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There are some excellent candidates among the producers of this week’s most prominent winners, but is there a better horse…
May 21 2012, 11:03am | Visit source ›
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Broodmare of the week: Lottsa Talc
For those of us who like racing class in the dam, Lottsa Talc has lots to offer. The winner of…
May 16 2012, 2:02pm | Visit source ›
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Kentucky Confidential returns for Kentucky Derby week on Sunday. Speaking of the Derby, this year’s historical criteria spreadsheet is running…
April 26 2012, 5:24pm | Visit source ›
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Part of the fun of handicapping the Kentucky Derby is the awesome potential for geeking out on stats, which just…
April 24 2012, 5:29am | Visit source ›
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When you check out my Derby SpaceSheet 3.0 on the left sidebar of this website, you'll notice that the first…
April 23 2012, 5:50pm | Visit source ›
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As most of you well know, the Alcibiades Stakes for two-year-old fillies in the fall at Keeneland is named after…
April 23 2012, 1:53am | Visit source ›
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From NAT: Scratching beneath the surface of injury debate
If the late Arnold Kirkpatrick was still penning this column, he’d say – with his trademark wit, a straight face,…
April 21 2012, 6:40am | Visit source ›
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Discover which prep races have produced the most Kentucky Derby winners and what that means for this year's contenders.
April 19 2012, 5:30am | Visit source ›
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Analysis: Last 10 Kentucky Derby winners and their form at 2
When he won the Grade 1 Florida Derby Saturday, Take Charge Indy became the eighth individual Graded stakes winner of…
April 2 2012, 5:36am | Visit source ›
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The Rest of the Mr. Prospector and Raise a Native Tribe
Last time out I concluded with Unbridled, who of course was by Fappiano, by Mr. Prospector. So I pick up…
April 1 2012, 3:25am | Visit source ›
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The folks upset with methodology keep popping up with regards to the New York Times piece in last Sunday's paper.…
March 29 2012, 1:53pm | Visit source ›
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Scott: The New York Times takes on racing
Instead, consulting Equibase charts of races during the same period, the paper created something called an "incident rate" to compare 62 tracks (including 20 that offer quarter-horse racing) around the…
March 29 2012, 1:41pm | Visit source ›
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Crist: Home-brewed stats skew Times analysis
“Mangled Horses, Maimed Jockeys,” a 6,400-word article splashed across the front-page of last Sunday’s New York Times, might have been a fair and useful piece of investigative journalism had it…
March 29 2012, 1:00pm | Visit source ›
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Times expose notwithstanding, troubling figures at NYRA
These are troubling days for the racing industry. After an unusually high number of equine deaths at the Aqueduct winter…
March 29 2012, 10:28am | Visit source ›
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Dicing and slicing the Times data reveals East Coast is safer
The lengthy New York Times article from March 25 about breakdowns/injuries and the state of the racing industry contained some…
March 28 2012, 9:31am | Visit source ›
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Distorted Humor, Forty Niner, Unbridled
Last time out I presented some statistics on foals by A.P. Indy himself versus foals of Storm Cat himself among…
March 28 2012, 4:28am | Visit source ›
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As most readers know, I am not overly enamored with the Storm Cat male line. The last time I examined…
March 21 2012, 1:58pm | Visit source ›
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Daughters of Man o’ War in the Female Line
Stakes Winner Price PP English…
March 4 2012, 12:54am | Visit source ›
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Secretariat was a total outcross. He had no duplications whatsoever in the first five generations of his pedigree. Ditto for…
February 19 2012, 4:11am | Visit source ›
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Looking At Slots At Tracks In Ontario
Here are some stats. Except for 2012 race dates, the numbers are from the OLG's website for the dates of…
February 18 2012, 8:36pm | Visit source ›
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The preceding post was based on an assumption that the relationship between prices (Price Index) and results (PPI) is pretty…
February 11 2012, 4:27am | Visit source ›
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Some of you may remember the dialogues between “Uncle” Kent Hollingsworth (late editor of the Bland-Horse) and Col. Ellsworth. A…
February 11 2012, 4:22am | Visit source ›
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BLOODSTOCK INDUSTRY APPLIES PRINCIPLES OF SABERMETRICS
The movie Moneyball tells the story of how computer-aided advances in the statistical analyses of potential Major League Baseball players…
February 10 2012, 6:00am | Visit source ›
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Calumet Farm has been a source of many popular female families. One of them was Two Bob (two posts ago).…
February 8 2012, 2:27am | Visit source ›
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Two Bob was the second dam of 1958 champion three-year-old Tim Tam (subject of my last post). The female family…
February 1 2012, 2:21am | Visit source ›
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Sunday Evening was the second dam of both 1969 champion two-year-old Silent Screen and 1968 champion three-year-old filly Dark Mirage…
January 25 2012, 2:05am | Visit source ›
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As Charles Hatton has pointed out, Friar’s Carse figures prominently in the pedigrees of three of the champions of 1959:…
January 18 2012, 4:38am | Visit source ›
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Whirlaway has been mentioned several times in recent posts as the sire of Rock Drill, the dam of Lady Pitt.…
January 7 2012, 4:14am | Visit source ›
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Compile ‘official’ US sire lists by domestic earnings only
re several posts below this on sire list discrepancies The Blood-Horse editorial director Eric Mitchell explained his publication’s stance on…
January 6 2012, 7:39am | Visit source ›
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More on sire lists and the Scat Daddy vs Hard Spun issue
For more on the controversial sire lists published annually in US publications, see below. In yesterday’s issue of Thoroughbred Times…
January 5 2012, 8:08am | Visit source ›
