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Originally Posted by cj
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First race at Delta, originally declared a dead heat by the placing judges, overruled by the stewards (rightly so in my opinion). Dead heat was on the board for at least a few minutes.
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Long ago when I worked as a placing judge, the two senior judges sometimes enfuriated me by voting to dead heat races involving an extremely narrow, but discernable, winner. Their mantra: "dead heat is the safe call, " spouted not only from belief that dividing the win would satisfy both camps, and thus prevent the inevitable doubt and challenges resultant from making decisive calls on close finishes, but from the photo guy's willingness to artificially thicken the superimposed "finish line" to make it appear that both horses hit it simultaneously.
My frustration reached a point at which I defiantly refused to dead heat ANY race, instead contending that even a hair's width constituted a win.
