HR-- I was out yesterday, first golf of the year (awful). Trying again tomorrow, if I can walk.

As I said before, we usually run about 3 1/2 faster than Ragozin, and he got this race about 2 slow, so we should have all the horses about 5 1/2 faster, if everybody got the ground and lengths beaten right. As David Patent pointed out in an earlier post there are significant discrepencies from that, so yes, somebody made mistakes ASIDE from getting the race as a whole wrong. Our ground can be checked pretty easily by anyone with a tape of the race-- our sheets are posted, and the paths (slightly rounded off) are on the running line. If it ain't us-- and since we had 3 guys look at it I'm pretty sure it's not-- it's them.

Jimbo-- the differences in figures in the Derby (and other races of the Derby horses, like the Blue Grass and SA Derby) can play out in the reads of horses other than SS, and in races other than the Preakness. As it says over the football field at West Point, "The seeds sown here, on other fields on other days, will bear the fruits of victory".