39 years after the fact, the greatest horse that ever raced has his time changed in Leg 2 of his . . [View all]

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. . . Triple Crown.

There has always been a controversy about his time in Pimlico's Preakness Stakes race. It was recorded at 1:55, but two hand timers in the press box had him at 1:53.5. At the time, there was talk of an electronic timer malfunction, but it was never provable. Until now.

Today, after a great deal of frame by frame analysis of the race, his official time was changed to 1:53 flat.

I'm glad his owner, Penny Chenery, although now using a walker, was able to be there in Baltimore to see her horse's record established. He is now the record holder of each Triple Crown track's fastest Triple Crown run. (For the record, the fastest Preakness time at 1 3/16 was Farma Way at 1:52 in 1991.)

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2012/06/19/bloomberg_articlesM5VT7Z6TTDTE01-M5VYM.DTL

Watch this video. It has all three races. Stay with it to the end. You'll see an amazing lead and hear that famous call "He's now moving like a tremendous machine."

Indeed he was.

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