Horse of the Year California Chrome and 2014 Dubai World Cup (UAE-I) winner African Story headline the list of probable runners for this year $10 million Dubai World Cup March 28 at Meydan.
Monthly Archives: March 2015
Ladbrokes names digital director Jim Mullen as new CEO
UK bookies Ladbrokes have promoted digital director Jim Mullen (pictured) to the CEO role soon to be vacated by Richard Glynn.
Mullen, who was lured over from rivals William Hill in 2013, will assume the CEO mantle effective April 1, the day after Glynn rides off into the sunset. Lads issued a statement praising Mullen for leading the operational transformation of Lads’ much maligned digital offering and for playing nice with Lads’ online technology providers Playtech.
Lads chairman Peter Erskine said the company had conducted “an extensive search” for Glynn’s successor during which “a number of strong external candidates” had been identified. But ultimately the board made the unanimous choice to promote from within, based on Mullen having “won the respect of his colleagues and the confidence of the Board” via the delivery of Lads’ new online product.
Mullen said he was “delighted” with his new CEO designation, plus the annual £500k pay packet and a seat on the board. No replacement has been announced for Mullen’s vacated role of head of digital.
Finnegans Wake Nominated for Hong Kong Race
The Audemars Piguet Queen Elizabeth II Cup (HK-I) at Sha Tin April 26 drew 61 nominees, including last year’s winner Designs On Rome, 2014 Dubai World Cup (UAE-I) winner African Story, and U.S.-based Finnegans Wake.
Ontario Developing Regulations for Cobalt
The Ontario Racing Commission said March 20 it will begin developing a “practical and appropriate response” for testing for the mineral cobalt.
Global Poker Masters to Determine World’s Best in Malta this Weekend
The inaugural Global Poker Masters (GPM) World Cup 2015, the brainchild of Alex Dreyfus and the Global Poker Index (GPI), will get underway this weekend with 40 of the finest poker players in the world out to represent their countries. CardsChat is a media partner in the event. Seasoned MTT pros hailing from the UK, […]
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Daniel Colman And Olivier Busquet Auctioning Poker Lesson For One Drop
Daniel Colman famously said that poker was a “dark game” to explain his lack of exuberant celebration and his sparse media presence after his win in the Big One for One Drop last year. Of course, that didn’t stop Colman from playing lots of poker last year, but it did suggest that perhaps he’d like […]
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Penn National Cancels Live Racing March 20
Live racing was canceled for the evening of March 20 at Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course as the Mid-Atlantic region was hit with six new inches of snow.
'Mondays Dark' photos: Mark Shunock, Joey Fatone and 15 dazzling 'Divas'
Lydia Ansel performs during “Divas” night at “Mondays Dark” hosted by Mark Shunock benefiting Dress for Success on Monday, March 16, 2015, in Vinyl at the Hard Rock Hotel. It was two men and 15 “Divas” at Monday night’s “Mondays Dark” fundraising show at Vinyl in the Hard Rock Hotel hosted by Mark Shunock, of “Rock of Ages” at the Venetian, to benefit Dress for Success.
East Haven Man Wins $250,000 Lottery Prize
What goes well with a steak and cheese grinder besides maybe some lettuce and tomato? If you happen to be Bill Coppola of East Haven, it’s not a side of fries, but a $250,000 prize winning lottery ticket. “Saturday after work, I went to the corner store to get something to eat.
Penn National Cancels for Friday, March 20
Live racing was canceled for Friday night, March 20, at Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course as the mid-Atlantic region was hit with six new inches of snow.
Op-Ed: U.S. Must Get Tougher on Cobalt
Setting the testing threshold for cobalt chloride has become the challenge of racing regulators. North American racing has been well behind in its application of a satisfactory testing threshold applied across all states.
Pedigree Analysis: Upstart
Although Upstart has a better pedigree for getting a distance than many of his contemporaries, there is reason to think he might be better suited to intermediate distances.
Woodford Thoroughbreds Buys He's Had Enough
John Sykes’ Woodford Thoroughbreds now owns 100% of He’s Had Enough, a grade I-placed son of Tapit. Woodford, one of Florida’s largest stallion operations, began standing He’s Had Enough this year in partnership.
Casino Stocks Jump As Brean Sees Bottom For Macau
Brean Capital analyst Bryan Maher after the market closed on Wednesday initiated coverage on Sands and three other top casino companies with buy ratings. Sands shares were up 2.9% in early afternoon trading in the stock market today , Thursday.
New York Lottery: Winning TAKE 5 ticket sold in Depew
The New York Lottery has announced a top prize winning ticket for the March 18 TAKE 5 drawing was sold at the Wegmans at 4960 Transit Road, Depew. The ticket is worth $32,373.
President Barack Obama’s NCAA Tournament Bracket
Here’s President Barack Obama’s NCAA Basketball Tournament bracket
ESPNPresident Barack Obama has filled out his annual NCAA Tournament bracket.
Kentucky is the heavy favorite to win the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament and President Barack Obama is going with the crowd, picking the Wildcats to finish the season 40-0 and win it all.
Obama made filled out his annual bracket for ESPN and Kentucky is not the only “chalky” pick the president is making.
Of his Final Four picks, three are No. 1 seeds and the fourth is a 2-seed.
Here is the full bracket via WhiteHouse.gov:
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/barack-obamas-final-four-picks-kentucky-arizona-2015-3#ixzz3UvfeGVSM
Sports betting pool grows – turns schoolteacher into potential felon
A sports-betting pool that began in a Wall Street office grew to $837,000 and turned a schoolteacher into a potential felon
While working as a currency broker on Wall Street in 1990, New Jersey resident John Bovery, now 58, started a fantasy-football pool in his office. Fifty-seven players joined for $50 each, making the total payout $2,850.
Over the next two decades, his pools mushroomed in size to $837,000 and included more than 8,000 people from around the globe, according to NJ.com.
The explosive growth, however, came to an abrupt halt in 2010, when police investigating a Jersey mobster with ties to sports betting found out about Bovery’s lucrative hobby. At the time, New Jersey had banned sports betting, even fantasy pools, which have become a ubiquitous element of office culture around the country.
Since then, Bovery had his banks accounts seized and spent time in jail, and he now stands in the throes of a years-long legal battle, all while $150,000 in debt.
“I’m a rules guy,” he told NJ.com. “You want to enforce the letter of the law? Fine. But I’m the only pool manager you’ll able to find in the state? The first one you ever found? …. Why am I the only one?”
Realistically, Bovery isn’t. Some put profit estimates for the fantasy realm as high as $70 billion — and that’s just football.
Read the full story at NJ.com »
N.J. spars with sports leagues once again over sports betting in federal appeals court
New Jersey’s long battle to bring legal sports betting to casinos and racetracks returned to federal appeals court last week, as attorneys for the nation’s leading sports leagues and lawyers for the state clashed over whether the latest betting plan violates a federal ban.
The arguments featured everything from a fight over what the word “authorize” means to a state attorney paraphrasing Dr. Suess’s “Horton Hears a Who” while making a point to a three-judge panel that includes the sister of Donald Trump and the wife of former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell.
This was the second time in less than two years that a U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals panel in Philadelphia heard the case, as New Jersey continues to push sports betting as a way to help revitalize Atlantic City and the state’s horse-racing industry, both of which are struggling. The NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, and NCAA are suing to stop the state’s effort, saying it violates a 1992 federal law banning sports wagering and threatens to hurt the integrity of their games.
Aqueduct Cancels Live Racing March 20
“This action is being undertaken in a prudent and a proactive step to prevent the loss of two days of racing, and to prepare the track for Saturday’s inaugural Claiming Championships,” read a release.
March Madness 2015: First slate of games already full of upsets
Cinderella didn’t take long to arrive to the dance, did she?
If there’s anything the first slate of games in the NCAA men’s basketball tournament taught us, it’s that March Madness is alive and well. Half of the teams played in the first day of the tournament and just as the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, we already saw five games decided by one point – a first in NCAA history – to go with a handful of major upsets that have burst millions of brackets.
Sorry, but if you had Baylor and Iowa State advancing past UAB and Georgia State, respectively, you can’t have a do-over. Just throw your bracket in the trash and be on your way.
Both Baylor and Iowa State – third seeds in the tournament – were expected to make deep runs in the tournament. Sadly, their tourney run ended even before it began when both teams succumbed to a pair of 14 seeds who were given 500/1 odds each to win the tournament. This won’t make UAB and Georgia State any more appealing from a betting standpoint, but their respective one-point squeakers over Baylor and Iowa State is living proof that nothing is certain in this tournament.