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How is this NOT a Dead Heat? See Photos
How is this NOT a Dead Heat? See Photos
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  Here's Dave Smith's sacking photos from a few years ago (purely to add a bit of interest) |
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love a conspiracy , enlace won fair and square.
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Dave Smith should have been effing shot for that Kempton call.Betvictor refused to pay out on the 'real' winner whereas most of the other bookmakers did the honourable thing.You can guess who I backed it with ! Thought about taking Smith to court but in the end just dropped it.
This race not controversial imo..Enlace rightly called the winner. |
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http://media.britishhorseracing.com/images/photofinish/hireswatermark/2015_18012_0.jpg
op's images make it look dh, but this one on the bha site shows a clear pixel gap to the nose of the second that you don't see in the blurred one |
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thx onlooker, forgot all about that.
But surely it makes sense, when no gap between horses can reasonably be identified just to call a dead-heat? That way owners, jockeys, trainers and punters can all go home reasonably happy. dead heats are much more common in poor light for that very reason personally I think the dividing line is much too narrow and haven't seen real evidence that it fits with the expected margin of error from equipment etc. |
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^ Agree - sugarfoot -
- and as I posted on Page 1 - most especially given that - at the other end, the Start - the 'Luck of the DRAW' for Stalls positions is entirely Random For example - In a race where Low Numbers are undeniably favoured - If a horse UNfavourably Drawn 14 is then beaten by just a mere PIXEL by a horse FAVOURABLY Drawn in Stall ONE - How unjust is that? |
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Taking Einsteins theory into account : Time is relative to speed and distance. If the photo technology worked at the speed of light - then a pixel difference might be correct - but what we see is a time sliced photo that does not work at the speed of light nor take into account the speed of the horses and the distances from the horse to the gadgets, or indeed the distance between the horses. Anything that close should be a DEAD HEAT imo.
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