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Single-exposure photo-finish images are made by a camera positioned at the finish line; this was initially applied to horse racing. The camera's shutter, which captures 136 images each second, is triggered as a horse breaks a thin thread on the race track.
Sierra Leone and Forever Young closed late, but were not able to catch Mystik Dan, who held on to win the race by a nose in the race's first three-horse photo finish since the 1947 Kentucky Derby. Sierra Leone and Forever Young repeatedly bumped each other down the stretch, but neither horse's jockey claimed a foul.
A high-speed camera mounted at the finish line takes photos — and lots of them — to create a composite photo of the finish that allows judges to determine how the horses place, Kimber Murray ...
The system is commonly used in track and field as well as athletic performance testing, horse racing, dog racing, bicycle racing, rowing and auto racing. In these fields a photo finish is used. It is also used in competitive swimming, for which the swimmers themselves record a finish time by touching a touchpad at the end of a race. In order to ...
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The first triple dead heat in harness racing: Patchover, Payne Hall, and Penny Maid at Freehold Raceway (USA), 1953. This list of dead heat horse races includes wins between two or more horses, where the winner could not be determined by a photo finish.
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Once a steeplechase jockey, Tagg (who grew up in Abington, Pennsylvania and won his first race in 1972 at Liberty Bell Park) was a journeyman who had been on the racing scene for over 30 years. The victory by Funny Cide made Tagg the first trainer to win the Derby in his first attempt since Neil Drysdale saddled Fusaichi Pegasus to win the 2000 ...