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Links for 2010-06-01

• Quality Road – Met Mile – race replay
  Beyer speed figure of 114 for Todd Pletcher trainee.
  (tags: horseracing belmont quality-road met-mile stakes-races)
• Could nondescript broodmare become the best of all time?
  "Though Hasili was a stakes winner on the track and had a solid pedigree in her corner, nothing in her form could have indicated the impact she would have on the sport once she entered the breeding shed."
  (tags: horseracing breeding broodmares blue-hens hasili)
• Omnisurface Star updates
  General Quarters, Tizaqueena, Evening Jewel join the ranks.
  (tags: horseracing omnisurface-stars)
• Experiments in delinkification
  From the reader's perspective: "Where a footnote gives your brain a gentle nudge, the link gives it a yank. What's good about a link — its propulsive force — is also what's bad about it." Could fewer links be better?
  (tags: blogging linking communication information-design the-flow)

Posted by Delicious in Miscellany on 06/01/2010 @ 10:01 am / Follow @railbird on Twitter

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