[Tim Y]

Oops I switched two bits of data: when the SCAN RATE is too slow, the wheels on a sulky look ovoid north to south as the image is moving through the camera LONGER and stretches it out more...Too fast, and the images compact and the wheels look ovoid another and south. OFTEN the start car (moving much faster than the scan) would get into the rear of the scan and compress to be shorter than a horse!

I once asked the stewards if they knew of ANY WAY to cheat the camera and they only knew one. In the old wet mount film reading, a wire was brought across the screen perpendicularly (to establish as a line to differentiate placings.) To paraphrase:" in the old days when we read the wet mount, you could create a "dead heat" by using a THICKER wire hence two noses would be on the line together but it was just an optical illusion and had very limited use. Only found it a few times a little meetings."