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Local parties went to queer figures over the turf for a day or so two weeks ago and rested It was insolent enough to use DAILY RACING FORMS chart numbers for its past reference If it ever starts again it must shift its reference system or stop The protection afforded by the law of copyright suggests this thisThe thistle The turf is statistical Its form wins By its form reference is made to the mere figures of racing correctly reported as DAILY RACING FOKM FOLK reports them Turf statistics applied to turf results means all around honesty and truth There is no avenue upon which to get an idea from the figures of past performance If it did not believe that the average of honesty among men who race horses wasnt wasn't as high as the average of those who operate groceries newspapers and sundry other mercantile estab stab ¬ lishments fishnets DAILY RACING FORM wouldnt wouldn't be published The news it publishes reflects the same idea It is correct genuine and made up from the best sources that can be had There hasnt hasn't been six mistakes in its chart numbers in the past three months This is the mere result of care and expert work Personal ac ¬ counts with 5000 horses are kept on the office books Each account is as carefully built as that of a merchant with a customer DAILY RACING FORMS charts are more complete than any ever published before them or at present They are copyrighted Their numbers are the definite legal keys that make the copyright stamp sharper than usual The numbers are so arranged that proof of duplication is a simple matter of record recordFollowing Following the idea that turf record is needed thin witted newspaper folks seek to tabulate the past of the turf to apply to the entries of each day The result is a lot of clumsy blocks of figures which must first be unravelled unraveled and then applied to the charts as published by DAILY RACING FORM The racing public wants results They get them in DAILY RACING FORMS charts It does not want puzzles
