Drawing Races...any experts in the area?

[SoCalMan2]

Has anybody ever heard of the following occurring?

1) a race in the condition book overfills
2) racing secretary issues the overnights with a main body and AEs and each horse\'s preference date listed.
3) The next day, the racing secretary calls and said he listed the wrong preference date for a horse deep in the AEs by mistake, so to correct the mistake one horse who drew into the main body and all AEs inside the horse with the wrong preference date shall be scratched to correct the racing secretary\'s mistake (unless there are other scratches out of the main body in which case horses will be spared having to be scratched in post position order).

I have never heard of such a thing before.  Seems crazy to be forced to scratch in order to correct a racing secretary mistake.

[SoCalMan2]

SoCalMan2 Wrote:
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> Has anybody ever heard of the following
> occurring?
>
> 1) a race in the condition book overfills
> 2) racing secretary issues the overnights with a
> main body and AEs and each horse\'s preference date
> listed.
> 3) The next day, the racing secretary calls and
> said he listed the wrong preference date for a
> horse deep in the AEs by mistake, so to correct
> the mistake one horse who drew into the main body
> and all AEs inside the horse with the wrong
> preference date shall be scratched to correct the
> racing secretary\'s mistake (unless there are other
> scratches out of the main body in which case
> horses will be spared having to be scratched in
> post position order).
>
> I have never heard of such a thing before.  Seems
> crazy to be forced to scratch in order to correct
> a racing secretary mistake.

BTW, this also stinks for people connected to the main body horse who bought airplane tickets and made other non-refundable commitments between when the race was published and when the racing secretary called to mention the horse may be needed to be scratched to accommodate the racing secretary\'s mistake.