What you need to keep in mind when relying on their site is that, based on the richiebee story, NY is still using the "honor system" for this information. Thus, concientious & honest trainers like Motion make the info avialable sufficiently in advance for it to make the late changes section on the site. For the rest, a guy with a clipboard goes from trainer to trainer in the paddock & simple asks if there is anything to report, & that info is then relayed to Durkin & is what is announced & appears on the Sar video feed. Maybe that's why I read recently that Dahlman has taken to describing his shoe info as "proprietary." If you're looking for a fairly comprehensive primer on the subject, go to kentucky.com, & do an archive search for a 5/7/05 article entitled "How To Help A Hoove" by Jim Warren.

richiebee: The Pomeroy race was not one I downloaded Sat, but mid-morning I got what I thought was a mildly amusing call from sar from the nationwide sponsor of a automobile sales promotion which includes free doughnuts. He thought it important that I know that the five large doughnuts Biacone ate set a new No. Am. record,& that Patrick told him that the King's Bishop was the real goal & that he therefore didn't have his charge fully cranked up, which now seems like it might be the reason that only one & not two longstanding records was broken on Sat.