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.
Links for 2010-02-20
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On Denman and Kauto Star at Cheltenham. "As with all seductions, however, the more pulsating the anticipation, the greater the potential for disillusion. It's no good for racing to hitch up its skirts so provocatively, if it turns out that a couple of oranges have been tucked into its bra."
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Bright side: Less competition from the Rail during the Triple Crown season.
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Compare any two terms used on Twitter, such as Zenyatta (legendary, beautiful), Rachel Alexandra (fast, perfect). [View spectrum graphic.]
Links for 2010-02-13
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"Once the overseas betting turnover of his 24-hour, seven-day operation is taken into account, his total annual betting spend globally is believed to be well over $1 billion." More from a related article on Ranogajec: "Advantages like the sophisticated information and rebates stack the deck in favour of professionals like Mr. Ranogajec and other internationally renowned punters like American Bill Benter, over average punters."
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Article from 2000 about bettor Bill Benter, an early adopter of computer wagering. "If we do make money, the money has to come from somewhere. Well, yes, the general public loses a somewhat higher ratio." See also: This 2003 Wired piece on Hong Kong computer teams. "Working from mathematical models that are calculated to deliver a 24 percent return on investments, Hong Kong's most sophisticated computer-assisted bettors operate with long-term certainty of what their profits should be."
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