Opening Day at Belmont (1905)

[Linny]

Originally Posted by joeydb

That was cool. I've never seen an old-fashioned start without a gate. And that horse on the outside never heard of "saving ground" apparently.
Too bad that we still don't correct for the different frames-per-second of the old films, because everything looks unnaturally fast. But I guess if we slowed it down things would look choppy since there aren't as many frames as are in modern film and video.

They had a straightaway over 7f so it's possible that was a straight track race.