Quandry:

When a horse wins by 17.5 lengths and the timer stops, is the position of the following runners frozen at that precise moment to indicate beaten lengths or does the clock keep ticking to see how much ground the others make up AFTER the winner crosses.

With regard to finish positions, we know the race is to the wire but what about with regard to beaten lengths?

For instance lets say Survivalist was in fact 17.5 lengths behind when Bellamy Rd crossed the wire, but how much SLOWER was he in getting to the wire? What if he finished much faster than the winner within those 17.5 lengths and theoretically closed that margin to say 9 or 10 lengths? How would one know unless every horse in every race was timed to the wire.



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