Sentences with phrase «race horses which»

«No one in the horesracing industry should be monetarily rewarded for racing a horse which may be too sick to run without such drugs.»

Not exact matches

He cites a classic decision - making study in which horse racing experts were given information to predict the outcome of a race, and asked their level of confidence in their prediction.

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.

The Mirzas have entertained executives from Aetna and Bromley Communications, a Hispanic advertising agency, by taking them to races in which Azam's horses competed.

Opponents said it would weaken New York's current gaming operations, including the horse racing industry which has been propped up by state government, by giving gamblers more options.

But according the AARP (which obviously has a horse in this race), the numbers simply don't justify this preference, which may be more a product of what kind of businesses older entrepreneurs tend to start:

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.

In one deal last December, Nevada State Bank hammered out a $ 5 million deal with a satellite television company that supplies hotels in Las Vegas with live coverage of horse races, says Dallas Haun, CEO of the bank, which has only $ 4 billion in assets and is owned by Zions.

With Santorum sidelined, the forces of darkness in the culture wars don't have a horse in the race anymore, which is a good thing.

Since it is rather expensive to keep a horse who is not paying his way, he was entered in a claiming race, which means that he could be claimed or bought.

The largest foodservice facility at the Hollywood Casino is the Skyline Terrace, which seats 800 patrons and has a view through glass of the track where horses are raced year - round.

The against - all - odds victory captured the imagination of the assembled crowd, which included the Watts, an Irish race horse loving family who had built a thriving whiskey distillery.

Last season, Spurs famously came third in a two - horse race for the Premier League title, when capitulating under the pressure of being Leicester's last remaining rivals, and it was our care - free winning form which led us to leapfrog our noisy neighbours.

Horses and unsaddled jockeys sling themselves round a circular track constructed in a city centre, in a race which lasts just 90 seconds (not 90 minutes!).

Answer: Most everyone can (and did) forget the Hall of Fame jockey, and the Rancocas stable, and horse racing in general, to say nothing of boxing (which once entertained millions of TV viewers every Friday night) and the Indianapolis 500 (which from the»50s through the»80s was a fixture on the cover of this magazine) and countless other famous sporting events and sportsmen whose hour came and went.

Arsenal have had a difficult start to the Premier League campaign, despite successive 1 - 0 victories over West Bromwich Albion and Southampton, leaving them a long way adrift of rivals Chelsea and Manchester City in the battle for top spot in the English top flight, which already looks like very much being a two horse race.

The race in which Karin Yarosh was injured was in fact made up of a dozen questionable horses who had never won.

A gelding named Rancho Lejos was last in the 1970 Derby, a race in which a horse named Holy Land fell midway through the second turn and did not finish.

This disgusted her no end, so she said to herself: I can't get my boys well on that kind of a price,» and in spite of Jimmy Picou's urgings Saucy (being a stubborn sort of gal) had made her decision and she just refused to come in first — she actually came in last in a race in which 10 horses ran.»

The seven races for which Amy says he accepted fix money — to hold horses back, take them wide or fail to warm them up properly before a race — were all trifecta events, with the ultimate payoffs ranging from $ 911 to $ 5,394 for each winning $ 2 trifecta ticket.

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.

When the stewards receive all the tags representing specimens from the horses tested on any racing day, they put the whole batch in a small brown envelope which is then sealed, stamped across the fold in three places with red wax and locked up, generally overnight.

Adjacent to these and protected by a high wire fence is a blue - and - white trailer, the property of the Kentucky State Racing Commission, in which postrace tests are conducted to determine whether illegal drugs are present in the saliva or urine of winners and other selected horses that have raced each day.

Only then does anyone discover which horse carried traces of an illegal drug on the previous race day.

Wilson's figures also show that a far larger number — 3,566 horses — broke down so severely last year that they could not finish the races in which they were hurt.

America's biggest equine event, The National Horse Show, which opens its annual eight - day stand next week (Nov. 2 - 9) in Madison Square Garden, had no more class than a six - day bike race when it was first held in a car barn in 1883.

The Sept. 23 race had five winning $ 2 triple tickets in which the first, second and third horses were picked in order.

Her horses started 538 times, won 136 races and earned $ 282,675, which is more than 70 % of the average daily handle wagered at this track.

A lose will take that to seven points, something which could be impossible to compensate in a three horse race.

However, this, we argue, does not reflect the superiority of the Liga BBVA as a whole... «Two - horse race» is often the most common description of the La Liga title race, which, even to those of us who defend the league, appears to be undeniable in recent years.

This dream is being able to make his horse racing debut in a charity event which is scheduled to take place on November 24 of 2017.

Delusional pom at best!Wenger is like a horse which has run its last race.

Additionally, Klopp's success against Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga with his Dortmund side was impressive, but that was a much more simple two - horse race, in his native league, of which he had been familiar with for decades.

«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.

When Corrigan built Hawthorne and opened the track in 1891, according to the defunct trade publication The Thoroughbred Record, «Chicago racing equaled that of New York and everything else in the country for the quality of its meetings and the grade of horses which they attracted.»

Friday 11th November, the spa town's famous racecourse offers more than just the spectacle of horses, with a festival of the countryside — the annual Cheltenham Countryside Race Day which heralds the start of three days racing at Cheltenham from the 11 - 13 November.

Cuomo's deal, which was approved by the state Legislature last month, does not preclude bingo halls, horse racing tracks, charitable games of chance, or any gaming facility operated pursuant to the federal Indian Gaming Regulatory Act from operating within the counties where Indian casinos were granted exclusivity.

When we start talking about the substance, and not just the horse race of this thing, then I think you'll see the depth of my thinking, which is my job.»

Shimkus said he would only be satisfied if the plan, which was not made publicly available Tuesday, included the re-privatization of NYRA with key stakeholders represented, and if it honored an agreement from 2008 that granted a specific percentage of VLT revenues from Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens to the horse - racing industry.

Cuomo's budget plan has proposed some subtle changes in the state's gaming industry, which includes horse racing, video lottery, harness track, racinos and full - scale casinos.

The Financial Times said the election had become a three - horse race as Clegg stood firm in the debate which has «left the election wide open».

Albany - Gov. Andrew Cuomo's 2018 - 19 budget plan has proposed some subtle changes in the state's gaming industry, which includes horse racing, video lottery, harness track, racinos and full - scale casinos.

Unlike that time - honored tradition of city dwellers heading to the East End in the summer, attendance at the legendary horse races at Belmont has diminished over the years, which is why Gov. Andrew Cuomo's recently announced plans to add a $ 1 billion dollar arena and retail space to the property has gotten locals talking.

After a public bidding process, Gov. Andrew Cuomo selected a plan in which developers would build a new arena for the Islanders, plus an entertainment complex, at Belmont Park, the historic horse - racing track, which sits on state - owned land in the hamlet of Elmont.

«If ex President Mahama has political experience, with the in - fighting in the NDC that is going to worsen in the period ahead, it's a taking a horse for racing and after losing, the same horse which is sick is used for another racing contest.

The state's economic development agency recently sent notices to companies that submitted Belmont proposals in 2012 - 13, informing them that the New York Racing Association, which runs horse racing at the track, is working on a plan for what's known as «Parcel A» on Belmont's north side and that it is «no longer entertaining offers on Parcel A at this time.&Racing Association, which runs horse racing at the track, is working on a plan for what's known as «Parcel A» on Belmont's north side and that it is «no longer entertaining offers on Parcel A at this time.&racing at the track, is working on a plan for what's known as «Parcel A» on Belmont's north side and that it is «no longer entertaining offers on Parcel A at this time.»

A horse racing enthusiast, Bonomo was appointed by Cuomo in March 2015 as chairman of the board of the New York Racing Association, which runs operations at the state's three thoroughbred tracks, including Saratoga Race Cracing enthusiast, Bonomo was appointed by Cuomo in March 2015 as chairman of the board of the New York Racing Association, which runs operations at the state's three thoroughbred tracks, including Saratoga Race CRacing Association, which runs operations at the state's three thoroughbred tracks, including Saratoga Race Course.

That's because profits from the new VLTs, which would be on top of the 5,525 machines already at Resorts World, wouldn't add to the 16 percent of revenue that now goes to the New York Racing Association to support horse racing purses, operations and capital improvements at its tracks, including Saratoga Race CRacing Association to support horse racing purses, operations and capital improvements at its tracks, including Saratoga Race Cracing purses, operations and capital improvements at its tracks, including Saratoga Race Course.

The top two executives at the non-profit New York Racing Association, which operates New York's three state - owned horse tracks, were fired last week amid allegations they knew the company was collecting more than the legal amount of so - called takeout on certain bets, costing winning bettors an estimated $ 8.5 million dollars.