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Tim Y · 10-17-2021, 12:52 PM

One season Woodbine experimented with "European type" racing and carded a few contests CLOCKWISE at 5 and 5.5 furlongs on the big turf course. They proved unpopular with both the fans and especially the trainers as few of their horse could run effectively to their right and left with many going very wide and/or bolting around that large grass course turn.

It was such a big deal that the management had us all come in on a nonracing day to test out things.

In normal mode, the cameras (in effect) are photographing backwards to the flow of racing, so to do these, we had to change the direction of the scan 180 degrees. The entire apparatus on the 7th floor at Woodbine is set up to watch the races to one's left coming down the lane so you know when the last straggler gets by, but UP TRACK, there is not much room to stick you head out to see when the field arrives, so if it is strung out so I had to initiate the camera much earlier and leave on much longer to insure I captured the whole field.

10-17-2021, 12:52 PM	#6
Tim Y turf historian Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 6,455	One season Woodbine experimented with "European type" racing and carded a few contests CLOCKWISE at 5 and 5.5 furlongs on the big turf course. They proved unpopular with both the fans and especially the trainers as few of their horse could run effectively to their right and left with many going very wide and/or bolting around that large grass course turn. It was such a big deal that the management had us all come in on a nonracing day to test out things. In normal mode, the cameras (in effect) are photographing backwards to the flow of racing, so to do these, we had to change the direction of the scan 180 degrees. The entire apparatus on the 7th floor at Woodbine is set up to watch the races to one's left coming down the lane so you know when the last straggler gets by, but UP TRACK, there is not much room to stick you head out to see when the field arrives, so if it is strung out so I had to initiate the camera much earlier and leave on much longer to insure I captured the whole field. __________________ Albert Einstein:"The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind."