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Old 04-16-2010, 11:44 AM
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Beginning today, the depiction of horse, rider, and trainer (presumably a trainer) in the center of the iconic Daily Racing Form logo has been replaced by a running horse.

The old logo looks like it could be Seabiscuit, Red Pollard, and Tom Smith. The new one looks like Zenyatta flying down the stretch. And that's the point. A new century and new technologies deserve a new mascot.

http://www.drf.com/news/article/112218.html
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Old 04-16-2010, 11:55 AM
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The new treatment is fine but it demonstrates a slight misunderstanding of the paper's role as defined by the trainer (or groom) leading horse and rider.
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Old 04-16-2010, 12:12 PM
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Now I know why the paper went to $7
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Old 04-16-2010, 12:18 PM
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What do you mean?
It may just be may consumer packaged goods marketing background reading into the imaging, but to me, the horse being led to the post or workout ideally paralleled the horseplayer being led postward with the paper and its' content.
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Old 04-16-2010, 12:31 PM
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I would let them go to $7.50 if all the newsprint didnt come off in your hand
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Old 04-16-2010, 02:26 PM
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I think it's a perfect fit with today's ADHD society.
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Old 04-16-2010, 02:45 PM
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Looks like absolute sh!t.

The horse, a grey no less, is wearing a white plastic bridle, the lynchpin symbol of racing's decline.

It's probably also running over a synthetic surface...
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Old 04-16-2010, 03:25 PM
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Awesome...I think I'll run out and buy four or five now even though I use Brisnet's to handicap.
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Old 04-16-2010, 10:44 PM
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its ok was do for a change.
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Old 04-17-2010, 12:27 AM
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Its still better than than the 2012 Summer Olympic Logo
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Old 04-17-2010, 01:33 AM
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its ok was do for a change.
*violently stabs self*
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Old 04-18-2010, 08:29 AM
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The old logo had done enough.
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Old 04-21-2010, 09:38 PM
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http://hovdeyblog.drf.com/hovdeyblog...kening-to.html
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