New Posts For Thread: Most memorable photo-finishes waits...good and badhttps://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/31881799/most-memorable-photo-finishes-waitsgood-and-badI am talking about the old days here, before digital. The judges would work from a negative if possible but when a print was called for, you knew it was really tight. For me, the most memorable was Oh so Sharp getting up to win the 1000gns in 1985. NYes AP was pleased when DR headed it albeit marginally on the run in he said after the race , desperate finish though just watched the race again for the first time in over 10 years and sort of how i remember it bu 25yrs is a long time...https://www.https://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/31881799/most-memorable-photo-finishes-waitsgood-and-bad?post_id=564918133#564918133Yes AP was pleased when DR headed it albeit marginally on the run in he said after the race , desperate finish though just watched the race again for the first time in over 10 years and sort of how i remember it bu 25yrs is a long time...https://www.Fri, 15 Aug 2025 10:29:51 -0500Edredron Bleu led for most of that race,Direct Route took it up about 100yrds out.https://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/31881799/most-memorable-photo-finishes-waitsgood-and-bad?post_id=564918117#564918117Edredron Bleu led for most of that race,Direct Route took it up about 100yrds out.Fri, 15 Aug 2025 10:23:19 -0500The 1998 Gordon Stakes was a photo finish,I was pretty sure Nedawi had not been beaten and he had been hampered so would get the race in the stewards room if a dead heat. I had a £1,000 at 1/2.The result was a dead heat and after the stewards enquirhttps://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/31881799/most-memorable-photo-finishes-waitsgood-and-bad?post_id=564918045#564918045The 1998 Gordon Stakes was a photo finish,I was pretty sure Nedawi had not been beaten and he had been hampered so would get the race in the stewards room if a dead heat. I had a £1,000 at 1/2.The result was a dead heat and after the stewards enquirFri, 15 Aug 2025 09:41:02 -0500i still have somewhere, one of the bookie board prices sheets for that 2000 QM , think I've also got the Ch hurdle from the same year as wellhttps://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/31881799/most-memorable-photo-finishes-waitsgood-and-bad?post_id=564917935#564917935i still have somewhere, one of the bookie board prices sheets for that 2000 QM , think I've also got the Ch hurdle from the same year as wellFri, 15 Aug 2025 09:01:08 -0500Yes remember that meeting well elise , if memory correct had an e/way L15 across the meeting , Edredon Bleu , Tietuchev , Looks Like Trouble and the one that let me down was the first one in the opening race of the day , none other than Best Mate whohttps://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/31881799/most-memorable-photo-finishes-waitsgood-and-bad?post_id=564917929#564917929Yes remember that meeting well elise , if memory correct had an e/way L15 across the meeting , Edredon Bleu , Tietuchev , Looks Like Trouble and the one that let me down was the first one in the opening race of the day , none other than Best Mate whoFri, 15 Aug 2025 08:58:13 -0500yes, there's something about 2m chasers, so many great ones and there were some proper stars in that erahttps://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/31881799/most-memorable-photo-finishes-waitsgood-and-bad?post_id=564917927#564917927yes, there's something about 2m chasers, so many great ones and there were some proper stars in that eraFri, 15 Aug 2025 08:50:13 -0500AP was brilliant on Edredon Bleu tbf , horse needed a target to aim at until virtually on the line and he rode it to perfectionhttps://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/31881799/most-memorable-photo-finishes-waitsgood-and-bad?post_id=564917871#564917871AP was brilliant on Edredon Bleu tbf , horse needed a target to aim at until virtually on the line and he rode it to perfectionFri, 15 Aug 2025 08:29:44 -0500Was on Direct Route in the 2000 Chmpn Chse.Thought he'd won in real time.i watched that recently and i still think he won, i was on the 3rd so fecked anyhowhttps://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/31881799/most-memorable-photo-finishes-waitsgood-and-bad?post_id=564917847#564917847Was on Direct Route in the 2000 Chmpn Chse.Thought he'd won in real time.i watched that recently and i still think he won, i was on the 3rd so fecked anyhowFri, 15 Aug 2025 08:20:01 -0500just remembered another loser where i thought i won.....Strands of Gold in the 3 mile novice at Cheltenham, may have been called the sun alliance back then.....cross master at 20s beat it in a photo finish....Strands of Gold would have been 1.20 on hhttps://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/31881799/most-memorable-photo-finishes-waitsgood-and-bad?post_id=564917835#564917835just remembered another loser where i thought i won.....Strands of Gold in the 3 mile novice at Cheltenham, may have been called the sun alliance back then.....cross master at 20s beat it in a photo finish....Strands of Gold would have been 1.20 on hFri, 15 Aug 2025 08:11:27 -0500sageform...Eddery used the whip twenty-eight times in that race and this, I am reliably informed, was the catalyst for the UK racing authorities to start taking whip usage seriously before the animal rights people enlisted the general public in theirhttps://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/31881799/most-memorable-photo-finishes-waitsgood-and-bad?post_id=564917607#564917607sageform...Eddery used the whip twenty-eight times in that race and this, I am reliably informed, was the catalyst for the UK racing authorities to start taking whip usage seriously before the animal rights people enlisted the general public in theirFri, 15 Aug 2025 06:39:23 -0500