Talk:Gun Runner (horse)/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Sportsfan77777 (talk · contribs) 00:08, 17 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I'll review this article within the next week. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 00:08, 17 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Aspening: Sorry I haven't gotten to this yet. I still intend to review it, but probably not this week. In the meantime, one of the major comments I have is that there should be a statistics chart showing all of the race results like in California Chrome or Shackleford.

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This link is dead: Charts for the 2017 Breeders' Cup http://www.equibase.com/static/chart/pdf/DMR110417USA.pdf
The prose is very good!
The main thing I have to suggest is to better summarize each section. As of now, most of his racing history is described race by race. At the beginning of the 2016 and 2017 sections, you could briefly summarize his season: State his most important races and/or race wins from the onset. You could also mention which horses were his biggest rivals each year.
The lead could also be improved in a similar way. For instance, rather than listing his 2017 results: "As a four-year-old in 2017, he finished second in the Dubai World Cup, then went on to win the Stephen Foster Handicap, Whitney Stakes, Woodward Stakes, and Breeders' Cup Classic", you could emphasize which of those races is the most important (I assume the Breeders Cup Classic), and/or state that he won four big races (without necessarily needing to list all of them).
As I said above, I think you should add a statistics chart listing all of the race results (see e.g. California Chrome or Shackleford).

@Aspening: Overall, I think the article is in good shape. The statistics chart is the biggest comment. Placing on hold. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 06:12, 8 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Sportsfan77777: Thanks for the review. Might need a little bit more time to finish making the improvements here; I've got some stuff going on and will probably get it done within the next day. Aspening (talk) 03:03, 16 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Sportsfan77777: Chart and summaries added. Let me know what you think. Jlvsclrk (talk) 06:09, 22 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Jlvsclrk: Thanks for the help! I made a few more tweaks, and will pass the review. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 02:07, 23 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Sportsfan77777: Sorry I was gone for so long! I had some stuff come up off-wiki. Jlvsclrk, thanks so much for helping out. Aspening (talk) 02:16, 26 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]