Template:Did you know nominations/The Panther

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The result was: promoted by Crisco 1492 (talk) 01:13, 1 April 2012 (UTC)

The Panther

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... that The Panther, the favourite for the 1919 Epsom Derby, became agitated before the race and finished unplaced, possibly due to the presence of a mare ridden by a mounted policeman?

Comment: No QPQ review is required according to current DYK rules, but I'll leave a note on the author's usertalkpage to encourage him to do one. --PFHLai (talk) 23:50, 18 March 2012 (UTC)

Created/expanded by Tigerboy1966 (talk). Nominated by PFHLai (talk) at 23:50, 18 March 2012 (UTC)

New enough, long enough, generally well referenced. The hook fact is adequately referenced and interesting, although the relevant sentence in the article uses "who" and could therefore be misread as referring to the policeman, and might also usefully make clear that the mare was directly ahead of The Panther as he was ridden at the head of the parade. I can't see the Biographical Encyclopedia of British Flat Racing, which is the reference for the heart disease, and this will therefore have to be an AGF tick/checkmark, but I checked most of the other references and found neither content inaccuracy nor close paraphrasing - except that there's an issue with the withdrawal of Stefan the Great. Note 13 does not say he was withdrawn due to failure to recover from injury. Note 15 (which by the way reprints a Daily Mail column and should probably say so) simply says he was scratched. So that fact needs a corrected reference. Otherwise good to go. Yngvadottir (talk) 19:22, 27 March 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing out these issues. I have added one new ref and rearranged a couple of others. I have also rearranged a sentence so that it no longer implies that the policeman was "in season" (the British Police breeding season is of course in autumn). I often use the Biographical Encyclopedia... as a starting point before building the article with online sources, but there are usually one or two facts that I can't reference elsewhere. Tigerboy1966 20:12, 27 March 2012 (UTC)

Yup, that fixes the referencing problem and clarifies who was in season on that particular day '-) Offline refs are perfectly ok but I have limited access, hence the AGF tick rather than the other. Yngvadottir (talk) 20:35, 27 March 2012 (UTC)