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Originally Posted by slotdirt
For those of us who haven't watched a race at Woodbine...what the heck are we talking about?
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do you have access to a replay? if so just watch any race from last night.
I don't know all the details but the gist of it is that they put a small transmitter chip on each horse or jockey. The signal from this chip makes it possible to get realtime position information for each horse.
What they have done is while the race is running at the bottom of the screen is an overhead view of the race and it shows the position of each horse on the track relative to each other. Its displayed just as a small colored squares but you can watch these squares and see who is moving and how wide they are. it has the look and feel of watching a video game.
something new, don't know yet how much it actually adds but i think its neat to watch.