The Brigadier has the greatest statistical record in terms of victories but did not beat the same class of opponents.

BBC: SPORT | Other Sport | Horse Racing | Grandstand: Have Your Say | Your all-time favourite racehorses

Nijinsky has the best statistical record in terms of big races but did not have as good opponents as Mill Reef, who I personally vote the best post-war British Racehorse.

BBC: SPORT | Other Sport | Horse Racing | Grandstand: Have Your Say | Your all-time favourite racehorses

The final pavilion, 'Reform and Inspire', focuses on the little known sequel to the Crimean years: the half-century during which Nightingale's reforming power was felt across the entire public health spectrum - not just nursing, but also hospital design, midwifery, workhouse reform, army health reform, together with the pioneering use of statistical data to record and analyse the nation's health.

BBC: Florence Nightingale: Legend of the Lady with the Lamp

Some professional investors put money with feeder funds linked to Bernie Madoff, for example, even though statistical analysis suggested his performance record was implausibly smooth.

ECONOMIST: Buttonwood

In fact, three of the worst 10-year periods of real returns have come in the past six months, a record that practically begs for statistical redress.

FORBES: Rebuilding Global Markets

With their record of finding elephant fields, "it becomes almost a statistical play at some point, " Musselman says.

FORBES: One Tamed Wildcat

With their record of finding huge fields, "it becomes almost a statistical play at some point, " Musselman says.

FORBES: One Tamed Wildcat