Thurs preview: $96K P6 carryover
Wed results: Hi Ho Yodeler wins $100K Generous Portion
Del Mar numbers through Sunday

2010 Australian Racing Hall of Fame inductees announced
Alandi and Efficient head MelCup weights
Singapore: Racing to continue at Kranji despite strangles positive
Racing Queensland HOTY and Industry Award winners
Sat results: Toorak Toff takes G1 Golden Rose at Rosehill
Current forecasts for N American tracks
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Borel loses ride on Mine That Bird at Saratoga
Churchill Downs cancels plans for Halloween night racing
NYC Off-Track Betting goes to tougher plan 'B'
Texas: Retama lowers prices, takeout for short, family-oriented meet
Philadelphia Park becomes Parx Racing
Dennis Brida - former trainer and exec dir of NY Thoroughbred Breeders - now a deli owner, but still has a foot in the racing game
Arizona: Small race-meets cancelled after budget cuts
Winner, winner, chicken dinner! Poultry tops horses in Ky farm economy
NYC-OTB drops early-retirement offer
2YO star Kantharos injured, retired
Ky: Out-of-competition drug testing penalties spark joint committee debate
Hawthorne cuts stakes purses, race dates
Illinois adjusts account wagering cap
More Rachel follow-up
>>> OUCH! Shuback: Rachel - "...very nice but always overrated filly..."
>>> Scott: "...it may be time to move on, to a broodmare career and the Hall of Fame."
>>> Haskin: Retire Rachel? Why?
>>> Racing fan forum:
"No need to retire her if she's healthy, and that appears to be the case."
"She has a few more Grade I victories in her, even against top competition."
"As I mentioned before, years ago many great horses went through streaks where their brilliance appeared to be diminishing but back then the owners just kept racing them and the horses came back strong."
>>> Team Rachel, "We'll definitely wait until she goes back to the track and then we'll speak again."
Secretariat movie
>>> Q&A with Secretariat flick director... "I wanted the audience to experience the races as participants, not as spectators."
>>> New Secretariat movie poster unveiled
>>> Cronley: "In most horse racing flicks, there's one staple of the business that is usually relegated to crowd scenes, blimp shots, and bit parts: the gamer. The horse player. The gambler."
NY Times looks at racing and slots. Surmises that "the lifeline between the horse racing industry and gambling revenues is coming under greater scrutiny."
Sign of the times: Slots-less Canterbury Park struggles... Track prez, "We're lagging farther and farther behind the competition, and every year it gets more difficult."
Finley: Racetrack success story - "What sets Tioga [Downs] apart and makes it exceptional is track management's commitment to the sport."
NY: End to Aqueduct VLT selection process in sight
Calif: Takout/wagering exchange bill OK's in state assembly, moves to Senate
But wagering exchange implementation in Calif would be delayed under compromise
Trackmaster blog: The vicious cycle of raising takeout
UK: Racing industry, bookies at odds over how much should be paid for the right to collect bets on the product... To the bookies, the levy is a subsidy for a sport that doesn't need it or deserve it. For racing, the levy is nothing more than a
rights payments by which bookmakers pay to use racing as vehicle for gambling
Christine: When Alan Balch was the marketing genius at Santa Anita, a long time ago, he grouped fans into three categories: new, occasional and regular. "Our job," Balch said, "is to keep the regulars coming back for more, and upgrade the other two groups over time. Make the new fans into occasional, and the occasional into regular."
From the "It's the Same All over" Dept: Irish scribe laments, "The Champion Stakes appears to be being sold to Joe Public almost apologetically."
Q&A with SoCal steward Scott Chaney,"I think that transparency helps our image... "
Jockey health: Univ of Delaware working with riders to create "a nutritional program that will enhance the jockeys' performance while supporting a healthy lifestyle"
Pletcher on 2010 success at The Spa, "I'd probably give (the meet) an A-minus."
DeRosa: Winner and losers from this past weekend
New ideas: UK scribe lauds Racing for Change's jockey video interview initiative... "It will prove to be another tick in RFC's credit column."
Davidowitz: "The contrast between the ultra-conservative modern practice of racing horses once every four, five or six weeks, or even six or seven times a year," vs the campaign of a horse like Carryback [free registration required]
VIDEO: Saratoga jockeys beat local media team in charity softball event on Monday
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Wed results: Fancy Point dominant in $70K PG Johnson
Saratoga numbers through Monday
Media coverage:
>>> The Saratogian
>>> Albany Times-Union
>>> Saratoga Special
>>> NY Daily News
>>> NY Post
>>> YNN/Albany: Local TV news coverage
>>> Pricci's Saratoga diary
>>> Crist's Spa blog
>>> Novak's blog and podcast
>>> Zast's Saratoga blog
 AUDIO: Live from Saratoga throughout the meet -- At the Races with Steve Byk... Sirius satellite ch 126/xm Ch 243, or via the internet, M-F 9am-noon ET


Sat preview: O'Brien runs three in bid for sixth Irish Champion
Sat preview: Starspangledbanner likely to contest Sprint Cup
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HAWTHORNE RACE COURSE, Cicero, IL
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KEENELAND, Lexington, KY
KENTUCKY DOWNS, Franklin, KY
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PIMLICO, Baltimore, MD
PINNACLE RACE COURSE, New Boston, MI
PORTLAND MEADOWS, Portland, OR
PRAIRIE MEADOWS, Des Moines, IA
PRESQUE ISLE DOWNS, Erie, PA
REMINGTON PARK, Oklahoma City, OK
RETAMA PARK, San Antonio, TX
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SAM HOUSTON, Houston, TX
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WOODLANDS, Kansas City, KS
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ZIA PARK, Hobbs, NM

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