Steven Crist

  1:30 pm: It's steamy, temporarily sunny, muddy and off the turf for Day 15, the day after the Whitney, the Test and perhaps the most controversial non-takedown of the year.

1:45 pm: Talk about conflicting post times: The Whitney Handicap goes off at 5:47 pm, and I'm due at a good friend's wedding at 6. The ceremony is scheduled to start just as the 11th race, the last leg of pick-6 with a $215k carryover, is being run.

1:25 pm: Refund Alert in the opener: All wagers on Scorch The Torch were refunded after replays show he was not given a fair start. The "for purse money only" reclassification of the 16-1 shot didn't drop prices by much and was the right and fair thing to do.