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As long as the entire media, even me, is writing about horseracing just because there's some movie out about it, I should pass on to you my favorite comment on the subject, made by Lord Salisbury, the unusually level-headed man who served as British Prime Minister in the 1880s and 1890s. With little sympathy for the more traditionally aristocratic priorities of his political associates, he complained on one occasion, "Hartington is at Newmarket and all political arrangements have to be hung up till some quadruped has run faster than some other quadruped."