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Originally Posted by Jeff P
As far as I am aware both HK and Aus do not use a runup. (Somebody please correct me if I am wrong.)
To borrow a phrase from the way Beyer so eloquently put it a Washington Post article back in 2014:
Both HK and Aus "run races at exact distances and time them from the start."
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That's also true in Europe, and likely everywhere else in the world except for North America. Carroll has a good probable explanation that ThoroughBred racing and Quarter Horse racing here are in competition for who has the fastest horses. By giving T-Breds a running start they appear to be as fast or faster than Quarter Horse races that are timed from the gate.
Thoro-Graph and the Sheets claims to time the races from the gate for it's ratings.
All human track events are timed from the start. This whole idea of run-ups just introduces errors.
