Oops, again, Jerry.

They did not split the variant. From Friedman:

"I can see that in my post above that I refer to two previous 6f races when discussing the level toward the end of the day and it might be mistakenly inferred that we treated the routes and sprints differently on Preakness day. In fact, we treated them the same, but we did have a drying out slide--mostly in the first half of the card."