantage of that predicted volatility in expanding coverage to Chaos and Value picks to find winners at big odds.
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