Word: photofinishing
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...couple months ago, I boxed a four-dollar 7-2perfecta. The 7 dog won. The 2 dog lost a photofinish for second place. Another two inches and Iwould've won a hundred bucks...
Died. Marshall Cassidy, 76, onetime jockey, steward, executive secretary of The Jockey Club (1941-64) and secretary-general and vice president of the prestigious New York Racing Association (1955-60), who pioneered the nationwide adoption of saliva and urine tests for horses, devised and popularized the photofinish camera; of injuries he suffered in an automobile accident three months ago; in Glen Cove...
...first time in the history of TV's Nielsen ratings, the three major networks last week ended up in as close a thing to a photofinish as statistics are likely to produce: a dead heat between CBS and NBC, each scoring an identical 19.4%* and, only a whisker behind long-lagging ABC with...
...Springs, W. Va. ¶ Russia's Mikhail Botvinriik, the world -. chess championship he has held since 1948, after a 24-game draw with Russia's David Bronstein; in Moscow. ¶ The Rokeby Stable's County Delight, the $69,600 Gallant Fox Handicap, in a four-horse photofinish over Palestinian, Greek Ship and Lotowhite; at Jamaica...
They raced under the wire as one. An unreal silence fell. Finally the photofinish camera revealed the truth: Noor had beaten Citation again, by the thinnest fraction of a nose. The time: 2:52 4/5, a new American record for the mile and three quarters...