This is a crazy horse racing story.

[tzipi]

"In the summer of 1873, two horses, Bing Aman and Mart Jordan, finished in a dead heat at Gravesend Race Track in New York. Despite the sizzling temperature, the horses were sent around the 1 3/4-mi. track again to determine a winner. Again they ran a dead heat. It happened again on the third running, and the fourth as well (or so it appeared). But the judges ruled Bing Aman the winner by a nose. The crowd didn't see it that way and protested the judgment with a riot that destroyed much of the track."


© 1975 - 1981 by David Wallechinsky & Irving

[joanied]

Those were the good ol' days:lol: :lol: :lol:

[46zilzal]

"In the summer of 1873, two horses, Bing Aman and Mart Jordan, finished in a dead heat at Gravesend Race Track in New York. Despite the sizzling temperature, the horses were sent around the 1 3/4-mi. track again to determine a winner. Again they ran a dead heat. It happened again on the third running, and the fourth as well (or so it appeared). But the judges ruled Bing Aman the winner by a nose. The crowd didn't see it that way and protested the judgment with a riot that destroyed much of the track."


© 1975 - 1981 by David Wallechinsky & Irving
Without the aid of a photo finish camera, placing stewards, FAR away from the finish had to call the outcome. A study retroactively carried out by the Jockey Club, once the standard photo finish was around a few years, showed that dead heats decreased almost 100% from the time the judges EYES determined them and the more accurate CAMERA determined them.

A few weeks ago, our camera malfunctioned and the stewards had to used the video of the race to call TWO dead heats in one contest because the EYE cannot discriminate like the camera. In the old days this was common.

[tzipi]

Without the aid of a photo finish camera, placing stewards, FAR away from the finish had to call the outcome. A study retroactively carried out by the Jockey Club, once the standard photo finish was around a few years, showed that dead heats decreased almost 100% from the time the judges EYES determined them and the more accurate CAMERA determined them.

A few weeks ago, our camera malfunctioned and the stewards had to used the video of the race to call TWO dead heats in one contest because the EYE cannot discriminate like the camera. In the old days this was common.

Oh yeah, I totally agree and figured that but for the horses to hit the line together every time! :eek:

[CincyHorseplayer]

Those were the good ol' days:lol: :lol: :lol:


And yeah and ain't we cruel these days to whip a horse with which the human equivalent would be getting hit in the rump with a pencil and these horses ran 7 miles in 1 day!!!!:D

[tzipi]

I want those horses in the HOF for what they did. :)

[deathandgravity]

Wait? They did this without a synthetic track?
How is that possible?