Links for 2010-06-28
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Paulick reports: "Dirt statistics from 2009 had an average of 0.39% CEDNFs per starter, so if the hypothetical meeting was strictly on a dirt track there would be 18 horses that didn’t finish and never raced/worked out again. A meeting conducting entirely on an all-weather/synthetic track, with a percentage of 0.19% CEDNFs, would have just nine non-finishers who never raced or worked again. An all-turf meeting would have 12 CEDNFs, based on the percentage of 0.26%. So, in 2009 at least, all-weather/synthetic tracks produced half the number of career-ending incidents than were recorded on dirt, and synthetics were even safer than turf."
View the data (PDF). [But see: “
We cannot identify a significant risk of fatality on dirt versus synthetic.” Researcher Tim Parkin tells Safety and Welfare Summit audience that TJC equine injury database doesn’t show a statistically significant difference between surfaces. Seems impossible to compare TOBA study to TJC due to differing criteria; more inclined to trust the latter.]
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"We’ve been waiting for revenue from gaming for eight or nine years now…. You can’t presume anything, but we are light years ahead of where we were two years ago. It’s been a very pleasant surprise how much institutional support there has been for Suffolk Downs." Conditions for expanded gaming in Massachusetts have never been better.
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"By toughening gambling laws and money-laundering sentences, the U.S. government pushed bookmakers offshore. The first time Dink opened a Daily Racing Form and saw advertisements for gambling parlors based in Antigua and the Dominican Republic, he couldn’t believe it. Bookmakers? Advertising? At worst it was a police scam, he thought, and at best it was a swindle." From the summer issue of Lapham's Quarterly, "Sports and Games," which includes a lovely photo of Man o' War.
Posted by Delicious in Miscellany on 06/28/2010 @ 10:01 am / Follow @railbird on Twitter
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