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Although I'm obviously not helping myself telling you this, in the event you and Roger didn't get the email, sign ups for the Kee contest start by phone tomorrow at 10 a.m.
Also, if team Tgraph is looking for a unique way to celebrate and Roger is going to be in the Big Apple anytime soon, I saw something which I'm assuming is pretty unique Sat night in Columbus. By now everyone
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The link to the Official Rules explains it pretty well, and while the total number of people who earn points and the amount of those points depends on the number of entries, the points awarded to the winner is the same in all contests where nhc spots are awarded, i.e., 3,000.
Given the Tour cash awards and the potential $2 million bonus, as well as the qualifying spots for Jan 2011, one of Rog
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Just saw the interview on HRTV. Talk about cha ching. From $800 to $50k in the finale, not to mention enough points to take the Tour lead in the clubhouse. Winning this kind of contest three years in a row is quite an accomplishment.
Congrats all around on a job well done.
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TG does indeed deserve players' thanks for providing Sheets and footing the cost for having the incomparable Bill Spillane on the scene doing everything he can to help players at all of the major, as well as quite a few of the "minor", contests. My personal view is that this investment has played a role in TG players' substantial earnings and overall contest success over the f
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Unofficial top ten finishers, their three day overall totals and payouts, not including day money, which as many of you know is considerable in what I hope is not the last hurrah for this contest:
1. Marc Behrend 2619.40 $306,000
2. Richard Diluca 2557.00 $54,400
3. Richard Zimmer 2391.00 $47,600
4. Michael Brown 2381.80 $34,000
5. Barbara Buckley 2358.00 $20,400
6. Jason Wilb
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If you haven’t gotten around to joining, or investigating whether or not it makes sense to join, the 2009 Tour, there’s no better time than the present, since the first online, no entry fee contest limited to Tour members only is on the Fountain of Youth card this coming Saturday.
The FOY contest is the first of five online, no entry fee contests for Tour members, which more than covers the sa
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I just received a call from Sin City with what I interpreted as the "official"--as in you should be reading about it tomorrow-- word that while TrackNet and the casinos did not work out an overall deal by today's deadline, Tracknet was willing to agree to an extension until Jan 25, which covers both the NHC and the Shootout scheduled to take place at the Red Rock on Sunday.
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Five in a row actually, which I admit to being proud of, but there's a very nice profile of Trey Stiles, who's made it seven years in a row, the record for consecutive appearances, on the B-H site. And if that record is not enough to tame my ego, all I need to do is take another look at this year's final NHC Tour Leaderboard.
I'm thinking GP in March this year, details to f
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The number of entries at the Last Chance Contest has probably had as big a high/low variation as any qualifier. Given everything that's going on, logic would seem to dictate that the number will be down significantly this year, which could result in a very favorable ratio of spots to entries for those who do decide to make the trip.
If you're so inclined, you might want to take a loo
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As you know, there is a virtually unlimited supply of non paid consulting positions in this industry, and assuming you're referring to the Horseplayer's Coalition, I'm the Chairman. Since you mentioned him by name, when asked at the Marketing Summit what each of the members brought to the table so to speak, I told everyone that I was pretty sure I wouldn't be able to see strai
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Given TGJB's and this forum's leadership and views on cleaning up the game, there's no reason I can think of why TGJB shouldn't be literally, as well as figuratively, standing behind Alex Waldrop when the 10/15 press conference takes place in the Big Apple.
Polls can obviously be manipulated, but John Della Volpe, the guy who owns and runs SocialSphere, has been doing Harva
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They deliberately did not invite reporters to the meeting,and with the exception of identifying the general areas which would be part of the initiative, asked the attendees to keep what they read and heard confidential. However, Waldrop did hold a press conference afterwards, and in addition to the piece in the Tbred Times which is linked above, B-H also ran a general story.(http://www.bloodhorse
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I appreciate the support and kind words, but there's really no need to thank me.
I received a number of emails this morning indicating that the link in my original post doesn't work, which wasn't a complete surprise, since although I use the same copy and paste method I'm assuming everyone else is using, it sure seems like I can never get any link to work right, which is wh
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Actually, man up is an exaggeration, given that what I'm asking everyone who reads this post to do will take less than two minutes of not particularly strenuous effort.
As almost everyone presumably knows by now, legislation has been introduced which would eliminate one of the fundamentally unfair tax burdens placed on horseplayers, namely the requirement that unlike other gamblers, horse
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That's probably because they don't have one. You can get contest information and register by either calling 1-888-566-7223 or sending an email to contest@coastcasinos.net.
Assuming my memory is accurate and the format is the same as last year, it's 15 optional and no
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Congrats Roger on winning what can only be described as one of the "majors." In addition to the cash, I hope you were signed up for the Tour and pocketed the 3,500 tour points you earned.
Given that the nhc contest schedule for July is a tad on the light side, perhaps you'll decide to invest some of your winnings in the big cash contest which takes place July 24-26 at the Gold
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Brown ran with a quarter crack in the Derby and Preakness:
It's not clear from Haskin's piece, which does nothing more than parrot what Dutrow said, if this is a new quarter crack and/or there's been some problem with the acrylic patches Brown wore in both races.
Brown was severely run down after the Preakness, so much so that on both of his rear legs Brown bled through the
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Icabad might be one of the slowest going in,but he's also one of the most lightly raced, has only lost once, has a very good young trainer,and has a win over the track. If Gayego can jump from a 5 to a negative half, and Riley Tucker can jump from a 5 to a 1, I don't see why Icabad can't jump from a 5 to a negative 5.
On a more serious note, the motivation for the play was more
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Unlike a few of the blockheads earlier on the card, Bridgmohan didn't panic, and let SC settle and run his race, on a track which imo is favoring off the pace runners. Congrats on a second Gr1. Now all I need to turn the win into a monster score is for Icabad Crane or Ky Bear to upset Brown tomorrow.
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I wanted to get at least some idea of the new glue ons I heard so much about during the Kee meet,and which Brown will presumably be wearing again tomorrow, so thanks much ajkreider for the link.
I like Randy Moss and while he might pay very close attention to detail, I'm pretty sure that he can't change the laws of arithmetic. There's a link to the exact CD dimensions which were
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Hi David. As you and anyone else who saw the article in today's DRF already knows, there's still time to register online for the NHC Tour and participate in the free Oaks/Derby contest, which is offering two spots in the NHC.
Theoretically, the extra distance Brown has to travel is indeed almost exactly five feet, but what I think is much more noteworthy are the quarter cracks on bot
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I could not possible agree more with your logic elkurzhal, but unfortunately logic and fairness have very little to do with the tax code. Without going into all of the details, the bottom line reason for not pushing to change the 300-1 rule is that there's literally zero chance of success. At the same time, the chances of changing the $5k withholding rule are reasonably good, due in large pa
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Sorry for the delay, particularly given that week one sold out very quickly, but my understanding is that the top 20 finishers in the nhcqualify finals at the end of the month will earn tour points.
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You can play online, in the contests which are online. You can also play at live venues, so points earned in both types of contests count, with the qualification that you can only count the points you earn in a maximum of five contests, a rule which was added as part of an effort to, at least somewhat, level the playing field for those who can't make it to very many contests. btw,you can dow
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Thanks for the kind words, and special thanks to Alan for his positive comments on the Tour yesterday on Jason Levin's "Inside Racing."
Assuming my count was correct, and assuming everyone who signed up played in yesterday's contest, the Tour is starting out with 825 players. To clear up any possible confusion on the matter, March 1st was not a deadline, and you can sign up
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At most contests, there is usually a very significant TG contingent, so assuming most of that contingent signs up for the Tour, and I'm going to go out on a limb and say they will, the answer to your question is yes, for good reason. Although JB would be in a better position to provide specifics,the remarkable success of TG players in handicapping contests pretty much speaks for itself.
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Actually, you don’t have to subscribe to satellite radio in order to listen to “At the Races with Steve Byk”, which is legitimately claimed to be “the most listened to horse racing program in the world.” That’s because the show is broadcast live, five nights a week, at:
Steve is a very good handicapper in his own right, has his own racing website (http://www.derbytrail.com/contact.php), an
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There are a few items which might be worth adding to the mostly accurate discussion of the technical aspects of signers. Not all ADWs "aggregate" your bets so that you end up with signers which would otherwise not have been signers. Equally important, in what can only be described as an example of bonehead design, the United Tote self betting terminals where you swipe a betting card (li
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As indicated in the February NTRA Newsletter, which came out today, the Tour will hold an online contest for Tour Members only on March 1st. Three qualifying spots for NHC X will be up for grabs. The cost to enter and other details will follow shortly, but the basic proposition is that the $125 fee to become a Tour Member will be incorporated in the cost of entering the contest. In other words if
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If the question is whether you can play the Autotote contest online, the answer is no. If the question is whether online contests such as, for example, Twin Spires and nhc online will be part of the Tour, the answer is yes.
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