Racing at Newmarket

Racing at Newmarket

This Daisy Chart was produced using the drawing template, newmark.dyt, using the data file, newmark.txt, supplied with all versions of Daisy. It is a graphical representation of all the horse races at Newmarket in 1992.

This is one of a family of Daisy Charts supplied with the Tutorial. See Jockeys, Owners and Trainers for more details of similar charts.

The data has been analysed into three sets of nodes, each of which is shown as an arc of the circular Daisy Chart. These are the Jockey, Trainer and Owner.

Three histograms are shown on each node; the number of races won, green, the total prize money won, violet and the average prize money won, red.

The lines of links between the nodes show the relative strengths of the connections between nodes. In this Daisy Chart, they are shown in terms of the prize money won. Note how Lester Piggott is top jockey in terms of money, but not in terms of races!

If the weighting is removed from this Daisy Chart, a totally different set of answers is given. Try it!