Today we went to the races in Bega to see how our latest racehorse, Hot Eyed Glare, would perform. Our other horse, Diamond Jay, is having a break at the moment.
Unfortunately the horse didn't run well as the jockey worked the horse too hard at the start of the race rather that letting him settle has he was directed by the trainer. So he came well back in the field. I didn't get a picture of him crossing the line because I can only take a finite number of frames at high speed and I ran out of them before he crossed.
So I spent the rest of the day trying to capture a good picture of the horses as they came down the straight. It was a lot harder than I expected, especially when the cloud came in and reduced the light. I had to set the speed to about 1/1250 sec or 1/1600 sec to avoid any motion blur.
