My take on the timing error from a past post I made here:
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Preakness - you have a dispute between the timer (1:55) and the Daily Racing Form time (1:53 2/5) .. the DRF time is obviously correct because the 1:55 time comes with a 25 flat opening quarter in the charts. The timer was no doubt tripped early .. as three cheap claiming races in the day all featured 23 4/5 opening quarters at 8.5fs. Anyone believe the early pace in those cheap claimers was really 8 lengths faster than the Preakness?
One race prior to the Preakness - Port Conway Lane won an alw race at 8.5fs in 1:43.80 (33 Beyer points slower than DRF Preakness winning time) - one race after the Preakness Buffalo Run won a 4K starter alw for older males at 9f in 1:51.00 (38 Beyer points slower than Preakness)
Buffalo Run was a rock solid 10K claimer with a 2nd and 3rd in recent alw tries. Port Conway Lane had been 1st or 2nd in each of his last 4 recent tries at the alw level. While not stakes caliber horses - these are useful older males.
Based on the DRF Time the figures look like this:
Preakness: Secretariat 123
ALW for older males: Port Conway Lane 90
4k Starter for older males: Buffalo Run 85
9.5K claimer for older males at 8.5f: 1.5 length winner gets 80
5K claimer for older males: 4.5 length winner gets 78
3K claimer for older females: 0.75 length winner gets 63
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