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Neil Clarkson | 28 October 2015
It was the American writer Mark Twain who popularised the expression, “Lies, damned lies, and statistics”.
It refers to the usefulness of statistics to boost pretty much any argument you choose.
So, with that in mind, I’m going to compare the results of the big national (CEN) 100km endurance ride staged at Al Wathba, in Abu Dhabi, on Thursday last week.
The endurance results on the Emirates Equestrian Federation website show a few qualifying events in the previous month, but the Al Wathba race was billed in the media as the season opener – and, of course, was staged under FEI rules...
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