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The Ready-Reckoner, or Farmer’s Complete Table; Aberystwyth, 19th century. A ready reckoner is a printed book or table containing pre-calculated values, often multiples of given amounts. They were widely used in shops and by tradesmen before the advent of cheap electronic calculators, metric weights and measures and decimal currencies in the ...
It was also determined at that time that few horses with no chef-de-race influences in the two most stamina-laden groups, Solid and Professional, had won major races at distances of 1 + 1 ⁄ 4 miles or longer even if the horse had a sufficient Classic presence in its pedigree to keep the Dosage Index from being over 4.00 (when Affirmed won the ...
The stepped reckoner or Leibniz calculator was a mechanical calculator invented by the German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (started in 1673, when he presented a wooden model to the Royal Society of London [2] and completed in 1694). [1]
Behind the betting windows at Ascot racetrack, Australia February 1939. An automatic totalisator is a device to add up the bets in a pari-mutuel betting system. The whole of the pot (the stakes on all competitors) is divided pro rata to the stakes placed on the winning competitor, and those tickets are paid out.
As with all other American racing wagers, the "double" is conducted in parimutuel fashion, but with the number of betting interests in the daily double pool equal to the product of the number of entries in each race. For example, if there are 10 entries in the first race and eight in the second, there will be 80 betting interests, one for each ...
According to Timeform, one of its ratings represents "the merit of the horse expressed in pounds and is arrived at by careful examination of its running against other horses using a scale of weight for distance beaten which ranges from around 3 lb a length at five furlongs and 2 lb a length at a mile and a quarter to 1 lb a length at two miles".
In horse racing and greyhound racing, the starting price (SP) is the odds prevailing on a particular entry in the on-course fixed-odds betting market at the time a race begins. The method by which SPs are set for each runner varies in different countries but is generally by consensus of an appointed panel on the basis of their observations of ...
Fam Alber Horse Racing LLC (Leif Alber) 1:53 0/0 $1,500,000 2010 Muscle Massive Ronald Pierce: Jimmy Takter Brixton Medical, Order By Stable et al. 1:51 0/0 $1,500,000 2009 Muscle Hill: Brian Sears Gregory B. Peck: TLP Stable, Silva, Southwind Farm, Muscle Hill Racing 1:50 1/5 $1,520,333 2008 Deweycheatumnhowe: Ray Schnittker: Ray Schnittker