Star Kentucky-bred filly Lady Aurelia is to return to the United States for some time off at co-owner Stonestreet Farm near Lexington after a scope following her first defeat in the Sept. 24 Cheveley Park Stakes (Eng-I) shows she bled.
Monthly Archives: September 2016
Nightflower Takes Second Europa
Jurgen Imm’s homebred Nightflower captured the Preis von Europa (Ger-I) for the second successive year Sept. 25 at Cologne.
Ryan Firpo’s LUCKBOXES: A New Poker Comedy Pilot from Director of BET RAISE FOLD
LUCKBOXES: An Original Series About Hitting It Big is a new pilot poker comedy, just completed by Ryan Firpo, writer-director of the documentary BET RAISE FOLD: The Story of Online […]
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Runhappy Logs Final Drill for Return
James McIngvale’s champion sprint male Runhappy worked five furlongs in :58 1/5 Sept. 25 at Keeneland in preparation for his 2016 debut in Churchill Downs’ Oct. 1 Ack Ack Handicap (gr. III).
Miyadi Suspended by CHRB After Altercation
The California Horse Racing Board suspended trainer Steve Miyadi’s license Sept. 25, following an incident Sept. 23, in which he shoved CHRB commissioner and active jockey Alex Solis.
Runhappy in Final Drill for Return
James McIngvale’s champion sprint male Runhappy worked five furlongs in :58 1/5 Sept. 25 at Keeneland in preparation for his 2016 debut in Churchill Downs’ Oct. 1 Ack Ack Handicap (gr. III).
Gaming Industry News Weekly Recap – Stories You Might Have Missed
THE AMERICAS
Canada’s single-game sports betting bill went down to defeat while British Columbia’s gambling monopoly warned international online operators off its turf; Caesars Entertainment made a last ditch effort to satisfy its creditors; FanDuel raised the rake on most of its guaranteed player pools to 15%; the NBA said gaming operators were part of its data deal with Sportradar; north Jersey casino backers suspended their marketing campaign; Nevada’s entity betting market got off to a very slow start; IGT protested the way Scientific Games won Maryland’s $263m lottery contract; Antigua’s PM asked fellow members of the Non-Aligned Movement for help in its WTO fight with the US; China’s Fosun Group was rumored to have bought the Baha Mar project; Gamblit Gaming announced a gamblified version of virtual reality game Brookhaven Experiment; Monarch Media’s Cliff Fontenot offered an overview of VR’s connections to gambling and Plumbee’s Raf Keustermans explained why social casinos would be VR laggards; Eldorado Resorts paid $1.7b to acquire Isle of Capri Casinos but Rafi Farber found slim pickings among US regional casino operators stocks.
EUROPE
Bet365’s annual results showed earnings rising 10% to £448m; GVC Holdings turned Bwin.party’s underperforming brands into winners; Ladbrokes and Gala Coral Group said their merger will result in 700 redundancies; French online gambling operators lost €5m in 2015; the EU’s shifting definition of illegal sports betting spelled trouble for Malta’s gaming industry; Bloomberry Resorts gave up its quest for a Cyprus casino but NagaCorp is still in the hunt; German millennials preferred slots over casino table games; PokerStars’ Jason Prasad discussed the challenges of diversifying beyond its poker-only roots; Madabout Media’s Andy Edwards warned affiliates not to rush into launching their own bingo site while OST’s Luke Brynley-Jones urged bingo operators to embrace social media; Draglet’s Benjamin Bommhardt explained what Bitcoin industry innovations can teach the gaming industry; Becky Liggero recapped the Big Sports Dinner 2016 and Ed Pownall turned his Industry Eye on FOBTs and The Football Pools.
Accelerate Finds Just Enough in Los Al Derby
Hronis Racing’s Accelerate took the long way around the racetrack and had to wait out a lengthy inquiry, but was able to survive both to win his graded stakes debut Sept. 24 in the $200,000 Los Alamitos Derby (gr. II).
Senor Guitar First Winner for Star Guitar
Louisiana-bred standout Star Guitar, a winner of 22 stakes in the Pelican State, saw his first winner as a stallion Sept. 24 when Clifford Grum’s homebred Senor Guitar rallied from fifth to score a clear win in a Churchill Downs maiden-claiming race.
Caren, Are You Kidding Me Score at Woodbine
Dual Canadian classic winner Caren led at every point of call and posted her first graded win by the slimmest margin in the $150,000 Ontario Colleen (Can-IIIT) for 3-year-old fillies Sept. 24 at Woodbine.
Caren, Are You Kidding Me Score at Woodbine
Dual Canadian classic winner Caren led at every point of call and posted her first graded win by the slimmest margin in the $150,000 Ontario Colleen (Can-IIIT) for 3-year-old fillies Sept. 24 at Woodbine.
Mrs McDougal Shows the Way in Noble Damsel
A change in tactics proved to be the winning decision for Mr. and Mrs. William Warren’s Mrs McDougal Sept. 24 in the $200,000 Noble Damsel (gr. IIIT) at Belmont Park.
Mrs McDougal Shows the Way in Noble Damsel
A change in tactics proved to be the winning decision for Mr. and Mrs. William Warren’s Mrs McDougal Sept. 24 in the $200,000 Noble Damsel (gr. IIIT) at Belmont Park.
Valdivia, Rivelli Take Arlington Titles Again
Jockey Jose Valdivia Jr., trainer Larry Rivelli, and Vince Foglia’s Patricia’s Hope all repeated their 2015 meet titles at the conclusion of Arlington International Racecourse’s 74-day meet Sept. 24.
Connect Bounces Back in Pennsylvania Derby
After a poor performance in his first graded stakes try in the Travers Stakes (gr. I), late-developing 3-year-old Connect bounced back with a narrow win over Gun Runner in the $1.25 million Pennsylvania Derby (gr. II) Sept. 24 at Parx Racing.
Keeneland Sale Continues on Par With 2015
Buyers with unfilled orders continued to shop the Keeneland September yearling sale during the Sept. 24 penultimate session as numbers for the marathon auction are nearly identical to 2015.
Deeply Undervalued Wins Commonwealth Derby
Klaravich Stables and William Lawrence’s Deeply Undervalued made the best of her stakes debut Sept. 24 with a closing score in the $200,000 Commonwealth Derby (gr. IIT) at Laurel Park.
Blacktype Wins Record Commonwealth Turf Cup
Jump Sucker Stables’ Blacktype set a course record Sept. 24 in the $200,000 Commonwealth Turf Cup (gr. IIT) at Laurel Park, running a mile in 1:33.43 on the Maryland oval’s All Along turf course.
Noholdingback Bear in Gallant Bob Stakes
After twice settling for minor placings in graded stakes, Noholdingback Bear would not be denied in the $300,000 Gallant Bob Stakes (gr. III) as he rallied four wide in the stretch to secure his first graded stakes victory.
Songbird Untouchable in Cotillion
The champion filly toyed with fellow grade I winners Carina Mia and Cathryn Sophia Sept. 24 at Parx Racing, then built her win streak to 11 with a clear victory under a hand ride from Hall of Fame jockey Mike Smith.