SoCalMan2 Wrote:
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> Has anybody ever heard of the following
> occurring?
>
> 1) a race in the condition book overfills
> 2) racing secretary issues the overnights with a
> main body and AEs and each horse\'s preference date
> listed.
> 3) The next day, the racing secretary calls and
> said he listed the wrong preference date for a
> horse deep in the AEs by mistake, so to correct
> the mistake one horse who drew into the main body
> and all AEs inside the horse with the wrong
> preference date shall be scratched to correct the
> racing secretary\'s mistake (unless there are other
> scratches out of the main body in which case
> horses will be spared having to be scratched in
> post position order).
>
> I have never heard of such a thing before. Seems
> crazy to be forced to scratch in order to correct
> a racing secretary mistake.
BTW, this also stinks for people connected to the main body horse who bought airplane tickets and made other non-refundable commitments between when the race was published and when the racing secretary called to mention the horse may be needed to be scratched to accommodate the racing secretary\'s mistake.
