NYRA Super Snafu

[jnunan4759]

Was a weird situation the other day where they ran an official on an incorrect superfecta. NYRA did announce the error and paid both, but they could have been more clear on what the remedy was.

As far as I know, it's still unclear whether they split the pool or paid each out as winners and took a loss. The right thing would have been to pay each of them at true payoffs and take a loss. If it was a tote error, you could get them to pay. However, it's not right if you had the correct 4 to split the pot because of a reporting error.

That wasn't made clear how it was distributed. They weren't big payoffs and not big pools, so we're not talking tons of money. However, NYRA was quick to announce the problem and to tell everybody they'd get paid, but how ? If I had the wrong payout, I got some free money. But if I had the correct 4, did the payout for those tickets come out of my pool ? Should my ticket have paid a bunch more ? Those are things We didn't know.

Mistakes like this are extremely rare. Apparently the incorrect tickets were cashing before they realized.

Sometimes if your systems mess up, you have to eat it. Like in any business. Just think we need more explanation.

If I had the correct 4 and they paid the incorrect 4 out of my pool, I'd be upset. Or, if they split the pool, like a DH.