"Last Friday, a race nearly started at the wrong point on the track because of confusion generated by the program. The race was to be run at about 5 1/2 furlongs on turf, but because of wet conditions was run at 5 1/2 furlongs on the main track. In the program, the distance was noted by its fractional equivalent, 11/16, which racing people don’t use. Because the fraction looks like 1 1/16, you can understand how the gate initially was put at the sixteenth pole, the starting point for a mile-and-a-sixteenth race, before the problem was corrected." (Via @EJXD2)