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And re-timing races is not meaningful. I just saw that TPD took the time to show Secretariat in 1973 vs American Pharaoh in 2015 and it triggered the previous idea.
Its based in the way time is calculated by lat/long lines.
Essentially the finish line at Saratoga has coordinates, 43.071011, -73.766647
( yes those are the real #"s) and real #'s where the 6F start line is.
43.073535, -73.767634
Fractions of a degree are equal to X seconds. or milliseconds. So since we have the ending and starting coordinates, and each has it own time, I'm theorizing we could re-time races based upon that. Only because we have a time stamp of exact date and time the race, we could go back to the atomic clock.
We know what time it really was *6 furlongs away from 43.071011, -73.766647
on January 10th, 2012.
I'm working on pool data and hope to share that with you and anybody else interested as well.
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