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October 3, 1953 – at Freehold Raceway, between Patchover, Payne Hall, and Penny Maid; the first triple dead heat in harness racing for a win. [14] November 3, 1956 – in the Hotham Handicap at Flemington Racecourse, Melbourne, between Fighting Force, Ark Royal, and Pandie Sun. [15] July 3, 1957 – at Hollywood Park Racetrack, between Joe's ...
Photo finishes make it less likely that officials will declare a race a dead heat. Finish line photos are still used in nearly every modern racing sport. Although some sports use electronic equipment to track the racers during a race, a photo is considered the most important evidence in selecting the winner.
An extremely rare photo finish triple dead heat, recorded in a 1953 harness race at Freehold Raceway. Freehold Raceway was the site of the first ever photo finish triple dead heat win in a harness race. Double, triple and even quadruple dead heats were more commonly awarded in horse racing when finishes were judged by the naked eye in real time.
Original file (1,039 × 1,349 pixels, file size: 1.62 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Wikimedia Commons. Description Triple dead-heat.jpg. The first triple dead heat in harness racing: Patchover (Ed Myer), Payne Hall (F. Albertson) and Penny Maid (E. Beede) in a Freehold Raceway (USA) race. Date. 3 October 1953. Source.
Here’s a look at how people and animals around the world are trying to beat the extreme heat. A polar bear cools down in ice that was brought to its enclosure on a hot and sunny day at the zoo ...
Fans witnessed Suffolk Downs' only triple dead heat ever on Dec. 31, 1981. 12/31/81 Great Combination, Dawn's Count and Needachant cannot be separated at the finish wire, registering the track's first and only triple dead heat in the last race of the final day of the year. The triple-heater is only the 17th in North American racing history ...
[116] [29] Many of Catherina's races were heat races, and she therefore actually faced the starter 298 times and was the first past the finish line 136 times, including two disqualifications, one walkover, and two dead-heats. Pan Zareta, the "winningest mare in American history" 197 – Chorisbar [110] 160 – Yaucono [117] 152 – Condado [111]
The Carter Handicap is the only American Thoroughbred stakes race in which a triple dead heat for a win occurred when Brownie, Bossuet and Wait A Bit crossed the finish line at the same time in 1944. [2] There was another dead heat between two horses in 1977, a year when the number of entrants resulted in the race being split into two divisions ...