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The result was: promoted by —♦♦ AMBER(ЯʘCK) 14:04, 23 April 2013 (UTC).
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Elis (horse)
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- ... that less than two weeks after Elis (pictured) won the 1835 St. Leger Stakes, 21 horses were withdrawn from the colt's next scheduled race?
Created by Tigerboy1966 (talk). Nominated by PFHLai (talk) at 10:59, 15 April 2013 (UTC).
- Article - created new on 13 April, so new enough; 7740 characters of readable prose, so long enough; neutral; no copy vios detected using earwig; assessed as C class, so not a stub.
- Hook - within length criteria at 140 characters; correctly formatted; correctly cited/supported by ref #17 in last paragraph of '1836 season' section; and interesting.
- Not a self nomination, so no QPQ required; image is PD.
Just a couple of quick queries:
- I may be being dim but I'm reading the ref as stating 21 horses frightened out of the field, not 22?
- To comply with DYK rules, the second paragraph of the background requires a citation.
- Minor suggestion - would the hook read better as 'less than' rather than 'within'? (I'm not really treating this as an ALT as it's more a grammatical thing) SagaciousPhil - Chat 12:29, 16 April 2013 (UTC)
- Added ref from print source. Hook should say 21 not 22. Should read either "within... of" or "less than... after". Tigerboy1966 18:02, 16 April 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for sorting these so quickly. I've corrected the grammar in the hook - it is still 140 characters; all paragraphs now have at least one inline citations and this nomination complies with all DYK requirements. SagaciousPhil - Chat 19:13, 16 April 2013 (UTC)