FILMING OF RACES
Jockey Club’s Action
(Special Corresponaent N.ZP.A.)
_ LONDON, April 11. The Jockey Club has decided to spend £20,000 on a mobile camera patrol to film the vital last three furlongs of a race and record any breach of the rules. It will enable stewards to have a permanent record of any disputed happenings. If there is any rough riding, jostling, bumping, boring, or one jockey striking another or another horse with a whip the stewards will be able to see on the processed film exactly what happened. The scheme provides for two cameras with a team of five operator* on 50ft towers mounted on motor trucks. One tower will photograph the last part of the race head on, and the second will give a sideways view. There will be a very fast service for developing the film in mobile laboratories, within five minutes a film can be shown on a closed circuit television screen. Mobile cameras will be able to drive from meeting to meeting, a great improvement on, and much cheaper than, a permanent installation on every course, as in the United States. The scheme will be ready for trials In mld-June.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29178, 12 April 1960, Page 4
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