Folks messing with horses again

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Folks messing with horses again

Postby Shergar » Sat Jul 11, 2009 10:48 pm

Dear Lucy or Rouge:

Someone removed the race record and photo of Damascus. They even took away his "Black Type." Though I noticed someone did make him black type horse again.

Sweeper, a 1909 H. Is not listed as a black type horse. I believe he won the 2000 Guineas?

Same with Bachelors Button a 1899 H. I'm sure he won several stakes in GB.

Both show up in the database as with that Bold type Blue lettering.


Both horse are locked up, so I can't do anything about it.

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Postby Roguelet » Sun Jul 12, 2009 6:25 am

The horse is locked and still being messed with??? Maybe it's a glitch. I definitely have to defer to Lucy on this one.
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Postby Lucy » Sun Jul 12, 2009 9:48 am

It is a glitch - one that erases all extra info. Not even the locks can prevent it, unfortunately. All I can do is fix them as they pop up.

I'll get these guys fixed shortly....let me know if you come across any others.

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Postby Shergar » Mon Jul 13, 2009 6:46 pm

Lucy or Rouge:

You can add Invasor and Majiden to the list of black type horses that have information erased and not showing as bt in database.

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Postby Lucy » Mon Jul 13, 2009 7:10 pm

Invasor & Majideh are fixed.

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Postby Shergar » Mon Jul 13, 2009 7:25 pm

Ok here is a puzzler for you.

Dr. Dino (The 2002 Colt by Muhtathir) is in the stakes database as placing 2nd in the 1967 Primio Certosa, and running 3rd the next year.

Sub Rose (2005 F. by Galileo) is listed as running 3rd in the 1967 running of the aforementioned race.

Vision D'Etat (2005 C. by Chichicastenango??) Is winning the 1967/68 running of the Primio Certosa!!

Another glitch, or someone messing around again

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Postby Lucy » Tue Jul 14, 2009 1:53 pm

No, this is definitely a human at work. :evil: Someone's made a total mess of the Italian race results.

Unfortunately, my resources for Italian racing are very limited, so I can rarely fix the results - I can only remove those that I know are wrong, which is what I have done here.

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Postby Shergar » Thu Jul 23, 2009 1:15 am

Lucy:

I noticed on bloodlines.net website they have some historic race results for several of the major Italian races. I am assuming their data is correct?
When I get a chance, I will cross-check this database with bloodlines.

BTW Add Elusive Quality to the list of horses thatr have lost their black type and information

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Postby Lucy » Thu Jul 23, 2009 4:08 pm

Duh! I don't know why I didn't think to look there. I work on their US race lists, so they were right under my nose. :roll:

Anyway, the facts there are usually pretty accurate, but I'll find out how recently they were updated, just to be sure. :)

I'll fix EQ later tonight. Thanks.

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Postby Shergar » Tue Jul 28, 2009 2:25 am

Lucy:

Here are some more for you that need to be fixed. I tried, but they are locked.
Lake Country 1981 Filly by Caucasus. She won a bunch of Stakes
Cherimoya. 1908 Filly by Cherry Tree. Won the 1911 Oaks
Glass Doll. 1904 F.by Isinglass. Won the 1907 Oaks
Daidem 1914 F. by Orby She won the 1917 1000 Guineas
Brave Act. 1994 Colt by Persian Bold. He won a bunch of stakes on the West Coast.

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Postby Lucy » Tue Jul 28, 2009 1:38 pm

Those are all fixed.

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Postby Shergar » Fri Aug 07, 2009 12:02 am

Hi Lucy:

Here are three more for you. I tried to fix, but they are locked

Northern Queen. MSW in Canada
Wool Winder. Won the 1907 St Leger
Memoir. MSW in GB in the 19t Cent.

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Postby byanose » Fri Aug 07, 2009 2:05 am

Wool Winder is often written Woolwinder in press reports

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Postby Lucy » Fri Aug 07, 2009 1:47 pm

byanose wrote:Wool Winder is often written Woolwinder in press reports


Press reports make that sort of mistake with alarming regularity. :wink: It's always safer to double-check against a studbook when working from articles or journals.

In a perfect world, we'd be able to search by alternate names/spellings, but that's not possible the way this database is currently programmed.

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Postby Pedigree Ann » Fri Sep 04, 2009 7:38 pm

Lucy, if you need to check something Italian, I bought a book called Italian Produce Records 1958-1992 at THE second-hand book store in a village near Newmarket. It has produce records like those in Meres de Gagnants in one volume, and results of all black-type races along with stallion lists in the second volume. e-mail me if you need anything in that range.
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