Joe Torre must have brought Zenyatta to the locker room to have a chat with the boys of summer as the Dodgers have been on a tear winning 9 in a row, before falling to the Padres on Wednesday.
NY Times - Zenyatta Is A Dodger
Padres stop LA win streak at 9.
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Blessing a brewery? Where do you sign up for that kind of work>
National Post - Brewery To Be Blessed
Way back in 1516 the Bavarian Beer Purity Law set the ingredients for German beer.
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Hastings Park 2010 Fact Book is now available on their website.
Where is the Northlands Park 2010 Fact Book?
Guess thereīs no time to put one together when the Derby Girls are all that matter.
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Donīt blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.
John D. Rockefeller
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Hardy McGill will be taking over as VP of Racing and Gaming at Edmonton Northlands. Donīt know much about Hardyīs background except that he was once head of Investigations for Alberta Gaming and Liquor.
As one of Philīs readers said. Maybe the HPHR can give Hardy the task of using his investigative skills to find out where all the fans and their dollars have disappeared to.
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When Sugar Shannon Doyle replaced Mike Dimoff as thoroughbred caller, Phil was prepared to give him a chance. After fielding a number of e-mails that were rather uncomplimentary to Sugarīs calling for the first weekend, Phil put on his sleuth cap and listened to a number of replays. Far worse than I ever expected and the calls did not improve over the course of the weekend.
Phil would have been satisfied with Bush League.
How much research was performed on Sugarīs ability to call thoroughbred races before the decision to hire him was made? Who schooled him on thoroughbred racing? Is this a diabolical plan to destroy thoroughbred racing in this province so the jiggies can take over? Whatīs Plan B?
Would you buy Northlands thoroughbred simulcast signal if you heard Sugarīs calls from last weekend?
If I was CEO of an organization thatīs fighting for the rights to operate the new downtown arena in Edmonton Iīd ensure that every facet of my organizationīs operation reflected positively on the city.
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Donīt blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.
John D. Rockefeller
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NY Times: The Rail - Preakness Canīt Keep Derby Numbers
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Ny Times: the Rail - Busy Days Off Track
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Philīs New York Drinks and a flick
A pitcher of these
With either of these.
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The object of studying philosophy is to know oneīs own mind, not other peopleīs.
Dean Inge
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Monmouth
Monmouth starts with a bang
Survival At The Shore
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Hastings Racecourse
Clockers Corner Breakfast
Sunday May 23, 2010
9:30 - 11 AM PDT
Grandstand Patio
$3.00 Coffee and Muffin
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Bloodhorse. Fasig Tipton Mid-Atlantic Sale Posts Increases
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Bloodhorse - Preakness Bleakness
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Thereīs no such thing as good money or bad money. Thereīs just money.
Charlie "Lucky" Luciano
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Great new web site for Assiniboia Downs
Four can Dine for $89.95 and they wonīt count the calories.
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Bloodhorse - Haskin - Preakness Recap
NY Times: The Rail - Lucky A Worthy Winner
NY Times: The Rail - With A Little Bit Of Luck
Post Preakness Ponderings
Tom Durkin is one of best callers and thatīs why NBC uses him.
NY Times: the Rail - Post Preakness Gloom And Doom
Little time to celebrate
http://www.drf.com/news/article/113027.html
Neither Lucky nor Super heading to Belmont
Bloodhorse - No Belmont For Lucky
Derby, Preakness winners skip Belmont
Http://www.drf.com/news/article/113005.html
NY Times: The Rail - Sans Lucky et Super
Large Field For Belmont
Zito - Third Times the Charm
First Dude on to Belmont
No Triple Crown Excitement
New Madrid
Http://www.drf.com/news/article/113064.html
Horse Race Insider - Belmont Stakes
NY Times - The Rail - No Tarnish On Triple Crown
NY Times: The Rail - Belmont Attendance
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Will Oak Tree be Mighty again?
Http://www.drf.com/news/article/113017.html
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All pro sports, as well as the NCAA, should thank God every day we have sports betting here... We have the only agency in the world that regulates the honesty of games.
Meyer Lansky
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Social Costs of Gambling
San Jose Mercury News - Gambling
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Horse Race Insider - Lessons Of Weed Street
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After blowing his own horn about the 3% increase in live handle for Fridayīs opening night the shill hit the mute button about the handle for the rest of the weekend.
Before Phil was banned from Northlands Park he made a comment that the Butler should put up his salary to back his claim that the 2008 handle would average $300k a day. Iīm sure that comment was one of the reasons that Phil became persona non grata.
The handle never averaged $300K a day that year and has continued its slide down the slippery precipice.
If things continue the same way as opening weekend at Northlands they´ll be lucky to average $200K a day. That would be a drop of 33%.
Iīm sure that opening another OTB in the Beverly Crest will do wonders for the handle. Just rearranging the deck chairs on the goodship Titanic.
As Albert Einstein said: Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
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In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.
Learned Hand
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CANADIAN THOROUGHBRED HORSE SOCIETY
(British Columbia Division)
2010 Yearling & Mixed Sale
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Thunderbird Show Park, Langley, BC
NOMINATION DEADLINE
Friday, May 21, 2010.
Only Canadian-bred yearlings, weanlings and horses of racing age are eligible for entry into the 2010 Yearling and Mixed Sale
Canadian registration is required.
CANADIAN THOROUGHBRED HORSE SOCIETY
(British Columbia Division)
17687 - 56A Avenue,
Surrey, B.C. V3S 1G4
Fax # 604.574.5868
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Tribal Belle On Top In Hendrie
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2010 CTHS (Alberta Division) Thoroughbred Sale
Thursday September 23, 2010
Westerner Park Agricentre, Red Deer AB
Deadline for Entries
Friday July 2, 2010
The Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society
(Alberta Division)
Unit #218, 1935 - 32nd Avenue N.E.
Calgary AB T2E 7C8
Phone
403-229-3609 Fax
403-244-6909
Website: CTHS Alberta
Email: cthsalta@telusplanet.net
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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
Herman Melville
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For equestrian jewelry:
Bow River Jewelry Company
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May 22
Arlington Park
American 1000 Guineas, $200,000g, 3yo f, 8f (turf).
Arlington Classic, $100,000g, 3yo, 8.5f (turf).
Belmont Park
Sheepshead Bay Handicap GIIT, $150,000g, 3&up, Fillies & Mares, 11f (turf).
Calder Race Course
Mecke Stakes, $50,000g, 3&up, 9f (turf).
Churchill Downs
Louisville Handicap GIIIT, $100,000a, 3&up, 12f (turf).
Hollywood Park
Lazaro S. Barrera Memorial Stakes GIII, $100,000a, 3yo, 7f.
Louisiana Downs
Louisiana Cup Derby (R), $100,000a, 3yo, Louisiana-bred, 7f.
Louisiana Cup Distaff (Presented by Walmac Farms) (R), $100,000a, 3&up, Fillies & Mares, Louisiana-bred, 8.5f (turf).
Louisiana Cup Oaks (R), $100,000a, 3yo f, Louisiana-bred, 7f.
Louisiana Cup Turf Classic (R), $100,000a, 3&up, Louisiana-bred, 8.5f (turf).
Louisiana Cup Filly and Mare Sprint (R), $60,000a, 3&up, Fillies & Mares, Louisiana-bred, 6f.
Louisiana Cup Sprint (R), $60,000a, 3&up, Louisiana-bred, 6f.
Louisiana Cup Ladies Starter (R), $40,000a, 3&up, Fillies & Mares, Louisiana-bred, 8.5f (turf).
Louisiana Cup Starter (R), $40,000a, 3 and up, Louisiana-bred, 8.5f (turf).
Monmouth Park
Decathlon Stakes, $100,000g, 3&up, 6f.
Elkwood Stakes, $100,000g, 3&up, 8.5f (turf).
Pimlico
Shine Again Stakes (R), $50,000g, 3&up, Fillies & Mares, Maryland-bred, non-winners of a stakes, 8.5f.
Woodbine
Ballade Stakes (R), $125,000g, 3&up, Fillies & Mares, Ontario-sired, 6f.
May 23
Belmont Park
New York Stallion Stakes (Cupecoyīs Joy Div.) (R), $75,000g, 3yo f, progeny of stallions standing in New York, 7f (turf).
New York Stallion Stakes (Spectacular Bid Div.) (R), $75,000g, 3yo, progeny of stallions standing in New York, 7f (turf).
Emerald Downs
Auburn Handicap, $50,000g, 3yo, Colts & Geldings, 6.5f.
Hollywood Park
Franīs Valentine Stakes (R), $60,000a, 3&up, Fillies & Mares, California-bred, 8f (turf).
Monmouth Park
Spend a Buck Stakes, $100,000g, 3yo, 8.32f.
Woodbine
La Lorgnette Stakes, $150,000g, 3yo f, 8.5f.
May 24
Hastings Racecourse
Emerald Downs Stakes, $50,000g, 3yo f, 6.5f.
Woodbine
Lady Angela Stakes (R), $125,000g, 3yo f, Ontario-sired, 7f.
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Amid Cup Fervour, Revisiting Pain of Apartheid
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