DEAD HEAT
This occurs when, even with the aid of the photo finish, a judge is unable to declare an outright winner of a race. Before the advent of the photo finish there was frequent uproar when the judge declared a dead heat, when it seemed plain to everyone else that there had been a definite winner.
In many cases, the angle of the actual finishing line is very difficult to assess correctly on some racecourses and the uproar was not justified, although in other instances it was.
Owners, trainers, to say nothing of an army of outraged punters would have been correct in their assessment that they have been robbed by the judges eyesight, or lack of it, because in a dead heat the owners of horses concerned share the prize money and bets on the winners are settled to a reduced state.
The first dead heat decided by a photo finish occurred at Doncaster in October, 1947 the horses being Phantom Bridge and Resistance. Sprint handicaps tend to result in more dead seats than other events when several horses may be within inches of winning, in what is sometimes called a blanket finish.
DISTANCE
1.The distance is a point 240yds from the winning...
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