GP January 9th -- a bit out of the ordinary
 

While it's not out of the ordinary to find HALF splits that are faster than QTR splits going a MILE or even 7F on the DIRT at GP, it's unusual to see it going lesser distances.

On 1/09 there were two such cases

Race 2 6.5F 12.5k claiming

qtr 22.79 half 22.74

and

Race 5 6F 32k-30k claiming

qtr 22.86 half 22.71

while the faster halfs can be explained, somewhat, by the slow quarters, nonetheless, this is unusual ---assuming, of course, that the GP timer was accurate (a HUGE assumption, it seems).

It was screwed up the other day, I can tell you that.

That was pretty funny. :)

Was hoping to get > 2:1 on that horse out of the 5th (that had gate issues and actually gained INTO the HALF) today at TAM. Wasn't to be.

Yeah, it was. :D

I think the times at Gulfstream and Santa Anita are screwy