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The Melbourne Cup is the horse race that stops a nation. Or if you’re from NZ, you know it’s actually the horse race that stops two nations!   I know very little about horse racing, but I love playing with data. So this morning, I dived in to the details of historic Melbourne Cup winners to see what I could learn and built an interactive dashboard with it all.    What did I learn? Well in the last 35 years:    🐎 There’s only been 1 repeat winner (Makybe Diva). 🐎 Of the 33 unique winners, 15 of them were Geldings. 🐎 The track conditions have been rated as good about 50% of the time (and they’re good today too). 🐎 Barrier draws 6 and 15 have never won whereas barriers 11, 14 and 21 have won four times. 🐎 The favourite has only won 8 times. 🐎 The weight of recent winning Jockeys has been heavier by 3 – 5kg’s compared to the 35-year average. 🐎 Australian horses have won when the track is good on only 10 of the 18 occasions. Their other 11 winners occurred when the track conditions differed.   Feel free to dive in to the dashboard and have a look around yourself. It’s completely interactive.    I’m off to look for an Australian Gelding that isn’t the favourite, has a jockey weighing 53.6kgs and has drawn barrier 3 or 9. I’ll take an Irish one as well. Three of their four victories came on good tracks. 👇 Dashboard link here 👇 https://lnkd.in/em8K2XWk

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Ahead of The 152nd Open Championship at Royal Troon, Shot Scope have pulled on-course performance data to provide insight into how amateur golfers navigate The Open venue. https://lnkd.in/ebYiFJvD Shot Scope users can plan their strategy for Royal Troon with the free-to-use Shot Scope MyStrategy feature. Overlaying their on course data on every hole to see how they would tackle this year’s The Open Championship venue. #theopen #golf #golfdata #golfindustrynews

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In honor of it being Players Championship week on the PGA Tour, check out our model predicting the finishing positions of the entire field this week. Unsurprisingly, our model found world number 1 Scottie Scheffler as the projected winner at 9 under par. There were many other surprises in the top 10 however, and you can check those out in the document below. #pgatour #sportsanalytics #golf #playerschampionship #datamodeling

IRC European Double Handed Championship - Preview 📰 This year’s IRC European Double Handed Championship will be decided over 750 miles of racing across two challenging long offshore races. French competitors vastly outnumbered all others for the inaugural edition last year. However, this year the tables have turned, with the British in the ascendancy, with almost double last year’s numbers entered. Didier Gaudoux and Gildas Morvan, who emerged as clear winners last year with back-to-back race wins on Lan Ael 3, are not returning to defend their title. Neither are the JPK10.10s that took places two and four. However, another 1010, Jean-André Hebel’s Les P'tits Doudous en Duo, was third last year and only two points short of taking the runners up position. This was followed by winning IRC Two-Handed in the Rolex Fastnet Race. Full story 👉 https://ow.ly/tp0o50StTmj #RORCracing #IRCrating #IRCDHEuros 📸 Paul Wyeth/RORC

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Mike Rockenfeller is set to partner Gianmaria Bruni at the upcoming IMSA - International Motor Sports Association #LongBeach sprint race due to a clash with the #6HImola for Proton Competition. Read more ⤵️ #IMSA #AGPLB #Porsche #Motorsport #Sportscars

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