Quesmark
12-06-2008, 12:26 AM
If making money is the goal,then the economics of actually going to the track aren't the way to get there,as the writer of this NY Times "Freakonomics" piece quickly explains:
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/blogs_v3/freakonomics/authors/annika-mengisen.jpg December 4, 2008, 9:38 am
FREAK Shots: I知 Just Here for the Horses and Gin
By Annika Mengisen (http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/author/annika-mengisen/)I spent my Thanksgiving at the New Orleans Fair Grounds Racetrack (http://www.fairgroundsracecourse.com/) in a gaudy hat, betting on horses. A U.S.A. Today photographer snapped this photo (http://www.usatoday.com/sports/horses/2008-11-27-notrack_N.htm) of me:
http://www.nytimes.com/images/blogs/freakonomics/posts/Ciggy.jpgPhoto: Sean Gardner/U.S.A. Today
from and continued at:
http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/04/freak-shots-at-the-races/
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/blogs_v3/freakonomics/authors/annika-mengisen.jpg December 4, 2008, 9:38 am
FREAK Shots: I知 Just Here for the Horses and Gin
By Annika Mengisen (http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/author/annika-mengisen/)I spent my Thanksgiving at the New Orleans Fair Grounds Racetrack (http://www.fairgroundsracecourse.com/) in a gaudy hat, betting on horses. A U.S.A. Today photographer snapped this photo (http://www.usatoday.com/sports/horses/2008-11-27-notrack_N.htm) of me:
http://www.nytimes.com/images/blogs/freakonomics/posts/Ciggy.jpgPhoto: Sean Gardner/U.S.A. Today
from and continued at:
http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/04/freak-shots-at-the-races/