24 August 2024

By The Numbers - part the sixty seventh

Killing them softly with his song? What with Baffert still in deep shit, is there much future for killing horseys with races as a side-effect? It appears dicey.
In 1990, for example, more than 40,000 foals were born in the United States
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Last year, the number of would-be thoroughbred racehorses born was 17,200
Horse racing needs its own JD Vance. Let's make more babies!!! Well, so long as we keep those rich Mid-East Oil State dictators from providing younguns. OH, wait... they buy up most of the good foals.
"Saudi Arabia, Dubai, and Bahrain are areas that have an increased interest in dirt racing; and the one thing that is clear, is the best dirt racehorses in the world are coming from the United States," he said. "It is a natural progression that paid dividends today."
W. Edwards Deming is said to have said: "In God we trust, all others bring data." In the racing bidnezz it appears to be, "In money we trust, who cares about deprivation?"

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