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https://harnesslink.com/new-zealand/no-hopples-no-worries/

Please don't anyone tell Pure Steel that Rondel was Australian bred.

Robin Dundee famously ran 2nd in three NZ Cups (including to Cardy) and alsol finished 2nd to Cardigan Bay at Freehold (USA) the day he reached US$1 million in earnings. She won the first ever Miracle Mile in Sydney and in doing so ran the first sub 2:00 minute mile in a race on Australian soil. And she was involved in the dead heat for 1st in the only Interdom run at Forbury.

Forget "Through the line" it is simply not possible. I believe NZ was the first country in the world to use Finishlynx for racing and NZ also uses a team of professionals - Lynx Op & Judge. The people in the HK video looking at replays on SD TVs were just a cutaway, they certainly were not doing anything relevant to the result.

100% WRONG. Every photo-finish or finishLynx image you have ever seen is showing you the 1st horse's nose on the finish line. Drawing a cursor on a photo, doesn't change the photo, in the same way that drawing a crown on a photo of you, would not make you King. (The photo is showing every horse's nose on the line, because on-the-line is the only view it has. The blades of grass that appear to be in front of the winner, are multiple repeat images of the same blades of grass taken on-the-line in the seconds before the winner arrives.)

The photo finish is always showing the first horse to reach the line. Once you have that photo, it can be viewed as is, or with a cursor(s) super imposed on it. Putting this cursor on 2nd's nose, will show that cursor cutting through 1st. Putting the cursor on 1st's nose will show a gap to 2nd. The first Melbourne Cup to use Finish Lynx was 1997 and it proved its worth. Mite & Power and Doriemus were wide apart as they hit the line together. Doriemus's jockey Greg Hall immediately stood in the stirrups and punched his fist in the air. But the Finish Lynx photo then appeared with the cursor on Doriemus, but cutting M & P's head in half. (As an aside, M & P was the first ever Zabeel to run in the Cup. Just two more started the following year - Champagne-2nd and Jezabeel-1st)

OMG Finish Lynx (and photo-finish) only ever takes one 'photo', and that photo is on the line. The clever operator at Te Rapa, simply put the cursor on the 2nd horse's nose to prove to all viewers that, on the line, it was behind the winner's nose. The odd operator puts a cursor on Both noses, but I much prefer the single cursor on 2nd.

Surely you like having the 5 fastest recent performances on the track/dist highlighted for you? And seeing how each dog has jumped lately? As well as seeing their R, S, W etc for the preferential box races? Not to mention the replay links and the opening fixt odds.

https://www.grnz.co.nz/News/2464/Todays-Formguides

RFS, the report they provided Audits the dogs by the season that they were born. I have no idea what bitches you brought in, but I bet they were both over two years old and so (correctly) would not have appeared as being born in the last two years. The report shows good news here too, there were around 700 dogs born in the season before last and around 700 rehomed last season.

Flabbergasted - I thought you were being the funny man insisting that there was only one way to do it, and then doing it yourself another way! Don't Trackside now do everything in HD? So their recording/playback gear will have a frame counter which will give accuracy between 1/60 to 1/24 of a second.

Flabbergasted - as you can see, thee world authority on Finish Lynx has said "the ONLY logical way to do it" was to 'determine a margin'. Is that how YOU did it?

Looks like you're right on the money Zak. You put up this year's race as the best ever, and no-one has suggested anything else. Statements such as "Ive seen far better" and "not in game long" should be ignored as keyboard cowardice. If anyone had a better race, they would simply name it. If they fail to name it, they leave your nomination as the only contender for best race.

Lowdown At the time YOU posted, what had the Government passed on to YOU about who could get through the Puke road block? In fact, even now, what has the Government made available?

It wasn’t Auckland, it was the Hurricanes and on Rowe Cup night. I can still remember the ad in the paper saying - Hurricanes in Napier, Driving Reigns in Auckland. Merinai won the Rowe Cup, Jack Smolenski took the Messenger, being in the CD you might have anchored a handy type in C1 or C2 called Yulestar. Frank Cooney took the final leg.