The South Carolina lottery will set aside $19.6 million to cover potential claims while it continues to investigate a Christmas Day glitch that affected Holiday Cash Add-A-Play tickets.South Carolina, Error, Systems Problem, Technology, Ticket Machine, Christmas
The Montana Millionaire winning numbers were drawn on Friday, and the grand-prize-winning ticket worth $1 million was sold in Butte.Montana, Winning Ticket Announcement, Raffle
Due to severe winter weather conditions, the remainder of the live racing program at Aqueduct Racetrack Dec. 30 was cancelled following the fourth race.
Margoth’s Gunnevera stepped up his training for the $16 million Pegasus World Cup Invitational Stakes (G1) at Gulfstream Park during a five-furlong breeze Dec. 30 at Gulfstream Park West.
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Consider this your weekly guide to the best stakes races in North America. This week we have a quality group of stakes races at Santa Anita Park, highlighted by the American Oaks (G1T).
There was an unexpected duel early and a familiar duel late in the $75,000 Eddie Logan Stakes Dec. 29 at Santa Anita Park as Publius Syrus edged Inscom.
The last two runners-up in the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint (G1T) will race down the Santa Anita Park hillside turf course Jan. 1.
New York Thoroughbred owners and trainers for the first time in more than a decade will see a decline in overall insurance premiums paid to provide workers compensation coverage for jockeys and exercise riders, industry officials said Dec. 29.
Mr. Amore Stable’s Firenze Fire will look to start his 3-year-old season in the same stellar fashion in which he commenced his juvenile campaign when he heads postward in the $150,000 Jerome Stakes Jan. 1 at Aqueduct Racetrack.
The rise of recreational poker finally came to fruition in 2017, with sites courting low-stakes players by offering a less serious game and more bang for their buck. As regulation […]
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Jockey Emisael Jaramillo escaped serious injury from a spill in the 10th race at Gulfstream Park Dec. 28, but is expected to likely miss the next week with body soreness, according to agent Bryce Soth.
The 7-year-old son of Gold Allure is now retired to stud at the Breeders Stallion Station in Hokkaido Hidaka-Cho with 16 wins from 33 starts, including 11 grade 1 events, a Japanese record.
Writer Terese Karmel, who wrote several pieces for BloodHorse, died Dec. 26.
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Writer Terese Karmel, who wrote several pieces for BloodHorse, died Dec. 26.
Beleaguered casino operator Crown Resorts has agreed to sell its 62% stake in online betting company CrownBet for A$150 million (US$117 million).
In a filing, the Australian Stock Exchange-listed company announced that it has entered into agreement with a buyer who Crown Resorts described only as “an entity associated with other shareholders in CrownBet, including CrownBet management team” led by CEO Matthew Tripp.
The deal, which includes the loans advanced by Crown to CrownBet, is still subject to the buyer “arranging satisfactory financing.” Crown said it expects the transaction to be completed by February 2018.
Crown confirmed in November that it had been in talks about the possibility of selling its CrownBet stake, following reports that both British bookmaker William Hill and Dublin-based Paddy Power Betfair—which operates Australian online bookmaker Sportsbet—had expressed interest in the stake.
With the end of the year just days away, CalvinAyre.com looks back at the stories that shook up the gambling world in 2017.
NEW JERSEY SPORTS BETTING
This summer, the US Supreme Court agreed to hear New Jersey’s appeal of federal courts’ rejections of its quest to bring legal sports betting to the Garden State. And with that, the 25-year-old Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA), which limits single-game sports betting to Nevada, began looking vulnerable.
The announcement marked the first real punch the state had landed after years of getting pummeled by district courts, who continually sided with the state’s opponents, the US Department of Justice, the four major pro sports leagues and the NCAA.
The Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation (MPTN) is realigning its long-term debt as it braces for the opening of MGM Springfield in late 2018.
Hartford Business reported that the MPTN, which owns the Mashantucket Pequot Gaming Enterprise, has secured the clearance to extend the repayment of its long-term debt to June 30, 2020 and its forbearance agreement with senior lenders to June 30, 2019.
“With the reality of competition expanding throughout the Northeast, Foxwoods continues to add a variety of non-gaming and family-friendly offerings in preparation for the imminent changes to come,” MPTN Chairman Rodney Butler said, according to the report. “By realigning our Term A obligations and extending our forbearance agreement, we can better ensure that our ongoing plans will be compatible with long-term profitability.”
This is welcome news for the tribe, which is currently preparing for a showdown with MGM Resort International. MGM is expected to open the doors of its $960 million hotel and resort casino in Springfield, Massachusetts, in the fall of 2018.
With bowl season finally winding down, the best teams in the country will finally get an opportunity to prove themselves in some of the biggest games starting on Friday. That is when the eighth-ranked USC Trojans will meet the fifth-ranked Ohio State Buckeyes as 7.5-point underdogs in the Cotton Bowl at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.
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The Buckeyes will be out to prove they belonged in the four-team College Football Playoff field while the Trojans look to be a dangerous opponent despite failing to cover the spread in six straight games against Big Ten opponents. Ohio State is 11-2 against the spread in its last 13 versus Pac-12 foes but 0-2 straight up in the past two meetings.
On Saturday, two more Top 10 schools from the Big Ten will take center stage in the Fiesta Bowl and Orange Bowl. The ninth-ranked Penn State Nittany Lions are 3-point chalk against the 11th-ranked Washington Huskies in the Fiesta Bowl and have gone an impressive 16-4-1 ATS in their last 21 games. However, the Huskies have won four straight versus the Big Ten.