drf: Past-posting incident reported

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Golden Gate Fields | Posted 11/2/2009, 4:11 pm

Past-posting incident reported

By Matt Hegarty
Daily Racing Form

Golden Gate Fields has forwarded information to the California Horse Racing Board and other racing investigatory agencies about a possible past-posting incident on its third race on the Sept. 26 card, according to officials of the track and regulatory organizations.

Robert Hartman, the general manager of Golden Gate, said on Monday that the track received the first notification of possible past-posting on the race last week, when officials of Keeneland Racecourse presented information to racing authorities about a bettor being able to place wagers after the race had started. Hartman said that the track had already known a stop-betting command issued by Golden Gate Fields's stewards had malfunctioned for the race, but the track was not previously aware that any wagers had been placed after the race started.

"We've only heard one report, and that was from the mutuel department at Keeneland in the last week," Hartman said.

Curtis Linnell, the director of wagering analysis for the Thoroughbred Racing Protective Bureau, said on Monday that a computer system maintained by the bureau to analyze betting patterns at racetracks did not show any suspicious betting patterns on the race. Because it was not possible to determine when the race went off, the TRPB has not been able to ascertain how much was bet after the race started, Linnell said.

"We couldn't find any significant spike in cashing, no significant spike in betting, and we didn't find any significant deviation in payouts from the closing odds," Linnell said.

The bet-processing company that handles Golden Gate's wagering is Scientific Games Racing. Officials for the company did not reply to requests for comment by Monday afternoon.

According to Hartman, a back-up system employed by Scientific Games to stop racing in the event of a malfunction in the stewards' stand eventually closed the pools, though he could not say when the back-up system issued the command.

CHRB officials did not immediately return calls on Monday.

- additional reporting by Chuck Dybdal

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