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An awful air crash with no survivors and the plane was on fire before it hit the ground.
If a cover was put over the wrong winning post? Would we then be saying they should take photos from both?
If there is a rule that a finishing post needs to be at right angles with the final fence, is there also a rule a fence needs to be at right angles with the course?
If the final fence and hurdle were at very slight angles to the courses concerned; then the one and only winning post can be at right angles to both hurdle and fence.Value Is EverythingI guess they could always put a sign on the top of each winning post – one saying Chase or C and the other Hurdles or H
I searched racing’s rules and could not find John Berry’s reference to the 90 degrees V racing line
Steeplechasing, if only they would use a simple solution like a bag, or similar.
Sadly I think they’ll spend more time than necessary on this, and they’ll unveil some convoluted solution that they’ve spent an obscene amount of unnecessary hours on.
I do feel sorry for the course in all this.
This mistake was human error.
Therefore what happens if there’s human error with a “bag or similar”, Kris?
What if the wrong photo finish is covered?
A bag would surely be just as likely to bring an error – if not more so – than having two photogaph points and the wrong photo used. At least in this case they can put things right. If a bag was used there’d be no photo to put the error right.Only way that I can see of taking out human error is by only having one winning post… And if yjere is no rule about having the finish at right angles with the last fence/hurdle – then one finishing line is very possible.
Considering how jockeys need to change direction at the end of a race due to the finishing line being on a spur at Ludlow and (I believe) Huntingdon (or even Newbury and Aintree) I can’t see why they can’t have one finishing line… And if the rules have to change then DO IT! Once upon a time there used to be a rule the finishing straight had to be a mile long. That rule was changed and so should this.
Value Is EverythingI had to get over a gate the other week
and managed to get my hoodie caught up at the top so when I jumped down I was hanging
ripped a hole in it
Blackbeard to conquer the World
Thinking about it, surely the best solution to this problem would be the INTRODUCTION OF A THIRD WINNING POST?
This post (let’s call it post C) could be situated equidistant to the current two posts (let’s call them post A and post B) to create a composite image resulting in the glaringly straightforward equation of:
(windist = (((X x 0.333rec) + (Y x 0.333rec) + (Z x 0.333rec)) / 3)
where X = winning distance from post A,
and Y = winning distance from post B,
and Z = winning distance from post C.This image would then produce a NET OVERALL RESULT of the race in question, whether chase or hurdle.
The chances of anything whatsoever going wrong with this perfectly simple workaround would be basically nil.
Mike
If you get a big, feck-off bag, which everyone can see on the wrong post you deserve to be filling bags at Asda (and I doubt you’d even qualify for that).
Get the bag, I say. Very easy sponsor opportunity for Specsavers
Mike, the result you’d get with 5 winning posts would be even more accurate. Leave the two winning posts A and B where they are now. Then halve them as you said with a winning post C and then use winning posts D and E to halve the distances between A and C and B and C. You would have 5 winning posts within a 30 yard range and whatever horse is more often in front wins the race. Bookies could generate more turnover thanks to a higher chance of photo finishes. But hey, these are the thoughts of a simple man.
I think Dessie would love this idea, commentating such races would be more fun for him.You would have 5 winning posts within a 30 yard range and whatever horse is more often in front wins the race
Sensible. You would in effect have a ‘best of five’ situation.
We could call them ‘The People’s Winning Posts’.
Mike
I am more than comfortable with two thank you. It’s like a marriage. It takes two baby
Mike, you’re the only forumite who can actually read my mind.
Gamble, the fivesome is the fun one.
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