Deliberate obfuscation

Rock hadn't seen this sort of crowd at Oaklawn Park since the late 1980s, and thirty or more reporters were there for the Arkansas Derby, packed into a new, ultra-modern press box. The weather was horrid. Rain fell in torrents and cut through fog so thick it was difficult to distinguish one horse from another in the post parade.

Once the race was underway, Rock and everyone else in the press box had trouble seeing through row after row of computer monitors. Midway through the race, no one had yet determined the order of the field. It seemed as if this obfuscation was deliberate.