Equibase acknowledges and corrects Ky Derby chart errors

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Originally Posted by Left Bank

It's accurate. The guy made a mistake, and corrected as soon as he realized it. These guys have a painstaking job, yet they happen to be very good at it. Some are serious perfectionists,and it kills them when they realize they made a mistake.

He made 3 mistakes, and they were data entry mistakes. Apparently the raw observational data was accurate.

According to the article, the mistakes were brought to the chart-maker's attention by Craig Milkowski and other speed fig makers. Had it not been noticed, then the ten horses finishing 11th through 20th would have been given BSF's between about 16 to 32 points higher than they got with the corrected chart.

I doubt mistakes like this would have been noticed if it had been a routine midweek race.