Links for 2010-02-23
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Of the 38 races run over Meydan's Tapeta track, only three have been won by front-runners, four by pressers, nine by trackers, etc. Add it up and, "… 58 percent of this season's Meydan synthetic winners — 22 of 38 — have been closers." Quite different from what one jockey expected prior to Meydan's opening: "Horses coming up from behind will find it very difficult so it’s going to suit horses that like racing up in the first five."
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Very interesting app for visualizing chart data (API to come).
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Exhibit review: “As are many of Corio’s paintings, this one is named for a thoroughbred race horse, and according to gallery information the arrangement of colors is derived from the artist’s analysis of results at the Belmont and Aqueduct tracks. Whatever. All you really need to know is right before your eyes.” Racing rendered in geometric abstraction: View all the paintings on the artist’s site. The piece titled “Casino Drive” draws the gaze as much as the horse himself did during the 2008 Triple Crown season.
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