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OasisCasino's Dog Days Contest has a Winner! Posted @ 12:44 by Webmaster
Today Oasis Casino and Sportsbook announced that Geoffrey S. was awarded the $1000 Grand Prize in the “Dog Days of Summer” contest, a season-long baseball handicapping exhibition.
“Our average customer is an avid sports fan who not only wishes to wager on a variety of sporting events, but test his handicapping prowess against our other clients,” said Randolph Shea, Director of Corporate Communication. “We developed the ‘Dog Days of Summer’ contest in order to give our clients a unique interactive handicapping experience.”
The “Dog Days of Summer” contest invited Oasis Casino clients to successfully pick baseball underdogs in an attempt to accumulate points while competing for a weekly cash prize. All contestants were eligible to win the Grand Prize of $1,000, which was awarded to the contestant with the most points at the conclusion of the regular season.
Having participated in the contest since its inception, Geoffrey earned his first weekly prize in a timely fashion, as his final round victory gave him enough points to take home the contest’s ultimate prize.
Funny Cide, the 2003 Derby and Preakness winner, returns to the limelight as the chestnut gelding joins defending champion Pleasantly Perfect, Belmont Stakes winner Birdstone and perhaps the great mare Azeri in a field of 13 pre-entered for the BC Classic at Lone Star Park in Texas on Oct. 30.
A total of 101 horses were pre-entered Wednesday for the eight-race, $14 million racing extravaganza billed as the World Thoroughbred Championships.
The Classic field should live up to its name -- with or without Azeri, who was cross-entered in the $2 million Breeders' Cup Distaff. Owner Michael Paulson has until next Wednesday, when final entries are drawn, to decide which race his 2002 Horse of the Year will run.
Funny Cide, coming off a stirring victory in the Jockey Club Gold Cup, will also take on Woodward Stakes winner Ghostzapper and Whitney Handicap winner Roses in May. Both colts are unbeaten this year.
Also pre-entered for the 1 1/4 -mile Classic were Bowman's Band, Dynever, Fantasticat, Freefourinternet, Newfoundland, Perfect Drift and Personal Rush.
Four of the races drew full 14-horse fields, with three -- the BC Juvenile Fillies, the BC Mile and the BC Sprint -- oversubscribed. Final fields are determined by a two-tiered ranking system.
Smarty Jones, retired after his Triple Crown try was spoiled by Birdstone in the Belmont, remains the favorite to win Horse of the Year, but a Classic win by one of several horses could make the final vote interesting.
Last year, Mineshaft was retired before the Breeders' Cup but was Horse of the Year.
Trainer Todd Pletcher has horses pre-entered in six races, including Newfoundland in the BC Classic, Proud Accolade in the $1.5 million BC Juvenile, and Ashado in the Distaff. Trainer Richard Mandella, who set a Breeders' Cup record with four winners last year, returns with only one horse -- Pleasantly Perfect.
Azeri, trained by D. Wayne Lukas, would probably be the favorite in the Distaff, a race that drew 12 pre-entries, including Grade 1 stakes winners Island Fashion, Society Selection, Stellar Jayne and Storm Flag Flying. Azeri, coming off a win in the Spinster Stakes, won the Distaff in 2002 but was injured and did not run in last year's edition.
Sightseek, perhaps the top female this year, was retired after winning the Beldame on Oct. 9.
Besides Pleasantly Perfect, two other winners are back from a year ago -- Cajun Beat in the $1 million BC Sprint and Six Perfections in the $1 million BC Mile.
The Juvenile, which usually determines the early favorite for next year's Kentucky Derby, has the usual cast of trainers looking for a win. Four-time Derby winner Lukas pre-entered Consolidator, two-time Derby winner Nick Zito has Sun King and three-time Derby winner Bob Baffert has Roman Ruler -- his only Breeders' Cup starter. Afleet Alex, though, could be the favorite based on four wins in five starts.
The $1.5 million Juvenile Fillies includes Frizette winner Balletto, the Pletcher-trained Ready's Gal, Darley Alcibiades winner Runway Model, Matron winner Sense of Style and Oak Leaf winner Sweet Catomine.
The always contentious Sprint features the likes of Bwana Charlie, Champali, Clock Stopper, Midas Eyes, and Speightstown taking on Cajun Beat.
In the $2 million Turf, Kitten's Joy looks like the horse to beat in an 11-horse field. The 3-year-old colt owned by Ken and Sarah Ramsey has won six of seven starts this year, including the Secretariat Stakes and the Joe Hirsch Turf Classic in his last two starts. Also pre-entered were Balto Star, Magistretti and Europe-based Powerscourt and the 3-year-old filly Ouija Board.
The Mile drew the largest field at 19. Among the likely challengers to the 4-year-old filly Six Perfections are Blackdoun from France, Kelso Breeders' Cup Handicap winner Mr O'Brien, Shadwell Turf Mile winner Nothing to Lose, and Eddie Read Handicap winner Special Ring.
The Ramseys also own Roses in May and Nothing to Lose.
The Filly & Mare Turf will have seven foreign-bred horses, including expected favorite Light Jig, trained by Bobby Frankel, and Katdogawm -- both from England. Also in the field is Riskaverse, winner of the Flower Bowl Invitational.
Azeri was one of seven horses cross-entered. The others were Domestic Dispute (Mile, Sprint), Balto Star (Mile, Turf), Bowman's Band (Classic, Mile), Freefourinternet (Classic, Mile), Ouija Board (Turf, Filly & Mare Turf) and Nebraska Tornado (Distaff, Filly & Mare Turf).
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New Jersey horse bettors still shut out from New York Posted @ 8:18 by Webmaster
With no end in sight to a long-running dispute, New Jersey's horse players are going to have to get used to life without betting action on New York's top tracks from West of the Hudson.
The signal that beams races from Belmont Park, Aqueduct and Saratoga to the Meadowlands, Monmouth Park and Freehold Racway was turned off on Sept. 15, and racing officials say there is little hope they will be able to begin receiving the races anytime soon.
With no races from New York being shown, New Jersey's racetracks are losing roughly $150,000 per day in bets placed on races from Belmont Park. While that is a small percentage of the hundreds of millions of dollars bet each year in New Jersey, the losses are becoming noticeable as the dispute enters its second month.
"Not having that signal is not good for us or our customers," said Chris McErlean, a top racing executive at the Meadowlands and Monmouth Park.
The dispute, caused by an exclusive deal the New York Racing Association signed with a television and gaming network, is an example of the growing pains the racing industry is enduring as people begin watching and betting on racing from their couches instead of at the track. The network, TVG, is becoming a force in the racing industry as it attempts to become the country's video and at-home gambling hub for horse racing.
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Sunday, October 17, 2004
Free Horse Racing Picks - Monday (10/18) Posted @ 8:27 by Webmaster
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Free Picks - Belmont, Delaware, Keeneland & Santa Anita (10/16) Saturday Posted @ 5:53 by Webmaster
Horse Racing Picks 10/16 Saturday
BELMONT PARK
R#9 is The Lawrence Realization Stakes (G3), $100,000 Purse race1: 12,2,6,3 race2: 3,5,6,4 race3: 1a,5,4 race4: 3,4,5,1 race5: 2,4,3 race6: 4,5,1,2 race7: 7,5,3,1 race8: 7,2,6,1a, race9: 7,10,9,5 race10: 1,2,3,5
DELAWARE PARK
R#8 is The Caesar Rodney Handicap, $200,000 Purse; R#10 is The Gladys Brown Edwards Arabian Cup Distaff Championship Stakes (G1), $80,000 Purse; R#11 is The Arabian Cup Championship Juvenile Fillies Stakes (G1), $50,000 Purse race1: 2,6,7,3 race2: 8,11,10,7 race3: 4,2,5,6 race4: 5,7,10,2 race5: 5,8,6,1 race6: 4,5,7,1 race7: 5,6,4,7 race8: 7,10,5,9 race9: 4,5,3,2 race10: 2,6,8,4 race11: 2,8,5,6
KEENELAND
R#8 is The Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup Stakes (G1), $500,000 Purse race1: 6,4,3,1 race2: 4,2,3,6 race3: 4,8,5,12 race4: 2,5,3,8 race5: 14,4,8,1 race6: 6,1,3,4 race7: 4,7,10,3 race8: 3,1,5,2 race9: 3,8,11,9 race10: 4,8,3,2
SANTA ANITA PARK
R#1 is The California Cup Distance Handicap, $100,000 Purse; R#3 is The California Cup Matron Handicap, $150,000 Purse; R#4 is The California Cup Juvenile Stakes, $125,000 Purse; R#6 is The California Cup Sprint Handicap, $150,000 Purse; R#7 is The California Cup Distaff Handicap, $150,000 Purse; R#8 is The California Cup Classic Handicap, $250,000 Purse; R#9 is The California Cup Mile Handicap, $175,000 Purse; R#10 is The California Cup Juvenile Fillies Stakes, $125,000 Purse race1: 2,6,1,4 race2: 3,7,8,4 race3: 6,3,5,2 race4: 2,5,3,8 race5: 2,3,1,6 race6: 9,5,10,8 race7: 1,12,4,5 race8: 3,5,4,1 race9: 9,4,6,11 race10: 3,1,8,5
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The $4 million Breeders' Cup Classic is shaping up as a doozy of a race -- even without Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner Smarty Jones