The Campaign

They’re Off!

In attempting to calculate the starting odds in the Big Race, the form sheet is an inadequate guide. Past performance does not provide a criterion from which to draw a conclusion—or establish a basis for the betting. Past performance itself needs a second look. Track conditions are not the same. The entries are the same, yet not the same. Four years have made changes in both, and they have made changes in public opinion. Let’s take a brief backward glance at “les temps perdu.”