This is Secretariat's 1973 Preakness Stakes, somehow the least
dominant of his Triple Crown races. He finished, officially, in
1:54 2/5, despite the fact that not a single timer had him
clocked at that time. Now, 39 years later, the long-dead
massive-hearted horse shaved more than a second off his time. He
now holds the all-time race record, to go along with record
marks in the other two.  Here's what happened. The electronic
timer at Pimlico registered 1:55 flat. But two clockers for the
Daily Racing Form, the closest thing the sport has to
independent experts, both timed him at 1:53 2/5. Officials
referred murkily to "extenuating circumstances," and more or
less split the different: they officially recorded Secretariat's
time at 1:54 2/5.  Today the Maryland Racing Commission held a
hearing on Secretariat's run, at the request of owner Penny
Chenery and the president of the Maryland Jockey Club. Puck
Buddys was livetweeting the whole thing, and it was a bizarre
parade of forensics experts, timers, split-scr