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Postby TJ » Sun Feb 24, 2008 6:48 pm

Either my eyes or my ears decieved me when I watched the race being run and the announcer noted the slow early fractions. The DRF posted entirely different fractions and final times then were posted during the running of the race. The time was so slow early I was getting ready to make a case for Shug's 3YO colt who broke his maiden today. His fractions and final time were faster than the FOY winner. So far I haven't seen an article about a timer malfunction, but there is a 2+ second difference in the times I saw posted at the track and the official DRF charts. Does anyone have any info? TJ
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Postby larrygene » Sun Feb 24, 2008 7:14 pm

The results on Equibase state the race was hand timed because of a timer malfunction!!!
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Postby imnumberjuan » Sun Feb 24, 2008 7:16 pm

TJ, yeah I just noticed that equibase are 2 seconds faster than the race fractions. Nothing up on gulfstreampark.com, though on the bloodhorse they post the track fractions, to which Desormeaux is quoted as saying he thought the fractions were faster than what they were... http://tcm.bloodhorse.com/viewstory.asp?id=43787
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Postby TJ » Sun Feb 24, 2008 7:28 pm

Hi Larry, Juan...
Thanks, guess it was a malfunction, but I didn't hear anything. Quite honestly it looked like they were moving a lot faster then the teletimer posted. I imagine we'll here something soon. I wonder if the timer was off in War Pass' race as well? TJ
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Postby imnumberjuan » Sun Feb 24, 2008 7:40 pm

thanks for reading the fine print Larry! It doesn't state it under the race notes for War Pass' race as it does for the FOY.
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Postby TJ » Tue Feb 26, 2008 11:29 am

Hi,
Well, the time has been changed again regarding the FOY. Seems the outrider triggered the timer before the actual lead horse got there. Therefore all the times after the 1st 1/4 have to be correct....concerning fractions during the running from the 1/2 mile pole to the wire (minus the second plus that the timer was triggered early). What I don't understand is how DRF, Eqiubase, and others showed such a fast time the first time and now tone it down to close to what Shug's maiden winner ran. TJ
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Postby imnumberjuan » Tue Feb 26, 2008 12:15 pm

TJ,

I have always been under the impression the DRf etc have their own timers on hand, as after certain races like the Kentucky Derby, for example, they post their time as well as the official track time.
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Postby TJ » Tue Feb 26, 2008 12:48 pm

imnumberjuan wrote:TJ,

I have always been under the impression the DRf etc have their own timers on hand, as after certain races like the Kentucky Derby, for example, they post their time as well as the official track time.


Hi Juan,
Yes they use to, but I believe that is no longer done, I could be wrong though, so if anyone knows for sure I would appreciate a response. From what I understand they just time the replay. TJ
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