In Horse racing. Has there ever been a three way dead heat photo finish on the flat?

Question

In Horse racing. Has there ever been a three way dead heat photo finish on the flat?

Answer 1

I don't know about that but there was a race at Ascot, Queen Anne Stakes, several years ago where the first 3 home were disqualified and the race given to the horse which finished 4th.   Also at Ascot there was a 2 horse race which resulted in a photo finish where it took 25 minutes to decide the winner and where it was found later that it was actually the other horse which had won.  One of the participants in that race was Baronet which won the Cambridgeshire on his next outing.

I have since discovered that on 22 October 1855 at Newmarket a race of 5 runners produced a quadruple dead heat.  In the re-run of the race the finishing order was, Overreach,The Unexpected, Gamester and Lady Golightly.

Relevant to another recent question you may also like to know this.The Great Metropolitan, a race at Epsom, was run twice on the same day in 1903.  Wavelet's Pride won both times. Virago won the City and Suburban and Great Metropolitan Handicaps on the same day 6 April 1854.

Answer 2

The only time I ever saw a three way dead head it was in a quarter horse race at Los Alamitos in California.  The payouts were incredible, as the heavy favorite was not among the three.

Answer 3

There was a triple dead heat in the 1944 Carter Handicap at Aqueduct. See the photo.

Answer 4

Yep. Starting with the 1857 Cesarewitch Stakes at Newmarket to the May 12, 1996 $8,000 claiming race at Yakima, there have been 20.

Answer 5

1849 at goodwood aug/3 bestborough/sagacity/nautch girl

nine more up till 1925

quadruple dead heats

1851 defaulter/squire of malton/reindeer/pulcherrima

1851 overreach/unexpected/gamster/ladygolight...

1953 lingfield nov14 candia/clune deadheated with little honey/spring chick deadheating for third

Answer 6

Here's an excerpt of an article about a triple dead heat at Arlington on May 20, 1990.

It claims that that was the 18th such event in modern thoroughbred racing.

Answer 7

portland meadows in oregon a qh race all 10 head are in the photo for the win the picture is still in the racing office at pm

Answer 8

There have been many instances of three way dead heats and four way dead heats have also happened

Answer 9

Yes there has been

Answer 10

Yes, quite often.