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From events and festivals to enjoying a performance at Metropolis Performing Arts Centre or taking in horse races at Arlington Park, to trying out a new restaurant or enjoying a stroll around downtown or around Lake Arlington, we have loads of activities to fill your calendar.

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When American Pharoah crossed the finish line at the Kentucky Derby, he earned more than the most coveted title in horse racing, he earned another couple million to his name.

The devices, which at first gave Barnes & Noble a horse in the e-book race, have turned out to be an albatross for the company, with losses of almost $ 70 million in the first nine months of the fiscal year, on sales of only $ 211 million.

In today's «derivative» stage of finance capitalism, large Wall Street banks make money off their customers and counterparties by betting which way the economy will go, much like betting on a horse race — except that «fixing» the financial race is not illegal, or at least is not prosecuted.

The big issue is indeed that when one is brought up in an environment that encourages the belief that there is one one horse in the race, ie the Christian god or at least the Judeo - Christian god, people can WRONGLY assume that the choice is between a narrow range of theist options and atheism.

The phones haven't stopped ringing at buyout giants The Carlyle Group and TPG ever since investment bankers found out the pair was locked in what looks like a two - horse race for Australia's second biggest wine business.

The legend of The Tyrconnell ® was born in 1876, when R. M. Delamere entered his beautiful chestnut colt, Tyrconnell, in the 10th running of the prestigious National Produce Stakes Horse Race at The Curragh, considered Ireland's most important thoroughbred racecourse.

«The relatively high proportion of Northern Territorians who've had a bet at 11.1 % does buck this trend, however its worth remembering that the Northern Territory has long been a home to many Australians sports and horse racing betting companies due to the favourable laws in the jurisdiction.

SIDELINED: For at least six months, Jockey WILLIE SHOEMAKER, who suffered a fractured leg — the first major injury of his 19 - year career — in a two - horse spill during a race at Santa Anita.

It's past 4 A.M. in Squaw Valley, Calif. — the dead of night, the hour of the wolf, when sane people are sleeping under warm blankets, not standing in the chilly blackness at the eastern edge of the Sierra Nevada waiting for a horse race to begin.

The Japanese have long been big on such Western sports as baseball, golf, bowling and even horse racing (for the past couple of years they have been top bidders at thoroughbred sales in the U.S. and Britain), but now they may have gone one step too far toward sports insanity: they have taken up baton twirling.

HORSE RACING — JEWEL»S REWARD, fiery Maine Chance bay colt with eye on Derby roses, responded with alacrity when stung by whip in stretch, pulled away from Noureddin to win $ 59,500 Wood Memorial at Jamaica (see below) by half length after surviving foul claim by runner - up.

HORSE RACING — DEARLY PRECIOUS ($ 4.20), Mike Hole riding, won the $ 105,205 Sorority Stakes for 2 - year - old fillies by 2 1/4 lengths over Optimistic Gal at Monmouth Park in Oceanport, N.J..

Hooked on horses from the day her stepfather Charles Castrenze, a chef at the Holiday Inn in Aberdeen, Md., first took her to the track as a toddler, she began working weekends at Laurel Race Course during her senior year in high school.

It was slightly before noon and horse - players in the paddock area at Tropical Park assumed the postures of their trade — they threw back their heads like turkeys in a rainstorm and drank in the sun and dreamily contemplated nothing at all, or they shaded their eyes and pored over agate type in the Racing Form's columns and scrawled notes to themselves in the margins.

Not since 1920 had any horse been able to carry over 130 successfully in a race at a distance greater than a mile and a half.

Orb won his first race two days after Thanksgiving at Aqueduct and then won his first race of 2013 in a 11 / 8 - mile stake on Jan. 13 at Florida's Gulfstream Park, winter home for some of McGaughey's horses.

At least we did nt come third (again) in a 2 horse race like Spurs lol who return to Thursday night football as is normal

That is, even though the horses have gone on to another track, the horseplayers would turn out as usual, watch piped - in tote - board figures and see closed - circuit telecasts from the distant tracks (both before and during the races) and make their bets at the old familiar windows.

Assuming neither of the horses is scratched, ESPN will air SportsCenter from Saratoga on the morning of the race as well as a three - hour SportsCenter from there starting at 5 p.m. ESPN had slotted one hour for the Travers but expanded its coverage after the Belmont Stakes, which drew 24 million viewers on NBC — the highest - rated race in more than a decade.

Although it's still early in the legislative process, California officials are preparing to challenge the 1992 Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA) which would allow wagering at six horse racing tracks and sports betting at the 57 tribal casinos located within the state.

87 Consecutive losses by 9 - year - old gelding Zippy Chippy, the losingest horse in thoroughbred history, after he finished second by a neck in a five - furlong race at the Three County Fair in Northampton, Mass..

Though 13 horses went to the post, it was expected to be a three - way race among Slavic, an impressive Gulfstream allowance - race winner; Rhythm, last year's juvenile champion, whose 3 - year - old debut was a dismal seventh - place finish in the Feb. 10 Hutcheson Stakes at Gulfstream; and a son of Triple Crown winner Seattle Slew named Yonder, who made a strong stretch run in the Hutcheson to finish second.

Also remember the BPL is the toughest league in the world, no longer is it a 2 horse race between us and United (like it was pre 2005 in your article), there are at least 5 - 6 teams capable of winning it — so it has become a lot more difficult to win honors and the fact that we are considered the best team next to Chel $ ea right now and in 2nd place shows just how Wenger HAS indeed evolved with the game.

HORSE RACING — Ron Turcotte rode TOM ROLFE ($ 4.40) to an easy 2 3/4 - length victory over Isle of Greece in the $ 34,225 Chesapeake Stakes at Laurel.

In previous years he had attempted to train as many as 60 horses in three divisions, employing assistant trainers to manage each division and traveling to the different tracks in Canada and various parts of the U.S. where the divisions were racing at the momenIn previous years he had attempted to train as many as 60 horses in three divisions, employing assistant trainers to manage each division and traveling to the different tracks in Canada and various parts of the U.S. where the divisions were racing at the momenin three divisions, employing assistant trainers to manage each division and traveling to the different tracks in Canada and various parts of the U.S. where the divisions were racing at the momenin Canada and various parts of the U.S. where the divisions were racing at the moment.

Jade Prince and Nat Lobell — driven by the Kopases, father and son — finished one - two in the Cane Pace, leaving the Cinderella horse of the evening back among the pumpkins at Yonkers Raceway in the richest harness race ever

If I was at RM I'd score goals — it's a 2 horse race every year, he's surrounded by some of the best players in the world and unlike the PL half the Spanish teams give up at half time when they're losing.

Tipperary still breeds great jump horses — in the 198 races held at Cheltenham from 1981 through» 91, Ireland bred 119 of the winners — but current economic circumstances mean that these days the best young Irish prospects tend to be bought up and shipped to England.

HORSE RACING — SABIN ($ 3.40), with Eddie Maple in the irons, won the $ 119,800 Sheepshead Bay Handicap on the turf at Belmont Park by two lengths over Thirty Flags.

After lunchWinkfield goes to the races, at 2 o'clock in the summer, at 1 o'clock in thefall, to watch through a pair of battered binoculars while his horses run andjump at Long - champ or Saint - Cloud or Le Tremblay, at Fontainebleau or Compi √ ® gneor Enghien or right next door at Maisons - Laffitte, wherever a race meet isunder way around Paris.

Three days beforethe race Billy Turner, the trainer of 1977 Triple Crown winner Seattle Slew, reflected on seeing horses come up short at the Belmont in their bid to winracing's jewel.

The horses were standing in the paddock, waiting to be saddled for the eighth race at Oklahoma City's Remington Park on Sept. 2, when the word came down — the news that trainer Ray Spencer had been leerily awaiting since a torrential downpour struck earlier that afternoon.

Secretariat had one of the greatest runs in horse racing history at the Belmont Stakes.

Jockey Kent Desormeaux, aboard a 3 - year - old gelding named Judge Hammer, was cruising to victory in a claiming race at Hollywood Park last Dec. 11 when the horse inexplicably ducked and threw him just before the finish.

There were horse races for everybody at the world's famous resorts last week, but none could equal the feature at the track they call The Spa, where a young colt turned in an old - pro performance

The 1995 college student's parents and grandparents might have played bingo or bet on horse racing (at a racetrack, not at an OTB parlor or in the living room using a phone account).

Shortly before Arazi won the most prestigious race for juveniles in France, the Grand Criterium at Longchamp on Oct. 5, the sheikh sent his emissaries to Paulson, offering to buy half the horse for $ 5 million.

After they worked it out, the deal was essentially this: The sheikh would get half the horse, race him in his colors when Arazi competed in Europe and stand him there at stud following his 3 - year - old year.

As three - year - old horses jockey, so to speak, for position to make the field in next month's Kentucky Derby, one of the races many will be keeping their eye on will be Saturday's Wood Memorial Stakes at Aqueduct.

HORSE RACING — YORKTOWN ($ 12.80), an injury - plagued 5 - year - old, came on strong in the stretch to finish 1 1/4 lengths in front of Globemaster in the $ 115,900 John B. Campbell Handicap at Bowie, Md..

I have overlooked Getz a couple of times in the weekly Heisman Horse Race, but Getz is leading the nation at 177.0 yards per game after a 29 - carry, 204 - yard performance against Navy.

HORSE RACING — Kentucky - bred WILLOWICK ($ 26.60) ran the 1 «⅛ - mile feature in 1:48 [4/5] for an upset victory in the $ 67,600 San Fernando Stakes for 4 - year - olds at Santa Anita, Calif..

Even though they have been surprisingly successful in previous runnings of this race, foreign horses and their riders are at a distinct disadvantage in the International.

Wade is from Lawton, Okla., and he started out training quarter horses, racing them at places like Ruidoso Downs in New Mexico and Los Alamitos in California.

Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini has hit back at Jose Mourinho's claim that Chelsea are the «little horse» in the title race.

I generally do better on horse racing bets and my modest bet yesterday was a fiver on Heartbreak City in the Ebor at York at 12 - 1.

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In the opening race top trainer Richard Hannon saddles a horse names Zabaletaswansong and although he's favourite, the odds at 7/4 (this morning) look reasonable.

«We expect a lot of growth with all the development going on in downtown Arlington Heights and the reopening of the racetrack,» Sonneland said, referring to the resurrection of horse racing next year at Arlington International Racecourse, which has been shuttered since 1998.