Umpire saying "too close to call"

[RealityChuck]

@Xema

In horse racing, there is the concept of a “dead heat” - two (or more) horses are judged to have finished so nearly simultaneously that even with the normally available high-speed photo it is not possible to decide which was ahead.

One interesting sidelight of this is that before the development of the high speed photo, dead heats were less common. The judges would pick one horse or another (and, of course, they couldn’t get a perfect angle).