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Years ago, I designed Practice Race Past Performances from historical races and my handicapping software for the purposes of handicapping education. See the image of one horse below from a historical race at TAM.

My goal was to make it difficult if not impossible for beginner to novice players to figure out the identity of each horse so they would have to handicap the race rather than figure out which horse won the race by other means. This was no small task. As the market for handicapping education shrunk, I never did put these practice races to use. I'm still not sure if my goal was achieved.

I imagine the PA sharpies here could identify the names of each horse pretty quickly and determine which horse won without handicapping.

Nonetheless, I wonder if this concept, if not my actual practice race design, has any applicability given the current mad rush to playing historical races until the pandemic is over?

Anyone here care to take a crack at identifying this horse?

Thanks.