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Fountain of Youth time revised again On Monday, the fractions and final time for Sunday's Fountain of Youth S. (G2) were adjusted for the second time, with Gulfstream Park's official final time for the 1 1/8-mile race won by COOL COAL MAN (Mineshaft) now to be listed as 1:50.07. The official fractions for the event are :24.03 for the first quarter, :47.62 for the half-mile, 1:11.52 for six furlongs and 1:36.32 for the mile on the fast track. Bernie Hettel, Gulfstream Park's Racing Operations Manager, timed the race. "I looked at it three times, hand timing it each time, and those are the fractions and final that we keep coming up with," he said. "As this was hand-timed, there may be some incremental differences from clocker to clocker, but we are satisfied with what we have found." According to Gulfstream Park, the timing of the race was put under review when it was determined that an outrider and his pony, stationed about 20 feet in front of the starting gate, crossed in front of the timer and tripped it before the lead horse reached the mark. The first published version of the chart listed the fractions as a dawdling :25 3/5, :49 1/5, 1:13 and 1:38 1/5, with a final time of 1:51 4/5. That was later revised, with the second version of the chart reporting much faster splits of :23 2/5, :46 4/5, 1:10 4/5 and 1:37 en route to a significantly quicker final time of 1:49 2/5. The final revision, issued Monday afternoon, lies between those two extremes.
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