Links for 2010-06-29
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Fascinating results from the first year of the TJC equine injury database. "The analysis also showed female horses had a lower fatality rate than intact male horses; that females weren’t at increased risk when they compete against males; that 2-year-olds were less likely to break down than older horses; that there was no statistically significant difference in fatal injuries with various surface conditions." View the stats (PDF).
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More on TJC injury data. "This tells us the debate goes on." Pointlessly, for the moment. The data suggest the surface debate is a distraction, and that it’s better to focus on other factors for safety improvements.
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"Provenance is becoming more important in many fields I’ll outline in a moment. Why? Because it’s possible. And because it’s possible, it becomes expected. The link enables provenance: click here to see the source. The web enables provenance: search here to find out where this came from. The link economy requires provenance: link to support journalism at its source. The link ethic demands provenance. Period."
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.
Links for 2010-06-01
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Beyer speed figure of 114 for Todd Pletcher trainee.
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"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."
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General Quarters, Tizaqueena, Evening Jewel join the ranks.
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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?
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