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There's disappointingly little about actual horse racing in the article.
by HelloNurse 9y ago
There's disappointingly little about actual horse racing in the article.
- jaclaz 9y agoSure, but basically the Palio is everything BUT the race. It is all the before and the after that is much more interesting that the race itself. In that the article is very well made.
- qubex 9y agoThat's an interesting statement actually, firstly because I (and almost everybody else) tend to agree, and secondly, because if one then segues to suggest that the horse-racing component be significantly modified or even removed, those same people recoil in horror and vehemently protect the centrality of the horse-racing component. This would seem to be somewhat paradoxical, but I have observed this often.
- HelloNurse 9y agoWinning the race is the whole point, everything else is overoptimization and overcomplication of the horse race, developed in hundreds of years and hundreds of runs. For instance, what would you celebrate about without racing?
- jaclaz 9y agoIt is like saying that (say) the Monopoly or Risk game revolve around throwing a coupe of dices (which is actually what they revolve around). Still the actual dice throwing is the least interesting part.