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Title: TG---GP 2/16 R-9
Post by: bdhsheets@hotmail.com on February 26, 2002, 12:27:32 PM
Hi:

There has been talk there may have been a timer malfunction in this race with Mountain Forum, High Star etc.

Did your guy at GP find any difference?

Thanks!

Title: Re: Timer malfunction GP 2/16
Post by: TGJB on February 26, 2002, 05:17:04 PM
bdhsheets wrote:
>
> Hi:
>
> There has been talk there may have been a timer malfunction
> in this race with Mountain Forum, High Star etc.
>
> Did your guy at GP find any difference?
>
> Thanks!
>
>

TG--Not in the final time, which is all he measures. The posted fractions were unbelievably slow.

I will say that I took off a lot more from
that race than the surrounding ones. This could be a function of pace, mis-timing, or the hallacious changing wet-fast track that day.

I was forced to leave boxes for the following race, which contained 8 first-time starters, and 3 horses that had run once. If Ragozin made a figure for that race, I would love to hear him defend it.