The New York Racing Association said yesterday it will pay off the correct ($800) and incorrect ($1,073) superfecta payouts in Thursday’s ninth race that resulted from the placing judges confusing the fourth-place finisher, the No. 13 horse, with the No. 10 horse, who finished ninth.
The incorrect order (8-14-5-10) posted after the race was declared official at 5:22 p.m. Three minutes later, payoffs were frozen by the tote system when track announcer Tom Durkin and Equibase chart caller Jack Kelly alerted the mutuels department of the mistake. By 5:49, NYRA was paying off on the correct order of finish (8-14-5-13).
Though state rules stipulate that “if any change be made in the order of finish of a race after the result is so declared official, it shall not affect the payoff,” NYRA is paying off on both results. It could cost them up to $82,500, the net amount of the superfecta pool.
