Links for 2009-05-23
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"Rachel Alexandra figured to be the favorite off her spectacular record-setting 20 1/4-length win in the Kentucky Oaks (G1), but for most of the early betting she was barely above even money. The public could not bet her enough and she certainly qualified as the kind of overbet favorite that we always tell you to avoid." I guess I'm alone in this — I thought 9-5 on a much-the-best horse who looked like even money or a tick better was a pretty good price.
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"On a cool spring morning in May of 1836 Isaac Michael Dyckman possibly took leave from his family home in Inwood, on the Northern tip of Manhattan, mounted his steed, and rode the muddy trail to the Union Race Course in far off Long Island for what would prove to be one of the most celebrated horse races of the 19th Century …"
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Key point, expanded: "When Gawker started, there was a surfeit of information and not nearly enough context — so we provided that, in the form of links and occasionally snarky commentary. But now the balance has shifted…. If a good exclusive used to provide 10 times the traffic of a standard regurgitated blog post, now it garners a hundred times as much…. The content market is finding its new balance."
Posted by Delicious in Miscellany on 05/23/2009 @ 7:30 am / Follow @railbird on Twitter
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