John Oxley’s La Coronel will seek her fourth stakes victory when she takes on a field of eight competitors in the $400,000 Sands Point Stakes (G2T) contested at 1 1/8 miles over Belmont Park’s inner turf course.
Monthly Archives: September 2017
Vanessa Selbst Talks Her Pivotal 2017 WSOP ME Bustout Hand and ‘Justice is Blinds’ Charity Event: CardsChat Exclusive
For the third year in a row, Vanessa Selbst is combining her passion for both poker and legal advocacy by hosting her ‘Justice is Blinds’ charity event. Selbst sat down […]
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Young Americans prefer viewing eSports as NFL ratings tank
A new study says young American adults are spending far more time watching eSports online than traditional sports, while the new National Football League season’s TV ratings are tanking (again).
Limelight Networks has released a white paper on the State of Online Video 2017, which showed US adults watch online sports coverage for an average of 1.37 hours per week compared to 1.15 hours for online video gaming and events (aka eSports). The global averages were 1.35 hours per week of traditional sports and 1.03 hours of eSports.
However, male viewers aged 18-25 years consumed 1.95 hours per week of eSports content compared to 1.67 hours of traditional sports. Females of the same age watched 0.82 hours of eSports compared to 0.74 hours for traditional sports.
For those younger male viewers, eSports ranked second only to movies (2.02 hours) as the most popular online video content. For young females, eSports ranked second from the bottom, behind TV shows, movies, user generated content and news, with traditional sports coming dead last.
Radcliffe Strikes for Scat Daddy Filly
It took $1 million, but Hip 1041, a daughter of Scat Daddy out of the Ghostzapper mare Beloveda will go to Phoenix Thoroughbreds after Radcliffe signed the ticket.
Don Alberto Goes to $1 Million for Tapit Filly
Don Alberto acquired a handsome gray daughter of Tapit out of grade 1 winner Believe You Can, by Proud Citizen.
New Zealand TAB site forced to block Australian bettors
The New Zealand TAB has become collateral damage in Australia’s war against unauthorized online gambling operators.
On Wednesday, Australia’s Interactive Gambling Amendment Act officially took effect, and thus any online gambling operator – and especially any online casino or poker site – taking wagers from Australian punters without a license is officially acting agin’ the law.
But while the Act’s enforcement bullseye was primarily aimed at Asian online betting operators drinking Australian-licensed operators’ milkshakes, the New Zealand Racing Board has discovered to its horror that its TAB online betting site had to close the accounts of its Australian customers.
The new rules also prevent Kiwis who happen to be traveling in Australia from accessing the NZ TAB’s website, although some customers have reportedly worked out a hack that permits access if punters use their mobile data on a roaming plan.
Stone Farm Consignment Shows Top Human, Equine Families
With the benefit of past breeding successes that produced the likes of graded stakes winners Mastery and Ascend, Stone Farm’s Book 2 consignment at Keeneland, which featured half-siblings to those two, sold very well
Albaugh Lands Curlin Colt Second Time Around
It doesn’t happen very often when there is a dispute over a pricey yearling, but there was a kerfuffle over a handsome well-bred son of Curlin during the Sept. 14 session of the Keeneland September yearling sale.
Curlin Colt Moves to Top of Keeneland Session
Nearing the halfway point of the Sept. 14 session of the Keeneland September yearling sale, a Curlin colt garnered the top price of the day to that point when purchased by Ken McPeek for Fern Creek Stable for $850,000.
Ten City, Hollywood Star Face Off in Iroquois
Grade 3 winner Ten City is the 122-pound highweight racing for Tommie Lewis and Magdalena Racing. He faces undefeated stakes winners Flameaway and The Tabulator.
Hard Spun Son Le Romain Aims for Fourth Group 1 Win
When Mark Carusi bought broodmare Mignard at a Darley dispersal sale for just $20,000 a few years back he had dreams of a horse like Le Romain, “well maybe not that good but I wanted to breed a good one.”
Pegasus World Cup Highlights Gulfstream Meet
The second running of the $16 million Pegasus World Cup Invitational (G1) and the 67th running of the $1 million Florida Derby (G1) highlight a 2017-2018 Championship Meet at Gulfstream Park.
Poker Masters Underway: Matt Hyman leads, Daniel Negreanu Min-Cashes
The inaugural Poker Masters high-roller poker series got underway at the Aria in Las Vegas on Wednesday, with the first of four $50,000 buy-in events playing down to a final […]
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Democracy Institute to debate US hypocrisy in Antigua WTO war, prosecution of Calvin Ayre
Online gambling industry members and free trade advocates are urged not to miss a special Democracy Institute event in Geneva later this month.
On September 27, Democracy Institute director Patrick Basham will lead an expert international panel in an interactive event to debate the Institute’s recent report, Do As I Say, Not As I Do: How the WTO, Antigua & A Canadian Overcame American Hypocrisy on Free Trade.
The event, which will run in parallel with the World Trade Organization’s Public Forum 2017 in Geneva, will run from 6:30pm to 8:30pm at the Mon Repos Hotel at 131 rue de Lausanne. A CalvinAyre.com camera crew will be on site to document the event, but individuals wishing to reserve a seat or to obtain media accreditation should contact the Institute at [email protected] or +1.202.770.5853.
The Do As I Say, Not As I Do report exhaustively details the 14-years-and-counting battle that the nation of Antigua has waged against the United States over the latter nation’s WTO-condemned anti-competitive stance toward Antigua-licensed online gambling sites’ right to access the US market.
Second Time Around, Albaugh Family Lands Curlin Colt
After two trips through the ring early on during Thursday’s session of the Keeneland September yearling sale, Albaugh Family Stables went to $800,000 to land a chestnut Curlin colt.
Distorted Humor Filly Sells for $750,000 at Keeneland
Jacob West went to $750,000 to land a Distorted Humor filly named No Joke for Robert and Lawana Low early on in the Sept. 14 session of the Keeneland September yearling sale.
St. Leger Should Sort Out 3-year-old Stayers
The William Hill St. Leger (G1) is the final classic on the British racing calendar and the Sept. 16 renewal at Doncaster finds 11 3-year-olds trying to confirm their place among the top stayers.
Ulysses Big Mover in World's Best Racehorse Rankings
After his performance in the Juddmonte International Stakes (G1), Ulysses (IRE) (127) joins Gun Runner as the co-third highest rated horse in the seventh edition of the Longines World’s Best Racehorse Rankings for 2017.
GVC credit PartyPoker turnaround for driving H1 gains
UK-listed online gambling operator GVC Holdings saw its share price hit a record high as investors celebrated the company’s stellar H1 performance.
On Thursday, GVC released its report card covering the first six months of 2017, during which gaming revenue topped €486m, a 10% rise over pro forma results – which includes a full contribution from its acquired Bwin.party brands – in H1 2016. Clean earnings rose 28% to €134m and pre-tax profits hit €102m.
The good times have continued to roll in Q3, with daily group net gaming revenue up 12% and GVC’s board says it expects full-year 2017 earnings to be “comfortably ahead” of analysts’ consensus of €256m. Giddy investors pushed the stock up nearly 7% to a record 855p on Thursday.
GVC CEO Kenny Alexander (pictured) said the company’s performance “has continued to exceed our expectations” following the Bwin.party acquisition. Moreover, Alexander said the ease with which GVC integrated the Bwin.party brands leaves the company “well positioned to play a pivotal role in the industry’s consolidation, should the right opportunities arise.”
Look Back: Hansel Holds off Strike the Gold in Belmont
The story, headlined “His Heart Got Him Home,” was written by Edward L. Bowen and appeared in the June 15, 1991 issue of The Blood-Horse.