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Single-exposure photo-finish images were made by a camera that was positioned at the finish line and initially applied to horse racing. The camera’s shutter which captured 136 images each second was triggered as a horse broke a thin thread on the race track.
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 ...
Fierceness strode into the Kentucky Derby as the overwhelming favorite, but Mystik Dan took the roses in a three-horse photo finish, winning the 150th Kentucky Derby on Saturday in a stunning upset.
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.
Malathaat, Blue Stripe and Clairiere go all the way to the wire to decide day’s closest race at Keeneland. ‘It was just inches.’ Three-horse photo finish decides thrilling Breeders’ Cup ...
Before 134,476 fans, the largest crowd to see a horse race in the United States to that date, Sham ripped two teeth out on the starting gate at the Kentucky Derby. Although bleeding from the start, Sham finished second behind Secretariat, who came away with a 2 1 ⁄ 2 length victory running 1:59 2 ⁄ 5 for the 1 1 ⁄ 4 miles, the first horse ...
A track for live horse racing in suburban Seattle turned prehistoric over the weekend as more than 200 people ran down the track cloaked in inflatable Tyrannosaurus rex dinosaur costumes. The 2023 ...
It commemorates one of John Henry's most famous finishes; in 1981, at the inaugural Arlington Million, John Henry won over 5-year-old The Bart in a photo finish. On December 11, 1983, John Henry became the first racehorse to surpass $4 million in career earnings when he won the Hollywood Turf Cup Stakes with jockey Chris McCarron at Hollywood ...