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Tabcorp Surges After Keeping Dividend Amid Writedowns (Update1) - Bloomberg
Aug. 7 (Bloomberg) — Tabcorp Holdings Ltd. , Australia’s biggest gaming company, jumped the most in five months in Sydney trading after maintaining dividend payouts amid writedowns to its slot-machine and betting-shop units. Tabcorp rose 6.6 percent

HORSE RACING Bay Meadows enters home stretch - San Francisco Gate
(08-05) 17:24 PDT — The final race meeting in the 75-year history of Bay Meadows begins today with the San Mateo County Fair, but leave it to track President Jack Liebau to find some humor in an otherwise sad situation. “Perhaps the best marketing

Ladbrokes Profit Slides After Ascot Favorites Prevail (Update3) - Bloomberg
Aug. 7 (Bloomberg) — Ladbrokes Plc , owner of more than 2,300 U.K. and Irish betting shops, said first-half profit fell 30 percent after wins by favorites at the Royal Ascot horseracing festival compounded cost increases and fewer telephone wagers

Harness racing gets Richland Co. started - Mansfield News Journal
MANSFIELD — Jerry Stuff had his ear almost up to the speaker at the Richland County Fair grandstand, trying to find out if he was a winner or not. “That’s good,” the Mansfield man said when he heard Gadjet, the horse he’d bet to win, place and show

Into the darkness - Twin Falls Times-News
Ten years ago, one of Kathleen Truscott’s horses started losing sight in his right eye. The pale, spotted appaloosa, then about 8 years old, is named Gus after a “Cinderella” character, and he’s a favorite for his personality. “Gus is an excellent

Tracks betting on slot players becoming horse fans - NWITimes.com
Slot machines are drawing more people to Indiana’s two pari-mutuel tracks _ but track officials may face long odds in converting those gamblers into the horse racing fans needed to bolster the struggling industry. Hoosier Park in Anderson and Indiana

Horse Racing - Buffalo News
The Triple Crown season in the United States ended with Da’Tara winning the Belmont Stakes, and the Canadian Triple Crown series, for 3-year-olds foaled in Canada wrapped up Aug. 3 with Marlang winning the $500,000 Breeders’ Stakes at Woodbine

HORSE RACING: Md. tracks slash stakes schedule - Delmarva Now
BALTIMORE Maryland’s struggling horse racing industry announced today that several stakes races, including the Grade 1 Frank J. De Francis Dash, will be slashed from the fall schedule. The Maryland Jockey Club also decided to close Pimlico Race

An aged horse which has been winning a good percent age of his races in a season almost always will be found to be an animal of former class dropped ‘way down in quality of opposition, pitted against a class of horse that could not have warmed him up in years before. Real racing class in a Thoroughbred implies courage and hon esty of effort, and a good horse as he ages will not lose all of this. He still can beat cheap ones of the sort he never would have been entered against formerly, but he is racing on borrowed time and a player who backs him is assuming something more than the risk inherent in any bet.

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.

HORSE RACING: Md. tracks slash stakes schedule - Delmarva Now
BALTIMORE Maryland’s struggling horse racing industry announced today that several stakes races, including the Grade 1 Frank J. De Francis Dash, will be slashed from the fall schedule. The Maryland Jockey Club also decided to close Pimlico Race

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.

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An aged horse which has been winning a good percent age of his races in a season almost always will be found to be an animal of former class dropped ‘way down in quality of opposition, pitted against a class of horse that could not have warmed him up in years before. Real racing class in a Thoroughbred implies courage and hon esty of effort, and a good horse as he ages will not lose all of this. He still can beat cheap ones of the sort he never would have been entered against formerly, but he is racing on borrowed time and a player who backs him is assuming something more than the risk inherent in any bet.

The first problem a player must lick is to train himself to find horses really solid, horses that really do figure to win quite apart from the prices they will pay, whether short or long. The second problem for a player is to de velop such confidence in his own judgment that he will not be afraid to back his independently selected horses on occasions when they are going at good prices. All his profits over a period will be found on later analysis to have come from such horses. On the short-priced favorites that he had to take because he could find nothing else worth a bet he will have made nothing material, will have broken about even, or will have sustained a loss.