Talk:Camarine

A fact from Camarine appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 16 November 2012 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the British racehorse Camarine's career was compared to that of Eclipse and she also won a trophy made of his tail hairs?

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Forgotten great?

Unfortunately horses from the 19th century which didn't win a classic or make a big impact at stud tend to be forgotten, no matter how good they were, and Camarine was very, very good. By 1832 she was effectively killing any race she entered as the opposition rapidly found alternative engagements. Tigerboy1966 18:55, 11 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Wins

When ennumerating Camarine's wins I am really using an anachronistic approach, but I can't see an alternative. My approach is to treat a walkover as a win, but to ignore occasions were a forfeit was paid. In the former case there was a race, but there happened to be only one runner. In the latter, the race never happened, and the "winner" didn't have to be present. I have used this method for all the articles I've started on old-time racehorses, I think I would call it the least bad option. Tigerboy1966 19:06, 11 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]