I found this on YouTube. It's the Derby with the old-fashioned split screen and without the stupid overhead angle that NBC chose to use for about 22 seconds (between the 1/2 mile pole and the 1/4 pole). It's the Churchill Down's replay with the Churchill race caller, the way it is meant to be. With the fractions posted in the corner and the odds real big at the bottom.
It is so much more exciting shown like this and I don't feel like I'm watching a video game. In the end it's just a horse race I don't know why NBC had to make it so complicated.
I love seeing Tiago fly through everybody on the gallop out about 10 seconds after the race was over. If only he could get himself unwound a little earlier next time. Imawildandcrazyguy was flying too and you couldn't really see that with NBC's coverage.
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Thanks for posting this! Will the TV networks ever learn that the video display at the track, in which one or two cameras follow the horses all the way around the track, makes a race a lot easier to watch? It's a lot harder to follow one's horse when the camera cuts from one camera angle to another several times during the race. The networks should save the fancy camera angles for the replays and post-race analysis.
I really like the blimp shots, but as a replay; the race is certainly easier to watch the old school way.
I loved the blimp shot. I've heard non-horse racing fans talk about how much that blimp shot helped them see more with Borel's move on the rail.
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