Towering 170 feet over the backstretch, the high-definition video screen that cost $12 million is bigger than three NBA basketball courts, bigger than the screens on the monstrous four-sided display at AT&T Stadium, home of the Dallas Cowboys.
The state-of-the-art video board features an ultra-high definition picture, Churchill Downs said. It’s 170 feet wide and 90 feet tall, and sits 80 feet above the ground, putting it about 50 feet higher than the grandstand’s Twin Spires. It’s 11 feet wider and 18 feet higher than the screens that loom above NFL games in Dallas, the largest in the world of their kind when they debuted in 2009.
The horses are shown some 70 feet tall, more than 10 times their true size. It’s backed by 750 new speakers installed throughout the track, which some fans said weren’t loud enough but caught jockey Rosie Napravnik’s attention.
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