| 摘要 |
Improvements in horseracing tracks and in particular to a means of achieving "fail-safe" handicapped "flying starts" in horseracing, comprising of a racetrack at least a part of which may be divided into a plurality of discrete, adjoining running lanes, and said running lanes are separated by barrier rails (3), and starting gates (4) are attached to the barrier rails, characterised by separate acceleratable automatically-operable starting gates (4) which may be placed at equal distance race starting positions or at different distance handicapped race starting positions relative to a winning post for each competing horse in its own running lane, means being provided to cause the plurality of starting gates to be moved forward in precise unison at a predetermined rate of acceleration with each competing horse following its own starting gate in its own running lane, the arrangement being such that, when the starting gates simultaneously arrive at a preselected race starting position in each running lane, all of the said gates are opened simultaneously automatically, subsequently being braked to a stop, which allows all competing horses to start in a race at any desired racing pace and carry the same "all-up weight" inlieu of individual weight handicapping. |
