Horse Betting

BALTIMORE, 05-20-12 – I’ll Have Another’s connections loaded their Preakness Stakes winner onto a van Sunday morning at Pimlico race Course to begin their journey to Belmont Park in their continuing quest to sweep racing’s Triple Crown.

In front of a record crowd of 121,309, Reddam Racing’s chestnut colt edged Bodemeister by a neck in the 137th Preakness Saturday afternoon to become the first horse since big Brown in 2008 to win the first two legs of the series. He will try to become the 12th horse to capture American racing’s most treasured prize – and the first since Affirmed in 1978 – in the Belmont Stakes on June 9.

Trainer Doug O’Neill said the colt and his team are ready for the challenge.

“My dreams always ended with winning the Kentucky Derby,” he said. “They never were followed up with winning the Preakness and going to the Belmont. That’s a new dream now I’m waiting to pull off.”

O’Neill said that I’ll Have another came out of the race well and was happy with his appearance when he arrived at the barn at 6 a.m. Sunday morning.

“He looked great,” O’Neill said. “He had licked his feed tub. once we cleaned the poultice off, his legs were ice cold. He had good energy.”

I’ll Have another was loaded onto a van at 9:05 a.m. for the journey to Belmont Park.

The thrilling Preakness victory pushed I’ll Have Another’s record to 4-0 this season. He returned from a nearly five-month layoff due to sore shins with a win in the Robert Lewis (G2) on Feb. 4. On April 7, he added the Santa Anita Derby (G1) to his resume before winning the Kentucky Derby on may 5. O’Neill said the colt is well-suited to handle the demanding 1 ½-mile Belmont Stakes, the longest of the three races and called “The Test of the Champion.”

“He’s got the mind,” O’Neill said. “You’ve seen the way he’s handled the attention in Kentucky and here in Baltimore. He’s got a great confidence about him and he’s got the stride of a horse that a mile and a half won’t be a problem. He’s got the pedigree; so much stamina on the female side.

“And he’s lightly raced. After winning the Bob Lewis it enabled us to give him plenty of time before his next start. He’s still a fresh, happy, thriving horse that just seems to be getting better and better.”

Meanwhile, O’Neill is prepared for the attention and demands on his time that will come his way between the Preakness and the Belmont Stakes.

“Bring it on,” he said. “We’re ready.”

O’Neill spent a few hours at the post-race party in the barn area hosted by the Maryland Jockey Club, but ended his celebrating around 10 p.m.

“Lynette and I and the kids ended up going back to the hotel and getting room service,” he said. “And the kids were doing a lot of gymnastics moves off the bed. it was kind of a mellow evening once we got back into the hotel.

“Here it was just a fun house party. We kept saying ‘I hope mom and dad don’t show up. We’re all going to be in trouble.’ It’s something I had never experienced before in my life, the amount of enthusiasm and positivity and love for horse racing. it was a dream come true for anyone involved in the business.”

Assistant trainer Jack Sisterson and several members of O’Neill’s staff went with the colt to Belmont Park. O’Neill and his family were scheduled to fly home to California on owner J. Paul Reddam’s private jet. After checking on his horses at Hollywood Park and Santa Anita, O’Neill said he would probably travel to New York in about a week.

In all likelihood, O’Neill said, he won’t make any changes in I’ll Have Another’s training program during the three weeks leading up to the Belmont Stakes.

“We’ll have to play that by ear,” he said. “It depends on the weather and all that stuff, but we’ll maintain the same type of exercise that he’s had. There’s the old line about you can’t take a sprinter and train him two miles and make a router out of him and you can’t take a router and work them three-eighths every week and make a sprinter out of him.

“If we’ve got a true route horse, which we do, he’s going to maintain his fitness and his exercise. if they can go a mile and a half they will. And he will.”

While the Derby and Preakness had similar storylines with I’ll Have another catching and passing Bodemeister near the wire, O’Neill said his personal emotions watching the stretch runs were not the same.

“Winning the Derby was an out-of-body experience. it was like, ‘Oh, my God, I can’t believe it.’” he said. “The Preakness, the expectations were obviously a lot higher. it was almost like, ‘C’mon boy, C’mon.’”

O’Neill acknowledged that there were moments in the duel through the stretch that it looked like I’ll Have another might not overtake Bodemeister.

“He was running such a brilliant race and even if he had run second he would have run brilliantly,” O’Neill said. “You don’t want to run second when you run that good, and I’m glad he didn’t.”

BODEMEISTER – After another agonizingly tough loss to I’ll Have another in the Preakness, Zayat Stables and Michel and Tiffany Moreno’s colt was flown back to California Sunday morning. He will remain in training, but will skip the Belmont Stakes.

“I’ve had enough,” Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert quipped.

Baffert said that Bodemeister appeared to be in good condition before leaving the Pimlico Stakes Barn for Baltimore-Washington International Airport.

“He was actually pretty happy today,” Baffert said. “He ate up, got on a plane and headed back to California. He came out of it really well.”

Bodemeister set the pace in the Derby and the Preakness and each time I’ll Have another managed to catch and pass him near the finish line. the Arkansas Derby winner turned in gallant performances in defeat.

“He’s a pretty amazing animal,” Baffert said. “He didn’t act tired. After the race, he came back to the barn and he wasn’t as tired as he was after the Derby.”

Baffert said I’ll Have another and Bodemeister showed in the Derby and the Preakness that they are at the top of a talented crop of 3-year-olds.

“They are two really good horses,” he said. “On any given year they could probably win those races. it was a tough year.”

Baffert said that the Zayat Stables’ colt Paynter might start in the Belmont Stakes.  Paynter, who won an allowance race in convincing style Saturday at Pimlico, was shipped to Belmont Park Sunday morning.

“We’re going to train him there,” Baffert said. “If it looks like he snapped out of his race, we’ll run him in the Belmont if he looks really good.”

CREATIVE CAUSE – the third-place finisher in Preakness 137 boarded a van Sunday morning to head for Baltimore-Washington International Airport for a scheduled 9 a.m. flight back to Los Angeles and his home base of Hollywood Park.

“He came out of the race OK,” said trainer Mike Harrington minutes before putting the son of Giant’s Causeway on the van.  “Back to California, regroup.”

Harrington surprised some observers when he sent Creative Cause home after his fifth-place finish in the Kentucky Derby, before bringing him back to Pimlico the following week for the Preakness. He said he is now contemplating one more cross-country venture to compete in the Belmont Stakes.

“I’d say right now it’s 50-50,” said Harrington, who was scheduled to get on a flight Sunday evening with assistant/exercise rider John Cisneros for the trip home.

“He ran his heart out,” Cisneros said. “He didn’t have any trouble at all. He ran hard, and I thought he was going to win it. Today he was very alert and happy. actually he was jumping up and down when he was walking.”

The Belmont would be Creative Cause’s sixth race midway through his sophomore season. the San Felipe (G 2) winner has only been out of the money once in 10 career starts, that coming in his fifth-place finish in the Derby.

ZETTERHOLM – Trainer Richard Dutrow Jr. said Sunday that the Winter Park Partners’ Zetterholm appeared to come out of his fourth-place finish in the Preakness in good order.

The New York-bred son of Silver Train was shipped back to Dutrow’s barn at Aqueduct Sunday morning.

“I got what I wanted from the race,” Dutrow said. “I was hoping and praying for a third or fourth-place finish.  We got the fourth-place finish and we left there satisfied, but I did not see my horse run big. I know he put in his little effort there, but I thought he could have run better. He didn’t change leads, which is very unlike him, and he didn’t get along so well with the track.”

TEETH OF THE DOG – Trainer Michael Matz reported that J. W. Singer’s Teeth of the Dog exited his fifth-place finish in Saturday’s Preakness in good condition.

“I was happy with the way he ran. He’s kind of inexperienced and he’s probably not as good as those horses right now,” said Matz from Fair Hill Training Center Sunday morning.

Teeth of the Dog will be not run in the Belmont Stakes, but Matz has the horse that may well be Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner I’ll Have Another’s most dangerous foe in his quest for a Triple Crown sweep. Union Rags, who finished a troubled seventh in the Kentucky Derby, was held out of the Preakness to train for the Belmont Stakes.

Union Rags captured the Champagne Stakes (G1) at Belmont Park last fall. Matz is confident that Union Rags will be well suited to the 1 ½ -mile oval, the sweeping turns and the relatively deep racing surface.

“I don’t think it’s going to be a problem,” Matz said. “He’s won there before, so I don’t think that part of it will be a problem.”

OPTIMIZER – Trainer D. Wayne Lukas, who won back-to-back stakes races on the Preakness undercard but finished sixth in the main event, exited Pimlico shortly after dawn with his entourage early Sunday for the long van ride back to Louisville.

“He’s fine; he came out of the race in good shape,” Lukas said by phone while on the highway home. “We’re going to get home and mr. Kelley (owner Brad) and I talked last night and we’re going to talk a little bit further when we get back.”

Lukas said before the Preakness he believed the son of English Channel was probably better suited to the 1 ½-mile Belmont Stakes than either the Kentucky Derby or Preakness. He finished 11th in the Derby in some traffic, then got going late to split the field in the Preakness at odds of 23-1.

“I would say we’re probable for the Belmont just because of the distance and the different configuration of the race track,” said Lukas, who has won the Belmont Stakes four times in his storied career. Lukas last took the Belmont in 2000 with long shot Commendable, following three consecutive victories from 1994-96 with Tabasco Cat, Thunder Gulch and Editor’s Note.

“I’d say it’s 50-50 right now,” he said. “The winner (I’ll Have Another) is a nice horse, but we’re not going to hand it (the Triple Crown) to him. He’s got to earn it.”

COZZETTI – the seventh-place finisher in Preakness 137 returned to his home base at Churchill Downs Sunday, where trainer Dale Romans will decide whether to continue on to Belmont or embark on a grass campaign to take advantage of his attractive turf pedigree.

“I’m not sure,” Romans said when asked if he would go onto the Belmont Stakes with Albaugh Family Stable’s son of grass champion Cozzene. “We’ll regroup. We’ve got to figure out why he’s not running better. He’s a better horse than he’s shown. once we get back to Kentucky, we’ll figure him out.”

Even if Romans bypasses the Belmont with Cozzetti, he has another candidate that he’s more than a little excited about in Dullahan.

“He worked Saturday morning (five furlongs in 1:00.20, second-best of 26) at Churchill,” Romans said of the Blue Grass winner and Kentucky Derby show finisher. “He’s on track for a big Belmont.”

Romans, who won the 2011 Preakness with Shackleford, decided not to run in the Preakness and give Dullahan extra rest for the Belmont Stakes.

“It should help him,” he said. “He’ll be a fresher horse.”

WENT THE DAY WELL – Team Valor International and Mark Ford’s Went the Day Well was reported to have come out of  a 10th-place finish in the Preakness in good order.

“He seems OK. He has a couple of scrapes, but all in all, he’s good,” said trainer Graham Motion from Fair Hill Training Center Sunday morning.

Motion could offer no concrete reason for the disappointing effort that followed a strong fourth-place finish in the Kentucky Derby.

“Maybe the Derby took more out of him that I realized. I just don’t know,” Motion said.

Went the Day Well is unlikely to go on to the Belmont Stakes.

“I think we’ll point to some of the summer races like the Travers,” Motion said.

TIGER WALK – Trainer Ignacio Correas and his eighth-place Preakness runner were back at Kevin Plank’s Sagamore Farm Sunday morning, having departed Pimlico Saturday night for the 20-minute van ride home.

“He came out of the race good,” Correas said. “He just walked today. He was probably a little tired.”

The Preakness was Tiger Walk’s fourth race as a 3-year-old, all stakes, but his only in-the-money finish came in the Withers (G3) at Aqueduct in February in his seasonal debut.

Correas said he thought the son of Tale of the Cat would probably not be heading to New York for the Belmont Stakes in three weeks.

“I don’t think so,” he said. “I haven’t talked to Kevin about it yet. We’re going to talk during the week, but I don’t think so.”

PRETENSION – Trainer Chris Grove reported from Bowie Training Center that Kidwells Petite Stable’s Pretension came out of his 11th-place finish in Saturday’s Preakness Stakes in good order.

“He’s in great shape. no problems, “I think we’ll probably head for the Mike Lee in late June,” said Grove, referring to the Belmont Park stakes that’s restricted to New York-bred horses.

I’ll Have Another on to Belmont Stakes

Long before there was I’ll Have Another’s win in the Kentucky Derby for trainer Doug O’Neill, and long before there was a gig as CEO of Santa Anita Park for mark Verge, there was a trip March 22, 1981 to the Arcadia track for the last race of the day.

The crew: O’Neill, then 12 years old, Verge, then 13, and their grade-school basketball coach, Mike Amodei. The means to get from Santa Monica, where O’Neill and Verge lived, was Amodei’s old, beat up, green Toyota Corolla.

“I had told them that I loved going to the track,” Amodei said.

“Especially in high school at Temple City, we’d cut out after lunch and go place bets (at Santa Anita). I was telling those guys about it and that I would one day take them to the track. so one day, that’s what finally happened.”

So there they were, O’Neill, Verge and their basketball coach dashing across town to make the bet and subsequent score that would help set in motion two racetrack careers that will go down in history.

When Crimson Commander crossed the wire first with Joe Blot a head back in second, O’Neill and Verge won $60 apiece for their $5 investment. The race?

Nothing more than a $32,000 claimer run at 6<MD+,%30,%55,%70>1/<MD-,%0,%55,%70>2 furlongs with a purse of $20,000.

“I gave Coach Mike five bucks and Doug gave him five bucks, and we had Joe Blot/Crimson Commander and Crimson Commander/Joe Blot, and it hit,” Verge said. “We got $60 each and we were just rolling. I remember Doug and I had three 20s each. we were set. It was the most fun I had in my entire life.”

Added O’Neill about the double-digit score: “It was a Derby-like moment. It was like `Oh my God, we just got rich!”‘

The win spawned a love fest with the track that O’Neill and Verge still have to this day.

Following their windfall, the urge to get back to the track was so strong that relying on Amodei’s Corolla or O’Neill’s father, Patrick, for rides soon wasn’t enough. The duo took to the city’s bus system.

It took three buses and an hour and a half to get from Santa Monica to Santa Anita, O’Neill estimated. Hollywood Park was a tad easier, two buses and about an hour. But just getting to the track guaranteed nothing. The under-aged boys needed fake dads to get them under the turnstiles at the admission gates and even more help to actually get their bets down.

Verge, whose smooth-talking skills are still very much on display today, handled this without fail.

“Mark would always ask somebody in the parking lot `Could you be our parent so we can get in?”‘ O’Neill said. “And then once you get in there, you just go up to a stranger, befriend them and say `Hey uh, my parents … are … I’m not sure where they are … uh, but can you get me $5 on the two?’

“And then you’d get that speech like, `You kids shouldn’t be betting … but why do you like the two? Did you hear anything about the two?”‘

Rides back to Santa Monica on the bus were often entertaining, especially after Verge gave many of the regulars nicknames and struck up friendships.

O’Neill recalls one such regular named Frank, who stood up about 45 minutes into the ride home from the track and let out an expletive.

When asked why he was so upset, Frank answered by saying he had forgotten he drove to the track that day and that his car was still in the parking lot while he was on the bus headed home.

There was no doubt which way O’Neill’s life was headed after the pair graduated from St. Monica’s High. he was offered a job walking hots for former trainer Jude Feld at Del Mar just months after graduation and eventually rode the backstretch ladder up to where he is today – a Kentucky Derby-winning trainer.

For Verge, entrepreneurism was his calling. after graduating from UCLA, Verge started a series of successful business, including WestsideRentals.com.

Verge also owns horses that O’Neill trains and has parlayed his involvement in the industry into becoming Santa Anita’s new CEO in March.

But in true O’Neill/Verge fashion, neither friend can forget those who played an important role in their journey. That’s why Amodei, now the executive editor for Ave Maria Press at the University of Notre Dame, and his two children were front and center last weekend for the Kentucky Derby.

Upon arriving at Churchill Downs, Verge greeted Amodei and his kids at the gate and got them in. From there, O’Neill joined up with them and they hung out in an air-conditioned area near a snack bar until O’Neill needed to disengage so that he could saddle I’ll Have another.

“Doug was with us basically from about 11 a.m. until about 3:30 p.m. and we all just hung there,” Amodei said. “It was a great day at that point, no matter what the outcome. Then, everyone went their different ways. mark got us a box. Doug went somewhere else. And then the race unfolds.

“As that horse came down the stretch, I kept feeling that this was really a flashback because Doug and mark have always had something in them where they were just winners. They never changed. Either one of them. They were winners. It was one of the top-10 moments in my life.”

HORSE RACING: O’Neill and Verges’ Santa Anita trip in 1981 start of two great racing careers

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As the conversation progressed I soon realized he made his living as a professional punter. he revealed to me the system he used was the ‘how to place bet on favorites’ by Mr. Ali. At the time I knew absolutely nothing about horse racing and the book I was reading at the bookstore was the first one I ever picked up about it. I learned the basic terms; win, place, show, trifecta, the whole lingo associated with punting.

James Landau, the gentleman seated next to me, proceeded to tell me that Mohamed Ali’s horse racing system is wonderful because it’s simple and very much common sense racing system. he explained that the system was all about following eight strict rules. If you can discipline yourself to only bet on a horse race that follows these eight specific rules then you can make a living at horse betting.

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Obviously given the position that I was in (that I hated what I did for a living) and was just starting to entertain the idea of doing punting to make some extra money plus the conversation I had with Mr. James Landau my curiosity was piqued enough to where I put the betting web address for the [how the place bet on favorites] system in my pocket and when I got home that day took a look at the website.

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BILLINGS – Simulcast horse racing returned to Montana on Thursday, which means fans can bet ont he Preakness.

The Montana Board of Horse Racing suspended the simulcast off-track betting in December because of a budget deficit of about $600,000.

Montana Simulcast Racing, LLC started simulcasting Thursday morning. Montana Simulcast Partners had been handling the broadcasts.

Nick Alonzo, owner of Katie O’Keefe’s in Missoula, formed the new company. the board licensed him as a simulcast provider two weeks ago, according to Val Crossland, simulcast coordinator for Montana Simulcast Racing.

Crossland says the company will provide racing from two tracks in the morning, two in the afternoon and two in the evening,along with racing from a dog track.

Won 800 Casino & Sports Pub is the site in Billings that handles off-track betting and simulcasting. Owner Jill Lindell says the simulcasts ame back the same day the company opened at its new location at 603 24th Street West.

Lindell also says the simulcasts came back in time for betting on the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico in Baltimore on Saturday.

Revenue from simulcast racing helps fund the up-front money for live horse racing in Montana.

Yellowstone Downs race director Ben Carlson says the return of simulcasts came too late to have the planned eight race dates in Billings.

“It looks fairly positive that we may not be running in 2012,” Carlson said.

He said nothing is official, and a decision will be finalized by June 1.

This would be the first time since Yellowstone Downs started in 1997 that it would cancel racing.

Both Carlson and Crossland say the only horse racing in Montana this year will be in Miles City at the Bucking Horse Sale, with one date last weekend and two this weekend

Simulcast betting returns to Montana; maybe too late for Yellowstone Downs

11 specialists in the horse raising sector have announced their top picks to win the 137th Preakness Stakes and only four horses made the grade. For Preakness betting, it pays to know how the top rides have performed the past few years and see if the odds-on favorites offer any value

Only three times in the past 12 years has the Kentucky Derby winner failed to finish in the money at the Preakness

Creative cause (1), Bodemeister (3), went the Day well (3) and I’ll Have Another (4) are the popular picks to win the second leg of this year’s US Triple Crown and online sportsbooks have started to reduce the payback as money flows in from the sports betting public.

From 2000 through to 2011, seven favorites won the Preakness and it makes the Exactor a big play but compared with Kentucky Derby betting, it also creates a wide margin in pari-mutuel payouts. Here are some notes on the recent favorites that did not finish first at Pimlico Race course.

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In 2000, Fusaichi Pegasus became the first favorite since Spectacular Bid (1979) to win the Kentucky Derby, was second at the Preakness to Red Bullet and missed the Belmont.

In 2006, Barbaro ran the Preakness as a heavy favorite but after a false start, injured his leg and could not finish the race. After several surgeries, those injuries would eventually lead to his death.

In 2007, Calvin Borel rode Street Sense to a Kentucky Derby win and finished second by a nose in the Preakness to Curlin. Street Sense also won the Juvenile Breeder’s Cup in 2006 by a record 10 lengths, making him the first ever to follow up the JBC title with a KY Derby win.

In 2010, Derby winner Super Saver grabbed the ‘favorite’ tag for the second leg of the Triple Crown at 5/2 on the morning line. Borel was atop this horse for both races and the win at Churchill was Borel’s third Kentucky Derby triumph in four years. It was trainer Todd Pletcher’s first win in 25 entries. At the Preakness, Super Saver started in the eight-post and finished eighth, his worst in graded stakes racing.

In 2011, Derby winner Animal Kingdom finished second to Shackleford (12/1) at the Preakness. Animal Kingdom (2/1), Dialed In (9/2) and Mucho Macho Man (6//1) were the top horses according to oddsmakers and they finished second, fourth and sixth respectively.

Shackleford started from the No. 5-spot, Animal Kingdom was No. 11 and Astrology (15/1), the ‘Show’ horse at third had the inside rail. Shackleford was just the second horse since 1998 not listed as the first or second favorite to win the race.

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Among the oldest spectator sports in the U.S., thoroughbred horse racing originated with the British who introduced the sport to Colonial America a century prior to the Revolutionary War. Proving hugely popular with the colonists, horse racing has remained so, that is until recent years. while still attracting a considerable number of fans, there has been a noticeable and continuing decline in live track attendance. this can be directly attributed to competition from other forms of gambling, and most certainly due to the convenience of betting at off-track facilities and more emphatically via the internet.there are still plenty of die-hard handicappers out there, but with gambling sites offering streaming audio/video, etc. the horse player can experience the excitement of the race and place bets with the on-line casino without leaving home. in fact there are literally billions of dollars still being waged on horse racing, but it is estimated that no more than 15% of those wagers are placed at the race track betting windows.

When bets are made off-track, the tracks end up with a lower percentage . however, all of that aside, internet wagering is continuing to grow by leaps and bounds, and there are apt to be more novice bettors playing the ponies through the web than there are novices attending the race tracks. Many bettors new to track betting dont realize that a player needs to at least know something of the basics of betting on a horse and the reason that particular animal was chosen as a would-be winner.To begin with, there are two types of horse racing competition. there is harness racing in which a driver rides a two-wheel cart and is pulled by a trotter, a horse specially bred and trained for this form of racing. Then there is thoroughbred racing in which a jockey sits astride a saddled racehorse.there are various ways to bet on a horserace, and would-be handicappers must familiarize themselves with all of them:Win place show : Win is to bet on which horse will win the race, and pays higher than place or show.

place is to bet that a horse will place first or second, and pays less than Win. show is betting that a chosen horse will finish in third place or higher and pays less than Win or place.Perfecta: Two winners must be chosen and must finish in the exact order as wagered.Quinella: Similar to the Perfecta, but winners can finish in any order.Trifecta: Bettor must choose the first three winners of a race in the exact order as wagered.Daily Double: a track wager in which the bettor must select the winners in two consecutive races. usually the first two races of the day.Pick three: The bettor must pick the winner in each of three consecutive races.Interactive race wagering was introduced in the U.S. in 1991, when Television Games Network (TVG) introduced a television racing network available through cable and satellite programming services.

Betting The Ponies

An argument used frequently to convince state legislators to legalize gambling at racetracks is that it is needed to preserve horse and/or dog racing. Too often when that claim is accepted, it results not just in survival for the racing and breeding industries – but a bonanza.

Ohio already has programs to subsidize horse racing. the Thoroughbred race Fund and Standardbred Development Fund (for harness racing) paid out nearly $3 million last year.

Now, some legislators want to give the Ohio Racing Commission a cut of the income from tracks where video wagering devices are being licensed.

That is how gambling-funded programs in West Virginia have operated for several years. Percentages of the gambling take go into the funds and are paid out to horse and dog racers and breeders.

That has made breeding and competing with racing dogs and horses a very lucrative business for some people. One greyhound breeder in West Virginia collected $655,012 from the state fund during a 12-month period. A total of more than $5.3 million was doled out through that program. even Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin’s mother is involved; her Tomblin Kennel Inc. raked in $268,410 from the breeder’s fund in 2010.

West Virginia’s gambling-supported horse racing fund did even better. In 2010 it paid out more than $8.1 million to the state’s two horse racing tracks, to pay prizes and otherwise help those involved in the racing industry.

Preserving horse racing in Ohio is one thing. Diverting gambling proceeds that could go to local and state governments, paying the money instead so breeders and competitors can reap huge rewards, is another. Legislators should ensure they do not allow that to occur.

Help, Don’t Enrich Racing Industry

Betting tips / Timeform / 13 may 2012 / Leave a comment Bet Now View Market

Timeform’s Gary Crispe focuses his daily preview on honest galloper Wealthy Lad as the Winter Championship series kicks off at Cranbourne today.

The popular series, with a host of heats at both the provincials and in town, culminates in a Listed $150,000 final at Flemington as part of finals day towards the end of the season.

Today’s TROA Luxbet Winter Championship Handicap (race 7) is heat one of the series over 1300m and it looks a good race for Wealthy Lad, which last won seven runs ago.

The Robert Smerdon-trained gelding has had some good form since then, following the win with two consecutive placings before a disappointing run on dry ground in the Listed Hareeba Stakes at Mornington.

He had almost two months break before resuming over 1000m at Caulfield where he was turned well back and battled away to finish last, but only 3.5 lengths from the winner in an unsuitable trip.

Up to 1100m there he was fitter and ran on late to finish sixth, albeit 6.6 lengths away from the winner, before finally getting to not only a suitable journey but also his preferred soft ground. That was at Warrnambool over their three day carnival where he tackled a 1400m open handicap with 56.5kg in heavy ground. Settling fourth in the run he loomed up in the straight but couldn’t catch Jungle Ruler, which relished the heavy ground best.

Wealthy Lad meets the winner 1.5kg better this time and has drawn the inside, where he should be camped just off Jungle Ruler again, which is expected to lead them out. The soft track suits, the trip suits and he drops to the minimum 54kg. It looks an ideal race and he should get the chance to break through.

The Judy Mawer-trained Lord Pyrus might want a little further but has a touch of class and is expected to run well fresh.

The good-looking black galloper wasn’t disgraced at huge odds in the Group 1 Toorak Handicap four back before finishing runner-up in the Sale Cup, a race certainly stronger than this. he was then fourth in the Group 3 Eclipse Stakes, another top run out of his grade, before a disappointing effort at Moonee Valley, so he then went for a break.

While he doesn’t boast the best fresh-up record, this is one of the easier races he’s contested in a while and he does have an excellent record on his home track, with three wins and two placings from five runs.

He also has a strong record at the trip, and with a second placing in a recent trial under his belt he looks set to run a big race fresh.

Sophrosyne is a lightly -aced galloper that may also want a little further but looks well placed here fresh.

The Mike Moroney-trained gelding hasn’t raced since a heat 11 of this series almost a year ago, so obviously had a set back. he is suited in this grade, has won his only try at the track, loves the soft tracks and should be running on strongly.

Jungle Ruler has a big weight but will be fitter for his last start win and will give a sight again.

While some of his rivals might lack a bit of race fitness, Jungle Ruler is better for the two runs back, the latest an all the way win over 1400m at Warrnambool.

He carried 61kg to success there so drops 1.5kg for this and has drawn better. he has a good record at the course, and just loves soft ground, the wetter the better. There’s no doubt he’ll give a big sight again.GARY’S TOP TIPS for RACE 7@CRANBOURNE(1) Wealthy Lad(2) Lord Pyrus(3)Sophrosyne

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