So I was live on track this afternoon. Very curious how they were going to set up the camera system. Turns out they mounted a small camera at the very top of the light post that was already in place. Someone from he TV control room likely moves it back and forth. Looks good on TV, you can actually tell close finishes now.
They didn't move the announcers booth or anything else in that area so the announcer will have trouble calling close finishes unless he uses the TV monitor instead. But it is much better now that they got this done.
My father didn't care for the shorter stretch as he didn't think horses from the back were moving early enough to get in proper contention.
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