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ing except water tanks for the next day). The instructions are permanent and apply throughout
the competition. White bags of ice thrown around and trampled no longer have the right to be.
Their content has to be poured into bins or containers before the event. It is part of a system of
education in which whatever you feel like doing is no longer acceptable and the images of the
competition and its venue come into play for the fame of the venue.
Now the grooming area is not a place without limits. There is clearly an inside and an outside. This allows
more effective control of the 5 assistants per horse rule. Even if this is not yet observed up to 100%, it is
being rooted in the minds with the help of the organizers and ground jury members and the difference
with what was practiced before is obvious. The notion of field of play materializes both physically and
mentally, which is another positive fact.
Control
But mankind being what it is and having an innate tendency to cling to old habits, the Organizing
Committee had to enforce a monitoring CCTV network to assist the ground jury in its management
task. Thus, a room with direct access to the inspection area now centralizes a network of
high definition cameras.
This network covers the whole vet gate area (from arrival to departure lines, including the grooming
area, the inspection area with its trotting lines, rest areas and even the approach area of arrival and a
few meters after the start). Everything is recorded and the operator in charge can enlarge any image
and zoom on it as much as technology allows. This has a deterrent effect which is perhaps not yet fully
integrated into mentalities, but will certainly have an impact of which we will become aware at the end
of the season when we analyze the weak and strong points of the new rules enforced.
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