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Originally Posted by GenuineRisk
A camera in a car driving alongside actual racing horses, which you need for decent mid- and close-up shots would likely affect the outcome of a race, which would be unfair to the bettors.
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They would do this all the time in Dubai.
You would get the Jeep camera angle as well as the awesome blimp shot after a race. Only difference is that the vehicle would drive inside of the rail instead of on the track with the horses.
I don't remember all the racing scenes in Secretariat...all I remember is that the ones I remember were horrible. I'm not a suing person...but If I was Laffit Pincay Jr. --- I would sue the sh!t out of Disney for the ride he gave on Sham in (I think it was the Preakness) in the movie.
You can't make an entire race from scratch without it looking like a complete joke.
If you film a hundred races with all the riders wearing a jock cam -- you will get your share of dramatic races. A horse will break slow or flat out get left and still win. You'll get a few great head-to-head stretch duels. You'll get many instances of rough riding, inquirys, and major traffic trouble.
No one would have to sit there and watch all of the racing footage...just simply read the result chart...and in 20 seconds you'll know if anything dramatic occured that you'd want to work with in your racing scene.
Give me just 8 jockey cameras, NBC camera angles, a pan shot, and cutaways of a crowd and I'm sure I could put together way better racing scenes than anyone trying to stage a horse race from scratch.