WinterTriangle
09-14-2009, 04:07 AM
The first, an archived article from the NYtimes 1914, explains the end of the 4 mile race ("it was a contest between the horse, and the gambling machine, and that latter won." Monmouth Park management: "racegoers want quick action for their money")
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9406E1D7133DE333A25753C3A96E9C946596D6CF
I also liked this one from bloodhorse, by Martin Stiles.
"It seems likely that one reason speed has become such a dominant ingredient in the recipe followed by Thoroughbred breeders is that it is so readily quantified. At a sale of 2-year olds in training, workout times like :20 or :21 for a quarter-mile attached to an entry will virtually guarantee a good price but provide no assurance the individual will ever want to run farther than a quarter-mile, or remain sound long enough to earn back his purchase price. It would be of some help to buyers and sellers of young horses if there were a numerical scale that rated certain of the horse’s other qualities in the same way the speed figure does."
Hm........"So easily quantifiable".......(looking at speed on tracks and races skewed to speed makes it easy for the handicapper....they don't have to do more indepth analysis. ?)
1/2 way down the page, Little Guy Breeder has some good comments, IMHO.
http://cs.bloodhorse.com/blogs/finalturn/archive/2009/07/14/good-sense-by-martin-stiles.aspx
I didn't know they don't even list AWD in the catalogs. :confused:
We have what we have because that is what we have told them we want.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9406E1D7133DE333A25753C3A96E9C946596D6CF
I also liked this one from bloodhorse, by Martin Stiles.
"It seems likely that one reason speed has become such a dominant ingredient in the recipe followed by Thoroughbred breeders is that it is so readily quantified. At a sale of 2-year olds in training, workout times like :20 or :21 for a quarter-mile attached to an entry will virtually guarantee a good price but provide no assurance the individual will ever want to run farther than a quarter-mile, or remain sound long enough to earn back his purchase price. It would be of some help to buyers and sellers of young horses if there were a numerical scale that rated certain of the horse’s other qualities in the same way the speed figure does."
Hm........"So easily quantifiable".......(looking at speed on tracks and races skewed to speed makes it easy for the handicapper....they don't have to do more indepth analysis. ?)
1/2 way down the page, Little Guy Breeder has some good comments, IMHO.
http://cs.bloodhorse.com/blogs/finalturn/archive/2009/07/14/good-sense-by-martin-stiles.aspx
I didn't know they don't even list AWD in the catalogs. :confused:
We have what we have because that is what we have told them we want.