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[edit] New(ish) article

Chester (horse) appears to fall within this project's scope, so I thought I'd pass along the news of the article's creation. --Sturm 23:41, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Horse Farm Infobox

Would someone like to take a shot at creating an Infobox for horse farms? Handicapper (talk) 14:40, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] British jump racing Champion Jockey

I spent some time upgrading this list today, putting the information into a table which can be sorted in a variety of ways. I'd strongly recommend it be moved to a more appropriate title: perhaps List of British National Hunt racing's Champion Jockeys would work? It would be great to get some feedback, plus any suggestions for improvement. The biggest problem is finding reliable references. Any ideas? MeegsC | Talk 22:10, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

How about reversing the initial date order so that the most recent winner appears at the top of the table? - Cuddy Wifter (talk) 23:49, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
As the default, you mean? MeegsC | Talk 10:30, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
Yes. I think the current Champion Jockey is more likely to be of interest to enquirers, and should appear at the top of the list, without having to go to the bottom of the page to find this information. Also, when next years winner is added it appears when the page initially opens. Just my 2 cents worth. Cuddy Wifter (talk) 23:00, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
Good point! I'll work on reversing it. MeegsC | Talk 09:56, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
Y Done. Any other suggestions? MeegsC | Talk 10:31, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Cantering and galloping leads

On Lead (leg) there is a content dispute re the relative merits of transverse and rotatory leads. Eg, cantering disunited and round gallop. See Talk:Lead (leg). --Una Smith (talk) 15:22, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism with Blood-Horse magazine List of the Top 100 U.S. Racehorses of the 20th Century

Can someone correct the vandalism inflicted upon the Blood-Horse magazine List of the Top 100 U.S. Racehorses of the 20th Century entry? Furthermore block and/or ban the user of said changes? I'm not sure if the person understood that the list came from a publication or just wanted to voice their idiotic view of horse racing's leaders. --Kellsboro Jack (talk) 19:52, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thoroughbred

Wikipedia:WikiProject Equine has just put up Thoroughbred as a GA nomination. Thought we'd let ya'll know. Ealdgyth - Talk 19:55, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Oddity in the article for Byerley Turk

In paragraph three of this aticle, referring to the scaricity of direct male line progengy of this horse, there is a statement that "he also bred the Byerley Turk mare, founder of Thorougbred family 1 ... " I presume this means that he sired this foundation mare, but I was reluctant to change the wording in the original article, not being sufficiently sure of my horse breeder's vocabulary. Would someone please fix this this, and then delete this post. 161.184.44.108 (talk) 17:47, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Infobox for jockeys

Horses have them, as do competitors from other sports, why not jockeys? Anyone fancy having a crack at it? Grunners (talk) 16:02, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

We already have Template:Horseracing personalities infobox. Check out these examples: Eddie Arcaro, Walter Swinburn and Scobie Breasley. - Cuddy Wifter (talk) 22:52, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
That's the sort of thing. We've a long way to go to get them on every jockey's page though! Grunners (talk) 22:35, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Inconsistency with DOD for 1985 Kentucky Derby winner, Spend a Buck.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spend_A_Buck

Paragraph one lists DOD as November 24, 2002: "Spend A Buck (born 1982 in western Kentucky, died November 24, 2002 in Brazil) was an American thoroughbred race horse."


Last Paragraph lists DOD as November 24, 2000: "Spend A Buck had a very successful post-racing career standing stud, [2] siring 27 stakes winners with earnings of over $16 million. He died on November 24, 2000 at Haras Bage do Sul in Brazil, following an anaphylactic reaction to penicillin."

Thanks for pointing out the "typo". It's now fixed. - Cuddy Wifter (talk) 07:13, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Jockey article in need of NPOV editing

If someone is interested in jockeys there's an article that needs help: Michael Walker (jockey). The current article is very POV and uses un-encyclopedic language. It appears to be all original research and no sources are listed. ·:· Will Beback ·:· 21:20, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] New articles on Thoroughbred racing

I have noticed that a number of WikiProjects are using the bot User:AlexNewArtBot to identify possible new articles which are relevent to their particular project; see for example Wikipedia:WikiProject_Ships/New_articles. Do you think there is merit in doing something similar for Thoroughbred racing, and are there any members of this project with the necessary skills to volunteer to compile a rules set and set up a subpage for new Thoroughbred racing articles? - Cuddy Wifter (talk) 07:53, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thoroughbred

Is up at WP:FAC. Ealdgyth - Talk 02:46, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

And is now a Featured Article. Ealdgyth - Talk 01:42, 8 June 2008 (UTC)