OFFICIALS IMPRESSED
Video-Tape Method (From Our Own Reporter) BLENHEIM. Mr F. T. H. Bell, secretary of the Canterbury Jockey Club, and Mr F. Evans, the club’s course superintendent at Riccarton, attended the Marlborough Racing Club's meeting at Blenheim yesterday to watch the filming of races by the video-tape method. The video-tape, which was in use for the first time at a race meeting in the South Island, was most successful.
Mr P. P. L. Dillon, a committeeman of the Canterbury Jockey Club, who farms near Blenheim, was so impressed by the equipment that he asked that representatives of the C.J.C. be sent north to see for themselves.
Messrs Bell and Evans were just as impressed as Mr Dillon. They saw the running of the first race through twice before the field had returned to the birdcage, and watched the running of the second from the judicial committee room while the race was in progress.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31349, 20 April 1967, Page 4
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