Rabbit for Mine That Bird?

[the_fat_man]

Originally Posted by Antitrust32

The question really is what do you trust more... electronics tracking every step or a pair of eyes prone to making mistakes.

The answer is simple.

It goes way beyond that. It strikes at the foundations of the present game.
It will allow those doing speed/pace figures to accurately (once and for all) compute these figures. As an example: with actual ground covered, you can now have an accurate feet per second number. You can thus actually tell how much ground was covered in a race that was supposed to be, say, 6F. So, rather than having a speed number for a race without any regard to the actual ground covered, and in some cases this could be a difference of 100 ft or so, you can now have an accurate number for the race. Not only for the winner but for all the others. And, you'd clearly see, for the 1st time, that the fastest horse in the race is not always the winner. Which makes the present 'not fast enough' BS, just that.