Read the Footnotes

by Micah on May 1, 2004

Place your bets! In about two minutes, I hope this “horse”:http://www.kentuckyderby.com/2004/derby_coverage/derby_entrants/read_the_footnotes/ wins. What a triumph it would be for academics worldwide. Wondering where the name comes from? Here’s my conjecture: the owner is Seth Klarman, who is the brother of “Michael Klarman”:http://www.law.virginia.edu/lawweb/lawweb2.nsf/pages/lev2calc?OpenDocument&Fr1=yyy/lawweb/Faculty.nsf/FHPbI/4143&Fr2=/home2002/frames/lf_faculty.htm, who is the author of this absolutlely terrific “book”:http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0195129032/qid=1083449216/sr=8-1/ref=pd_ka_1/104-9058318-2257562?v=glance&s=books&n=507846, which has many, many footnotes. But that’s just a guess.

UPDATE: Alas, “defeat”:http://www.kentuckyderby.com/2004/.

{ 4 comments }

1

John Quiggin 05.01.04 at 11:44 pm

Well, at least Imperialism was beaten into third!

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bunny 05.02.04 at 7:21 am

Without doing research before watching the race, I was terribly afraid it had something to do with Ann Coulter (Colter?). You’ve restored my faith in equine-kind.

3

rm 05.03.04 at 2:13 am

I figured it had something to do with the famous Derby winner “Citation.” Sort of a longer version of the name.

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Fred 05.03.04 at 3:53 pm

According to the April 30 Louisville Courier-Journal, my local paper:

Read the Footnotes: Co-owner Seth Klarman is a wealthy man because of his knowledge of all things Wall Street, and one of his pet peeves is a thorough examination of any prospectus. “`Read the footnotes,’ he says,” according to trainer Richard Violette Jr.

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