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16-03-2002, 04:31
Revolutionary STRIDE racing technology on the way
15 March 2002
The Hong Kong Jockey Club is poised to break new ground by introducing the latest racing information technology, the Sectional Timing and Racing Information for Dynamic Entertainment (STRIDE) system, by next December or early in the new year.
STRIDE will revolutionise racing information and timing methods not only in Hong Kong. While current timing procedures offer only a gauge to the pace of a race with just the leading horse being clocked every 400 metres, STRIDE tracks horses individually and continuously in real time over any given distance and it possesses the ability to locate the position of horse and rider up to 10 centimetres.
Winfried Engelbrecht-Bresges, the Jockey Club's Executive Director of Racing, said: "This will be the first system of its kind in the world and it will afford racing fans a completely new angle when analysing how a race unfolded or a horse's trackwork. The STRIDE system has great potential and it will significantly enhance our customers racing and betting entertainment."
STRIDE operates by the use of wireless transceivers and transponders. Transceivers flash constant signals to credit-card sized transponders, stored safely in a pouch in the jockey's cap, which in turn are relayed back to the transceiver giving a reading of the exact position of the horse and rider and how long it has taken to reach that point.
STRIDE can offer information on factors that have previously defied calculation such as a horse's speed, acceleration and distance travelled.
Multimedia possibilities with STRIDE technology are just as exciting and would enable to show the saddlecloth number of each horse in its position in the race and change as the race develops.
15 March 2002
The Hong Kong Jockey Club is poised to break new ground by introducing the latest racing information technology, the Sectional Timing and Racing Information for Dynamic Entertainment (STRIDE) system, by next December or early in the new year.
STRIDE will revolutionise racing information and timing methods not only in Hong Kong. While current timing procedures offer only a gauge to the pace of a race with just the leading horse being clocked every 400 metres, STRIDE tracks horses individually and continuously in real time over any given distance and it possesses the ability to locate the position of horse and rider up to 10 centimetres.
Winfried Engelbrecht-Bresges, the Jockey Club's Executive Director of Racing, said: "This will be the first system of its kind in the world and it will afford racing fans a completely new angle when analysing how a race unfolded or a horse's trackwork. The STRIDE system has great potential and it will significantly enhance our customers racing and betting entertainment."
STRIDE operates by the use of wireless transceivers and transponders. Transceivers flash constant signals to credit-card sized transponders, stored safely in a pouch in the jockey's cap, which in turn are relayed back to the transceiver giving a reading of the exact position of the horse and rider and how long it has taken to reach that point.
STRIDE can offer information on factors that have previously defied calculation such as a horse's speed, acceleration and distance travelled.
Multimedia possibilities with STRIDE technology are just as exciting and would enable to show the saddlecloth number of each horse in its position in the race and change as the race develops.