I can take the infomercial aspect of all this -- the pumped fists, the roar of victory, the clichés of American greatness emanating from one speech after another, even the endless media reduction of democracy to horse-race stats -- but I am a long way from being aboard the Hillary bandwagon.
Derby Diary #2's informant, one Robert Nastanovich, late of Pavement and now an employee of Equibase (the horse racing stats company), once drunkenly bowled over Richard Dreyfuss on the way into Churchill Downs on one first Saturday in May.
It is recommended that you breed frogs with high racing stats for the maximum effect.
Develop the classes, stats, races, stat percentages (effects and for if for example, for every 1 STR you have it adds another 2-4 damage, but after level 4 it adds 4-8), bestiary, professions if you want too, effects such as poison, freeze burn and stun, equipment (there should be slots.
He's right that race-based stats are hard to come by, partially because neither the police nor any formal agency in the country keep track of things like how many black people are killed by cops.
Balthazar King, last year's runner-up, jumps really well and has been trained for months with this race in mind; the stats give mixed messages about his chances, but what a story if jockey Richard Johnson, perennial championship runner-up to AP McCoy, stole the limelight on this of all occasions.
"He's a surgeon, but he's seen every race and knows every stat.
The races do impact your stats.
The last couple of years have been filled with diversity reports with stats around gender, race, POC and women in leadership positions and technical roles, and so on.
