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Originally Posted by Calzone Lord
Within about 20 seconds, the horse was posted on the board as the 4th place finisher and Charles Town never showed the photo. I'm sure he must have took a very bad picture and lost the bob ... but half of the room was in disbelief that he lost the photo...and you had the conspiracy talk going because the photo was called in only about 20 seconds after the finish line and Charles Town didn't show it after the race.
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I've seen a couple of times the photo camera malfunction and cause the stewards to review from the tape replay.
June 30 Stewards Minutes (Betfair Hollywood Park)---
http://t.co/56RItHC6
06/28/12
PHOTO FINISH MALFUNCTION-NO PICTURE
Immediately after the finish of the fourth race, Photo Finish technician
Tammy Boag informed the Stewards that due to a camera malfunction
there was no photo finish image available. The Placing Judges were
aware of the situation and compared their numbers with those of the
Stewards. All five officials were in agreement. Additionally, the video of
the race was run at slow motion speed through the finish line area to
further verify the numbers. The camera was working for the next race and
throughout the day.