Thanks for posting that.
From the
article:
Quote:
According to the website theracingbiz.com, 10 track records were set at Laurel from Feb. 3, 2019 through June 8, 2019, after the GPS system was installed. Laurel clocker Jack Harmon told the website that he continued to use the teletimer system as a backup and found that in all 10 cases the Gmax time was faster than what was recorded by the teletimer. Laurel briefly stopped using the Gmax system, but is once again using it.
Moss said that there have been instances where the Beyer figure for a race winner has changed by as many as 20 points after the official time was adjusted and the Beyer team went with its hand timing.
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20 Beyer points.
I know I've posted this question before:
But why aren't tracks (especially those with new timing systems) sanity checking final times from video prior to sending chart data to Equibase?
Not hand timing. But using the procedure CJ has posted about where you freeze recorded race video when the nose of the winner breaks the plane of the wire, rewind the video by the race time generated by the timing system - freeze the video at that point - and LOOK where the horses are.
If the horses are not where they should be:
You will know right then and there that time generated by the timing system is off.
-jp
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