Reminds me of a not uncommon error that I used to catch in the Forms charts.

Where there was a 10 length or more gap between one finisher somewhere in the pack and the next horse (Rarely the winner, but I've seen that once or twice), and it would get picked up as 1 length. So all the horses behind that one showed as running 10 lengths closer than they actually did. Plenty of times , it was never fixed.

I'd assume you guys are too smart to be fooled by that, when it happens.