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"The BHA says a project is underway to roll out a revised method of measuring course distances on jump tracks to bring it into line with protocol for the Flat, whereby measurements are taken six feet from the inside rail and all starts are professionally surveyed to the nearest yard."
If anyone is using a Garmin Forerunner Watch – make sure that you run " six feet from the inside rail " ! FFS
"The BHA says a project is underway to roll out a revised method of measuring course distances on jump tracks to bring it into line with protocol for the Flat, whereby measurements are taken six feet from the inside rail and all starts are professionally surveyed to the nearest yard."
Yes, BHA are clueless as to what is going on. No professional surveyor would be the 10s of yards they have run flat races at Warwick and Lingfield AW this year alone. No course has even set the furlong markers in the right place either which is even easier to manage. They just don’t give a toss because they know the BHA will do absolutely nothing.
It does not matter if you have a new rule measuring 2 yards or 2 miles from the rail – the point they just don’t get is that no course ever measures any distance and then only until well after Twitter points out yet another error and the media pick up on it. Action by embarrassment, not action because you want to do the best job for racing’s integrity.
The Flat was measured professionally for the first and last time in 2 centuries in the 1990s. (That is why race distances have odd yards added to the official distances as they could not even be bothered to reset the start to full furlongs. The jumps have never been professionally measured.
They cannot even work out that their new rule to advise the public on rail movements still does not correct the fact that the advertised distances without rail movements are wrong in the first place. More than 2/3 of courses don’t even attempt to comply with the BHA October 2014 rule. Still BHA does nothing to enforce its own rules.
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