Not bad... that's an explanation that did not occur to me.

Yeah, I'd love to hear what they have to say. I may or may not go into what Paul says they do-- it sounds so crazy that I'm concerned both about defaming them (believe it or not) and looking like an idiot if it's not what they do. Short form, they MAY not take the official beaten lengths at face value. Problem is, there ain't no way that 2 length gap is off by 3 lengths.

I think we would all agree by now that if they had caught something we missed they would have beaten me over the head with it. Which leaves us where we started, with a 3 length error in the Ragozin figures for either 3 horses or 15 horses in the Kentucky Derby, or a smaller error for all 18.



TGJB