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Originally Posted by deelo
It would make sense for the center to be the standard... but the reality is that the actual finish line is wherever the camera is truly aligned parallel to the mirror.
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True that would work as long as BOTH point were EXACTLY perpendicular to one another and was used as a STANDARD for all the races.
Because the mirror on the main course (Woodbine) is about 8 inches beyond the finishing POST, a lot of people misjudge the finish order and I have had to show disgruntled owners and trainers (who came up to the roof and yelled at the steward) many times, the image DIRECTLY off my computer screen what the order of finish was..We had one case of a fellow even hiring a lawyer (who, sadly did not know a thing as to how the system worked) to argue his case ....Waste of time, effort, and $$$$$
A little trick the stewards showed me was to place the laterally moving perpendicular line over the PLACE horse to show that the nose of the winner was out front.
