Why bet before a horse race when you can wait until it has already started? Seven and a half years after the 2002 Breeders Cup Pick Six scandal led Andrew Beyer to write about widespread assumptions among horseplayers that races were being past-posted, Bloodhorse.com reports that there are still documented instances of wagering after the start of horse races. And who knows how many go undiscovered or are swept under the rug by track and tote officials who don’t want to upset the apple cart?

Lexington, Kentucky bettor Mike Maloney has been conducting a one-man crusade to correct this situation. Maloney points out that tracks do not record the time that gates open to the second, it is only reported to the minute. In the Bloodhorse article linked to above, Maloney correctly comments “that this could happen this deep into the simulcasting age is just mind-boggling.”