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Old 06-26-2007, 01:01 AM
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Originally Posted by ALostTexan
I have a question to add to this. Are places like Keeneland going to ever use their expensive tracking system for training times? Seems like this should be the standard, doing away with alot of those 'human errors', and if they already have the system in place, why not use it?

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The old "beam" system is more precise than the Trakus system and they choose not to use it, I assume due to the extra manpower requirements. I'm not sure the Trakus system is any less manpower intensive, probably more so as a beacon (The "chip") needs to be placed on the horse in addition to all the other data gathering tasks involved with the old system.
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