Sentences with phrase «on a horse race»

They are like adults placing bets on a horse race.

I don't bet on horse races, but it's my understanding that race odds are figured based on the track record of the contenders.

Understandably shaken by his experiences there, he struggles to make a little cash through bare - knuckle boxing and betting on horse races with the help of a low - level gangster (Willem Dafoe as ersatz father figure).

Five other OTB corporations still operate across the state, allowing bettors to wager on horse races at remote tracks from 170 locations, including 50 on Long Island.

Chase cardholders can charge advance horse - racing bets — A decision by Chase to allow credit card transactions for online wagering on horse races is expected to prompt rivals to come out of the starting gate.

How much handle does a sportsbook actually take on a horse race like the Preakness?

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.

Best Odds Guaranteed — get best odds guaranteed on horse racing at 888Sport.

-- Just two new fees were proposed in Cuomo's budget bringing in $ 19.5 million: The fee for Statewide Central Registrar checks will go from $ 5 to $ 60 and there will be a surcharge on horse racing purses.

«This agreement is a tremendous achievement and will help to reassure communities in New York that rely on the horse racing industry,» Governor Paterson said.

A light romantic drama set on the horse racing circuit, Harlow is a socialite back from Europe, where he's picked up a lot of aristocratic attitude and a swell of a beau (Walter Pidgeon as a high society bachelor with old family money), and Clark Gable is a race track bookie and friend of the family who alternately competes with her and for her.

Before he can say his first service, Rev. Hill learns that Mrs. Rafferty's husband (Douglas Fowley) has spent the fund's entirety of twelve hundred dollars on a horse race.

The Osborne Studio Gallery specialises in sporting paintings and bronzes by leading contemporary artists, with an emphasis on horse racing, and has additionally branched out over the years to handle the works of many respected landscape and figurative painters.

The horse in question had been the subject of a wager between Ballendine and Poundmaker on a horse race that they had agreed would be run over the distance of a mile.

Regular special promotions are another excellent feature which keeps you up to date with the best deals on offer from Paddy Power and there are certainly plenty to enjoy with extra places on horse racing and money back specials on football just two examples.

«Given the spotlight that's on horse racing with Seabiscuit and the rivalry of Funny Cide and Empire Maker, we believe this has the potential to be the most - talked - about race since Cigar's record 16th straight win [in 1996],» says Mark Shapiro, an ESPN executive vice president.

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.

Investors are seeing a potential bidding war over a company that runs a lottery business and betting on horse racing and sports matches.

Or do like me, use a day off to enjoy a little baking happiness sitting on your kitchen bench just waiting to be put in the oven (it's Melbourne Cup Day today, we all get a day off to dress up, drink champagne and bet on horse racing... Welcome to Melbourne, great city to live in I must say...).

Since betting on the Derby brings out many people who wouldn't normally bet on horse racing, odds can be drastically different from sportsbook to sportsbook.

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).

The only surprise thus far this season has been City's poor form, which is turning a two horse race into a on horse race.

If you're wanting a bet on the horse racing, taking up a BetVictor best odds guaranteed bet makes complete sense.

Members operated a casino - style gambling club in Yonkers with illegal poker machines that held dice tournaments and took bets on horse races, and on March 7, 2011, Mark «Stymie» Maiuzzo and others torched a car they thought belonged to the bookmaker of a nearby gambling club to decrease business there and intimidate the bookmaker, the feds said.

In a recent TV special shown in the UK, called The System, a mother with big debts was persuaded to borrow even more money to bet on a horse race.

Taxable income can include profits from stocks or real estate sales, as well as winnings from the lottery, betting on horse races, or any casino (domestic or abroad).

«I only did it because they turned down my first idea, which was on horse racing.»

A rich tycoon decides one day that he wants to discover a way to win bets on horse races, and become even richer, so he invents a scheme.

At the casino night, salespeople received chips in the amount of their sales volume to use at gaming tables, to bet on horse races, or to spend at an auction of prizes.