About the final time...
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About the final time...
Ok so DRF is saying it's 1:53.46 and then claiming it's the fastest in Preakness history. Thing is, if Louis Quatorze and Tanks Prospect ran 1:53 2/5 as in on the nose .40 seconds then it's not. What are the real final times of those two, unrounded?
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Louis Quatorze did it in 1:53.43.
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DuncanPatch
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Secretariat ran the Preakness in 1:53-2/5 in 1973, confirmed by 2 independent DRF clockers and by a CBS film comparing Secretariat's run with Canonero II's then-record time. The Pimlico teletimer showed the final time as 1:55, but the CBS film showed Secretariat coming home 3 lengths ahead of Canonero, or 3/5 seconds faster, confirming the DRF clockers identical timing. The Pimlico officials admitted the teletimer had malfunctioned but refused to recognize the final time as 1:53-2/5, leaving it at 1:54-2/5. Pimlico has consistently refused to correct its time. The DRF official chart gives Secretariat the track record.
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Did Tanks Prospect also do .43 then? I assume so or LQ would be the sole record holder. Secretariat does have it by rights and DRF's pretty awesome in my book for insisting on it. Of course they then blew it by jumping the gun on the 'fastest Preakness' label.
This means Curlin does not have the record then and they better not give it to him on ESPN. I mean sure it's close but things that ought to be corrected by research but aren't get on my nerves. ESPN's pretty good pointing out how Pimlico doesn't have tighter turns than Churchill even though it seems like everybody tries to mention that it does at some point every year.
This means Curlin does not have the record then and they better not give it to him on ESPN. I mean sure it's close but things that ought to be corrected by research but aren't get on my nerves. ESPN's pretty good pointing out how Pimlico doesn't have tighter turns than Churchill even though it seems like everybody tries to mention that it does at some point every year.
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Hi Heidilady -- I too hope DRF doesn't get carried away about "the fastest" Preakness. If Street Sense had won few people would care, all the attention would already be on the Belmont. (I think if Borel had moved one second sooner in the Preakness Street Sense might have held off Curlin, needing that extra length or two to allow for Street Sense's loss of intensity when he gets the lead [quoting Nafzger]). Let's hope Nafzger changes his mind about not going to the Belmont -- its not to soon to get a rivalry going full blast after such a letdown for us Triple Crown disappointed ones. Curlin is a terrific racehorse and will only get better. The Travers should be a knockout race.
Next year we'll be hearing about the "tight turns" at Pimlico, even though they aren't. Funny how these things hang on. But then, you'd think after 34 years, Pimlico could find its way to correcting that 1973 error.
DP
Next year we'll be hearing about the "tight turns" at Pimlico, even though they aren't. Funny how these things hang on. But then, you'd think after 34 years, Pimlico could find its way to correcting that 1973 error.
DP
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