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Ocean Downs dispute halts betting - Chincoteague Beacon
BERLIN — A contract dispute between Ocean Downs Racetrack and local horsemen has halted simulcast wagering, and closed the practice facilities to trainers until an agreement can be reached. The Cloverleaf Standardbred Owners’ Association, which

SHOP On Racing Contract - Standardbred Canada
In a release to the industry, The Standardbred Horse Owners Panel (SHOP) has announced its support for the continuation of harness racing at Woodbine Racetrack. The release stated that SHOP believes it is in the best interests of harness racing to

USC takes 17-7 lead over Penn State in Rose Bowl - Los Angeles Times
The defensive battle everyone expected in the 95th Rose Bowl game started off that way . . . And is now looking more like a track meet. David Buehler kicked a 30-yard field goal to give USC a 17-7 lead with 7 minutes left before halftime. USC has

MOST PEOPLE who become interested in racing, if pinned down and forced to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, would admit that they know very little about horses, racing and the figuring of winners. Whether or not they admit these facts to you or to me, nevertheless they know them in their own hearts. The net result of this condition is to throw a substantial majority of bettors on the mercy of those who claim to know what it is all about. Hence, at a track, you will see spectators running about with a racing sheet, their eyes glued on the selectors’ pages rather than on the pages where the cold past performance records of the horses are displayed. Or you will see them consulting the graded handicaps of a single selector employed by a daily newspaper, or perhaps a consensus of the opinions of selectors on several papers in the same city. If they are not following the selectors on a racing sheet or a regular newspaper, the chances are they will be following the choices of a scratch-sheet or a tip-card sold at the track. And if they are doing none of these things the odds are that they are betting what they fondly believe to be stable information, or a friend’s tip, or anybody else’s tip.

Tracks muddy or off. It is notorious that upsets occur most commonly on muddy or heavy tracks. Horses that fig ure to win do so less consistently when the track is off. Therefore, although some animals are known to like soft footing, it is best to confine play to courses that are fast or good on the particular day. Quitters that can negotiate the going at all seem somewhat less addicted to giving up in the stretch when the track is muddy. Whether this is on account of their action, shorter and choppier than that of a long-striding route-horse, or whether it is because such front-runners throw mud from their heels in the faces of animals chasing them, I do not know. But the fact is curious.

Western Mass. fans regret passing of nearby greyhound race track - Union-News & Sunday Republican
Edwin “Soupy” Tulik of Ludlow went to Hinsdale, N.H., Greyhound Park so often, he swears that his car knew the way. “Just point it in that direction and I’d be there,” he said. “An hour and 15 minutes from my house. And I even learned how to coast

Racing Diary: Cheltenham’s early warning system pays off - Daily Telegraph
Undercover: Sandown Park is blanketed in frost covers, but unfortunately too late to save the meeting Photo: GETTY IMAGES The big lesson that Cheltenham learned last week is that if you are in for a lengthy period of frost, the key to success is to

Safety, integrity top 09 racing priorities - Saratogian
SARATOGA SPRINGS The state s chief racing regulator wants to reduce equine injuries by developing a better system for reporting such incidents. New York State Racing and Wagering Board Chairman John Sabini said he s initiated discussions with

Woodbine Draw Complete - Standardbred Canada
Trot Insider has learned that the draw for the Thursday, January 1 card of racing at Woodbine Racetrack has been completed and the entries are now online. A 10-race card has been drawn for the New Years Day matinee program that starts at 1:20 p.m

FAN CAN BLOW AWAY RIVALS - Sporting Life
Elsworth - trains Newlyn Art. FAN CAN BLOW AWAY RIVALS E-mail Article Print-Friendly Subscribe to RSS Feed Post to del.icio.us Facebook By Keith Hamer, PA Sport Click here for online betting shop Click here for Racing Radio Click here for desktop

Vegas dispute over revenue distribution flares up - ESPN.com
A dispute over the distribution of revenue between Nevada casinos and tracks owned by Churchill Downs and Magna Entertainment threatens to disrupt betting in casino race books later this week. The current contract ends on Wednesday, and a meeting

Listener has the attributes to steal Nicholls’ thunder - Independent
Share With question marks over many of the big players in the Lexus Chase at Leopardstown tomorrow, there is no shortage of options from a betting point of view. Once again it is a Paul Nicholls raider, Neptune Collonges, which heads the market for

Ocean Downs dispute halts betting - Chincoteague Beacon
BERLIN — A contract dispute between Ocean Downs Racetrack and local horsemen has halted simulcast wagering, and closed the practice facilities to trainers until an agreement can be reached. The Cloverleaf Standardbred Owners’ Association, which

TOP SPORTS FACE BETTING SCAM PROBE - Daily Express
The 27 events being probed include seven football matches, two of which are understood to have been Premier League fixtures, and 11 horse races. Five football league clashes are also being investigated by the Gambling Commission. The Coca-Cola League

There is no easy money at the tracks. A novice had bet ter attempt to wear through his novitiate by studying handicapping and betting on paper. Not until he can get about forty winners in each hundred attempts, and can get them at prices close to 2/1 or higher, should a new comer to the game go to a track and reach for his wallet. And when he has become as good as the figures just given indicate he can know that he is just as good as any horse-player in this world ever has been or ever will be.

Players concerned about betting accounts after Hinsdale case - Thoroughbred Times
Horseplayers throughout the country are re-evaluating account deposit wagering after a bankruptcy put nearly a half-million dollars in bettors money at risk. On December 15, the Hinsdale Greyhound Racing Association filed for bankruptcy. The track

Listener has the attributes to steal Nicholls’ thunder - Independent
Share With question marks over many of the big players in the Lexus Chase at Leopardstown tomorrow, there is no shortage of options from a betting point of view. Once again it is a Paul Nicholls raider, Neptune Collonges, which heads the market for

Nearly all hustlers operate in the same manner Equipped with nothing but nerves of brass and a good memory for faces, they try to cover each race by giving each horse in it to a different person in the very sure; expectation that something they have dished out will corned in first so that they will have given a winner to someone,. In the event of a dead heat they will have had two win ners with two different suckers and can attempt to collect twice for their unerring information. The whole racket’ is as simple as that. A hustler may be or may have been anyone. He may be a stable hand, who grooms horses and walks “hots’* when he is working and victimizes the innocent when he is loose among the crowd. He may have been a trainer or a small owner who has fallen on evil days, lost his license or his horses, and is trying to make a living the best he can. He may be a former jockey, grounded by weight or for misdeeds. But whatever he may have been, and what ever he claims to be, he is nothing for a player to follow with money. A tout may be a person of relative integrity and confine himself to tipping just one horse in a race. In fact he may be so hopelessly mired in the swamp of the tracks as to think that his own opinions are worth something, and rush about dealing out his next hoped-for winner to all and sundry in the utmost good faith. But hustlers who give out only one horse in a race are scarce because this kind starves to death much sooner than the tout who follow* the tried and true procedure of covering each race by giving each horse in it in turn to a different individual or group.