Fast pictures and in-play trading

Here you can see the finish of a race, as a bonus you can see it happen all over again a few seconds later. These are two images of the top two screens of my quad screen display. Both were taken a few seconds apart from each other, well at least four to be more precise. Possibly near five seconds if you count rounding of the seconds.

On the right you can see the fastest feed possible and on the left the standard feed from At the races, channel 415 on Sky. You can see that on the first image the fast feed pictures arrived at 3:08:47. As the winner punched the air with excitement we were still waiting on ATR for the confirmed winner. Five or more seconds later we see the horse cross the line.

In this particular race the time delay was of significant benefit, the winner accelerated late on to over turn the front runner. This is common as most action takes place quite late in flat races.

So how to do get these fast pictures? Quite easy really, there are from the BBC. Terrestial pictures are the closest you can get to being on course, beating even the other feeds from the course and being only just behind the real live action. Of course if you have no race reading skills you may still struggle, but at least you know you are pretty much on a level playing field.