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The Daily Racing Form (DRF) (referred to as the Racing Form or "Form" and sometimes "telegraph" or "telly") is a tabloid newspaper founded in 1894 in Chicago, Illinois, by Frank Brunell. The paper publishes the past performances of racehorses as a statistical service for bettors covering horse racing in North America. [1]
First published in book form in 1975, the Daily Racing Form began incorporating Beyer Speed Figures in a horse's past performances in 1992 and the system now assigns a Beyer number for each horse race.
The distance between horses at a given point in the race, usually measured in lengths (see above). For the leader, it is the distance ahead of the second place horse. For other horses, it is the distance by which they trailed the leader. Shown in past performance charts as the small number after the horse's position at a given call. [26] Minus pool
In 1936 a Horse of the Year award was created by a poll of the staff of The New York Morning Telegraph and its sister newspaper, the Daily Racing Form (DRF), a tabloid founded in 1894 that was focused on statistical information for bettors. [6] At the same time a rival poll was organised by the Baltimore-based Turf and Sport Digest magazine. [7]
Steeplechase racing at Deauville. Past Performances appear on horse racing programs such as the DRF (Daily Racing Form), Equibase, and Brisnet.Information on jockeys, trainers, date of races, finishes in races, speed figures, odds and more of the last 10 races are provided to give handicappers a sense of history and information to bet with.
In 1936 both the Turf & Sports Digest magazine and Daily Racing Form (DRF) began naming an annual champion. Starting in 1950, the Thoroughbred Racing Associations (TRA) began naming its own champion. The following list provides the name of the horses chosen by both of these organizations.
At the end of 1968, Dr. Fager swept the Horse of the Year awards, topping the polls organised by the Thoroughbred Racing Association, [50] the Daily Racing Form [51] and the Turf and Sport Digest. [52] He was also named outstanding sprinter, champion handicap horse and co-champion turf horse. [53]
Champions The Lives, Times, and Past Performances of America's Greatest Thoroughbreds, Daily Racing Form This section may contain irrelevant references to popular culture . Please help Wikipedia to improve this section by removing the content or adding citations to reliable and independent sources .