Bitplayer: Don't hold your breath waiting for racing to utilize "today's technology" (like the ESPN blimp raceview), they could have easily implemented a way to accurately time each horses fractional times several years ago by putting a tiny electronic gizmo in each horses bridle (or wherever) and tranmitting their times to a computer as each horse passed each pole but they haven't done anything in this area yet. I guess they would rather leave the bettors, especially the pace handicappers, crunching numbers using somebody's estimated lengths beaten rather than the real times.
There are numerous other utilizations of new technologies that the tracks could be utilizing to the benefit of the horseplayers but, so far, they haven't shown any interest at all in doing so. Asfufh