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As long as we're on the subject, why can't tracks report the actual finishing time of all the horses, rather than beaten lengths?
If they leave the photo-finish camera running until all the horses have crossed the wire, the "photo" gives you the finishing times for all the horses to the millisecond, since the horizontal axis is time. All you have to do is measure the distance and do a bit of math.
And even if you're not that fancy, you could position a regular, reasonably high-speed camera on the finish line and then step the video to get the times.
I'm all for high-tech solutions, but seems to me that cameras, not satellites, are the gadgets to use.
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