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>>> Oak Tree and Del Mar officials pow-wowed on Wed... No deal yet >>> Rees: Lisa's Booby Trap turning into an unlikely horse-racing star >>> Pricci: Rooting for the story - "If Lisa's Booby Trap keeps her undefeated record intact, I'll be smiling as I rip my tickets." >>> One-eyed Lisa's Booby Trap handles handicap well... "As long as the people with them use their noggin, then the horses do fine." >>> Texas 'small fry' level owner struggling, "I just don't know how much longer I can stay in this game." >>> Oak Tree's Zenyatta Stakes reverting back to Lady's Secret this year >>> Cinema: Upcoming Disney film tells story of legendary Secretariat and his owner >>> White: Preakness most productive of the Triple Crown races over the past decade >>> Documentary: Beyond the Stone Fences profiles Ky breeding operations >>> Racing history: Timonium Fair racing opens, 1887 >>> Saratoga P6 carryover/Wed results: Four winning tix pay $377K each >>> LA Times: The prestigious Oak Tree thoroughbred race meeting will move to Del Mar as a permanent home, possibly starting in 2011 >>> Nahill: "Baffert is a Hall of Fame whiner... That's all he has been doing for the last four years at Del Mar." >>> Calif takeout bill goes to governor >>> Watchmaker: New $5mil Preakness bonus - "It's doable." >>> DeRosa: Preakness bonus "may be the death of the Triple Crown series as we know it." >>> Hovdey: "Welcome to the wacky world of exchange betting, where gamblers can set themselves up as the house..." >>> Right on!... Rees: "Some of the same people who bemoan that horses don't stay in training longer are now calling for Rachel's retirement. You can't have it both ways." >>> Right on! Part 2: Brit authorities examine race-winning improved performance [and make it public that they're doing so]... "It remains entirely possible that everything was above board, but it is just as important to prove if that was the case as it is to prove it wasn't." >>> Q&A with John Simoni - recently retired from NYS Racing and Wagering Board... "Integrity is essential. It is important for regulators to regulate for integrity, but not over-regulate and tie the hands of those who are trying to operate the racetrack." >>> Nahill's latest Del Mar thumbs up/thumbs down... "Thumbs up - To the Del Mar fans watching Saratoga's Personal Ensign on Sunday after Rachel Alexandra was passed by Persistently near the wire. They cheered Rachel's demise once again and still want Zenyatta to kick her butt..." >>> Genaro: "With just six days left, here’s a mostly subjective look at Saratoga 2010..." >>> Hall of Fame jockey Bobby Ussery saw it all in his career >>> Racing-themed cartoon debuts in Saratoga program, "It's a fun feature for the program that can appeal to kids, rather than the program just having racing statistics."

>>> 'Story horse' Lisa's Booby Trap runs at Saratoga on Thurs >>> Grening: Tim Snyder [Lisa's Booby Trap] unchanged by sudden fame >>> VIDEO: Trainer Tim Snyder and Lisa's Booby Trap at Saratoga

LIVE online chat: NYRA prez Charles Hayward, Thurs 8pm ET Competition for the youth market? ABC's Nightline on Tues featured the story of online poker's attraction to teens and 20-somethings Marathon Man: The sequel? FRIDAY EVENT: Writer and horseplayer Pete Fornatale will attempt a day-long effort to wager on every race and every track around the world offered on TwinSpires Inspirational/VIDEO: 17YO son takes over training duties after farm accident sends Dad to wheelchair >>> Simulator teaching Euro jumps jocks how to fall thoroughbred daily news - horse racing news

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DEL MAR Thurs preview: $96K P6 carryover Wed results: Hi Ho Yodeler wins $100K Generous Portion Del Mar numbers through Sunday DOWN UNDER/ASIA 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 WEATHER Current forecasts for N American tracks HORSE RACING MEDIA [AUS] FOXSPORTS.AU [AUS] RACING AND SPORTS [AUS] SMH.COM.AU [AUS/NZ] THOROUGHBRED NEWS [AUS] VIRTUAL FORM GUIDE [ASIA] S CHINA MORNING POST BALTIMORE SUN BLOOD HORSE CBS.SPORTSLINE CHICAGO SUN-TIMES DAILY RACING FORM DALLAS/FT WORTH STAR TELEGRAM ESPN FOX SPORTS FRANCE GALOP [JAPAN] HORSERACING IN JAPAN KENTUCKY.COM LA TIMES LOUISVILLE COURIER JOURNAL MIAMI HERALD MSNBC NY DAILY NEWS NY POST NY TIMES SEATTLE TIMES SIGNONSANDIEGO.COM SOUTH AFRICAN HORSERACING STEEPLECHASE TIMES THOROUGHBRED TIMES TIMES PICAYUNE [U.K.] BBC [U.K.] GUARDIAN [U.K.] RACING POST [U.K.] SPORTINGLIFE.COM [U.K.] TELEGRAPH [U.K.] TIMES USA TODAY WASHINGTON POST

GENERAL NEWS 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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