Talk:Match racing

Weather gage
In Weather gage, there is a statement that the pre-start circling in match races is to gain the weather gage. I'm not sure this is correct (see Talk:Weather gage). Could somebody who really understands match racing please check it out and correct if need be? RoySmith 8 July 2005 11:37 (UTC)

Match Races for horses, people too
There is a tradition in horse racing whereby the term match race applies when two horses compete in a race not open to any other horses. Maybe disambiguation is needed between the sailing term of art, and the use of the same expression in other sports? Match races for human runners are also not unheard of. Unfortunately from this reader's perspective, in at least one Wikipedia article, a footrace involving multiple competitors is called a "match race" between the two leading competitors: see the article on Jim Ryun, and the race in which he and Marty Liquori were the standouts. Publius3 09:15, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

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 * is this being judged by the Borelli or the Crowe quality metrics? If we don't know the answer to this question there isn't much point commenting. Sorry to point out the obvious.  Tigerboy1966   21:33, 27 May 2012 (UTC)

Horses
This is really a sailing article with a bit of horse racing tacked on. I would suggest renaming the article Match racing (sailing) and starting a new one called Match (horse race).  Tigerboy1966  09:02, 26 April 2015 (UTC)

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Events
In the early 1990is there was Omega Grand Prix of Match Race Sailing. There was Match racing world championship (open) until it was replaced by the World Match Racing Tour (winner of the WMRT was given the title of the world champion). After WMRT transitioned to (too expensive) catamarans, European Match Race Tour (on monohulls) was started in 2017. Today still exists women's match racing world championship. Women's match racing was part of the ISAF world cup in its initial seasons. Setenzatsu (talk) 18:15, 24 April 2019 (UTC)