By the way, did anyone see that Turf feature at Hallandale....lol
Now they got a turf course out of control.
Rick Lang said he would call JB on the phone tomorrow to see what the hand timed speed was for that race.The teletimer seemed to be out of whack.
Marty McGee speculates in DRF that the timer is almost certainly off:
\"* A timing system that almost surely has glitches. Fractions for the ninth race, a one-mile turf race for third-level allowance horses, were as follows: 22.91 seconds, 44.80, and 1:07.76, and the final time of 1:31.41 would be a world record for a mile on turf. The clocking for the other turf race, the sixth, was not as outrageous (fractions of 23.23, 48.17, 1:12.04, and 1:35.93, and a final time of 1:47.51 for 1 1/8 miles). The main-track times seemed within reason, too.\"
Any half-assed figure maker could have told him the timer was either off for both races, or neither. For those horses, the 6th race time was blazing as well. But what do I know, he\'s the paid writer? :(
Yeah,
The hosts have to love this. Horses coming in from different circuits on a surface with no history and bad race timers....lol
I read Bailey gathered up a handful of rocks off the main there as well.
CtC