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Horse racing cannot be allowed to fail in the state for reasons that transcend Trenton’s budgetary concerns. The industry helps preserve open space and farms, and creates jobs beyond the grandstands.

Allowing racings at tracks is a partial solution. Slot machines at race tracks would add revenue to the tracks, and there is no compelling evidence that those machines would be a death knell for the casinos.

The industry is not in any position yet to go it alone. It needs help. Just because the administration seems to be placing all of its bets on Atlantic City, there is no reason for it to fold its hand on horse racing.

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Off-track wagering parlors, particularly those that can be housed in existing buildings or restaurants, are no panacea, but deserve a chance.

Some members of the governor’s inner circle, including Jon F. Hanson, chairman of Christie’s gaming advisory panel, don’t seem to get any of this. At last week’s summit, Hanson was mule-headed in his insistence that the state should pull the plug on financial support for the horse racing industry while at the same time pouring money into Atlantic City by taking it over. His panel in July released a report that was bullish on Atlantic City’s prospects and opposed adding slots to the racetracks.

Hanson said Atlantic City casinos can outperform those in nearby states because they have the advantages of “the Atlantic Ocean and the beach.” It’s had those “advantages” all along. But they have been dissipated by growing competition for gambling dollars from racings and gaming parlors in neighboring states. That competition will get increasingly stiffer.

Removing state support for horse racing immediately, without giving the industry a chance to reorganize itself, would be calamitous. The governor needs to stop his either-or thinking. The choice is not between horses and Atlantic City. It’s about how to make them mutually beneficial.

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Fair horse racing making positive tracks

The Big Fresno Fair horse racing hit paydirt as a host track last year. Wagering increased, attendance rose and profits nearly tripled.

It could be more of the same for this year’s 10-day meet that starts Wednesday with full fields in 10 races.

Fresno again is a host track – no other Northern California tracks are running – and will receive the major proportion of revenue generated from wagering.

That was good news for race fans and horsemen – the breeders, trainers and jockeys. The Big Fresno Fair already is known for reinvesting any profits into improving the overall racing experience. This offseason was no different.

The new satellite wagering facility will be open during the fair only for California Horse Racing Board card holders. It will close after the fair and reopen Nov. 10 to the public. The public also can wager on other tracks in the grandstands during the fair.

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Alkire said the smaller facility will be more cost-efficient to run, and customers finally will have their own parking lot.

The new betting parlor will have air-conditioning, recycled rubber floors, large-screen TVs along the walls, betting windows and a full-menu dining.

“It’s going to be more up-scale, high-tech,” Alkire said. “We’re always trying to make the meet bigger and better. It’s imperative that we reinvest to show people in horse racing, in the community, that we care about them.”

Last year’s profits also were used to refurbish two barns on the backside, $40,000 went to track upgrades and additional money for incentives, such as the $10,000 prize to the top trainer, awards for top jockeys and the annual barbecue for horsemen.

“Fresno, by far, has done more to improve racing than any of the other six fairs,” said Larry Swartzlander, director of operations for California Authority of Racing Fairs.

The backside barns, Swartzlander said, are stocked with about 650 thoroughbreds, Arabians, quarter horses and mules. There will be 10 races a day on weekdays and 12 on Saturdays and Sundays.

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Horse racing: Smullen upbeat for beauty contest

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Pat Smullen believes Profound Beauty has a “massive chance” of Melbourne Cup glory if the ground comes up right at Flemington next week.

The Irish raider was fifth in the big race back in 2008, but Smullen believes she can surpass that if conditions are in her favour for the “race that stops a nation”.

“There’s no getting away from the fact that if it is typical Aussie firm it will be too quick for her. We hope there is an ease. They’re having broken weather and if there are a few showers and the ground comes up nice I think we will have a massive chance.”

The hot favourite for next Tuesday’s race is dual Cox Plate winner So You Think – bidding to give the legendary Bart Cummings a 13th victory in the big race.

And Smullen admits that he’ll prove a dangerous opponent, saying: “All the quotes I’ve read from those who’ve ridden against him have been very impressive and he is clearly a very talented horse. He’s going to be hard to beat.”

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Siyouni should prove too steep a challenge for Cliffs at Royal Ascot

Siyouni looks to have slipped under the radar for his clash with Makfi and Canford Cliffs in next Tuesday’s St James’s Palace Stakes on the opening day at Royal Ascot 2010.
Christophe Lemaire’s mount can put a poor showing in the French Guineas and his rivals behind him next Tuesday
Few horses can have divided opinion as much this season as Canford Cliffs. Beaten at odds-on in the Greenham, some could not wait to write him off as a one-race wonder on the strength of that freakish display in the Coventry Stakes at Royal Ascot 12 months ago. But those who kept the faith drew encouragement from his third behind Makfi and Dick Turpin at Newmarket, and then got paid out at the Curragh three weeks later when he bolted up in the Irish Guineas.
The problem for those who want to take Ladbrokes’ best offer of 6-4 about him maintaining the winning run next week is that Makfi is surely just as capable of improving upon his Guineas form given his progressive profile and the late start he made to his career.
The winner of the Grand Critérium last year, Siyouni was defeated on his comeback when he failed to reel back his pacemaker, which seemed to dent his reputation. But he got the better of a good scrap for second with Lope de Vega who on Sunday spreadeagled his rivals in the Prix du Jockey Club. Siyouni’s trainer Alain de Royer-Dupré took this race in 1999 with the Aga’s Sendawar.
However, at 8-1, it would be wrong to overlook the claims of Siyouni, for whom Christophe Lemaire must desert Makfi on account of his retainer for the Aga Khan. Siyouni trailed home a long way back when favourite for the French Guineas on his latest start, but Lemaire essentially gave up the ghost as soon as his mount’s winning chance was extinguished by trouble in running and that sympathetic treatment may now reap dividends.
The Royal Ascot horse racing festival has seemed to start with a whimper in recent years with the crowds lowest on the first of the five days and many racegoers appearing more interested in riding the escalators and bagging a good table for the rest of the week than in concentrating on the action on the track. But if ever there was an incentive for the racing purist to take a day off and get down to Ascot next week it is the three fascinating Group One contests, each offering punters a different puzzle, that get the action under way on Tuesday.
Paco Boy was an easy winner of the Queen Anne 12 months ago, but he had nothing of the calibre of Goldikova and Rip Van Winkle in opposition and looks vulnerable now, not least having finished well held behind those rivals in previous meetings. To me, he ought to be the clear outsider of the three.
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Prince Khalid Abdullah forms strong squad for Royal Ascot

Prince Khalid Abdullah has a clear lead in the owners’ table after the Derby success of Workforce and the Saudi patron has bright prospects of advancing those gains at Royal Ascot 2010 next week.
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The back-up team is also strong. Principal Role is earmarked for the Ribblesdale Stakes, Redwood holds the Hardwicke Stakes entry while Timepiece, who finished unplaced in the Investec Oaks, is likely to drop back to a mile for the Sandringham Stakes. However, Special Duty, the dual classic winner, is expected to bypass the Coronation Stakes in favour of the Falmouth Stakes at Newmarket next month.
Nevertheless, connections believe Zacinto deserves his place in Queen Anne field. “He was not quite right after his Breeders’ Cup run and he was in an uncharacteristically bad frame of mind before the Lockinge,” Lord Grimthorpe, racing manager for Abdullah, said yesterday.
Zacinto faces a daunting assignment in the opening race of the five-day meeting when he confronts Goldikova, Rip Van Winkle and Paco Boy over the straight mile. The four-year-old chased home Rip Van Winkle in the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at Ascot in September but has since run disappointingly in the Breeders’ Cup Mile and the Lockinge Stakes won by Paco Boy last month.
Showcasing, for his part, finished strongly when conceding weight in the Duke Of York Stakes last month. “He started slightly slowly at York but he rallied well from that,” Grimthorpe said. “We were very pleased with the way he came home.”
Manifest and Showcasing approach their respective races on the back of encouraging runs last time. “Manifest is relatively untried for his age,” Grimthorpe said of the four-year-old. “As with most horses going for the Gold Cup, we don’t know whether he will stay two-and-a-half miles but the further he goes, the better he looks.”
Byword is a fascinating candidate for the Prince Of Wales’s Stakes on Wednesday. The winner of four of his seven races, he beat all bar Goldikova in the nine-furlong Prix d’Ispahan last month, when he drew ten lengths clear of the third, German Derby winner Wiener Walzer. “It was a good effort from Byword and the extra furlong at Ascot will suit him,” Grimthorpe said.
Workforce lost just 9lb in winning the Derby but connections feel that the colt must have given his all to shatter the track record. Grimthorpe said: “It was always the plan to go on to the Irish Derby, but we weren’t quite expecting to see what we saw from him at Epsom.
“He must have had a hard race, so Ireland [on June 27] might come too soon. At this stage it is more likely he will go straight to the King George, but all options remain open. We will know a lot more in a week’s time. He didn’t lose that much weight, so on the face of it, he has taken the Derby well.”
Meanwhile, Aviate, much fancied for the Oaks before finishing seventh, is to be given a short break after the daughter of Dansili failed to stay. But Abdullah, who has won three classics this season, has another live hope in Deluxe, who contests the Prix de Diane on Sunday.
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Makfi bonus for Olivier Peslier ahead of St James’s Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot

Olivier Peslier has picked up the prize ride on French colt Makfi in Tuesday’s St James’s Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot 2010.
Lemaire will be disappointed he cannot renew his partnership with Makfi, who won the 2000 Guineas at Newmarket in May so brilliantly under his guidance. He has ridden the unbeaten colt on two of his three wins.
Peslier will take over from Christophe Lemaire, who will be required to partner Siyouni for his boss the Aga Khan in the Group One race. Georges Rimaud, the Aga Khan’s racing manager, said last night: ‘Siyouni will go to the St James’s Palace and Christophe Lemaire will ride him.’
Siyouni, meanwhile, will be looking to redeem himself after disappointing as a 2-1 favourite under Lemaire in the French equivalent behind Lope De Vega.
The Andre Fabre-trained winner boosted the form with success in Sunday’s French Derby at Chantilly.
A little gloss was rubbed off the Royal Ascot Horse racing Festival yesterday when hopes that the dual 1000 Guineas winner Special Duty would run were dashed.
Criquette Head-Maarek, whose filly won the English and French Classics in the stewards’ room after passing the post in second place in both, will divert her from the Coronation Stakes to Newmarket’s Falmouth Stakes on July 7.
‘This will give her a little more time to recover after her Classic double.’
Head-Maarek said: ‘She’s looking beautiful and will now run in the Falmouth Stakes.
Luca Cumani is planning to run his globetrotting star Presvis in the Prince of Wales’s Stakes at Ascot on Wednesday.
Kingsgate Native will run in the King’s Stand but it is rival Australian raider Nicconi, favourite for the race, who has been burning up the gallops.
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John Dunlop rules Pimpernel out of Royal Ascot as he finalises plans

Elusive Pimpernel will miss both the St James’s Palace Stakes and the Irish Derby after suffering a setback.
As he finalised plans for next week’s Royal Ascot Festival, trainer John Dunlop revealed the three-year-old colt, who has not run since finishing fifth in the 2000 Guineas, is on the easy list.
Dunlop said: "Elusive Pimpernel has had a hiccup. It is not anything major but he is ruled out of the St James’s Palace Stakes and won’t be out again in the next month. It’s very disappointing but these things happen."
"Mudaaraah goes in the Ribblesdale Stakes. She was fourth in the Height of Fashion Stakes at Goodwood behind the subsequent Oaks winner, so the form looks good.
Dunlop has been training horses at Castle Stables in Arundel for almost half a century. The 70-year-old has saddled almost 3,500 winners, including 10 Classics. Keen to add to his haul of 34 Royal Ascot victories, he sends a small but highly select team to the Berkshire track.
He said: "Perfect Shot runs in the Ascot Stakes. He won the other day at Newmarket but the two-and-a-half miles is on trust. He ran well over two-and-a-quarter miles at York but even then I’m not sure he stayed it.
"In the Gold Cup we have Akmal, who won the Henry II Stakes at Sandown well last time. He hasn’t gone two-and-a-half-miles but neither have any of the others. He took his time this spring but he is in good shape and one would be hopeful."
Dunlop relies on Waseet in the 1m 4f King Edward VII Stakes on Friday week. He said: "The track and trip will suit him. He ran well when second in the Royal Lodge at Ascot last season."
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Horse racing: GIVEN LOOKS TO ASCOT FOR DAN THE MAN

Dandino will head to Royal Ascot in search of a four-timer after rattling off the hat-trick in impressive fashion at Epsom on Derby Day.
James Given kept it low-key with his colt in previous starts, sending him to Redcar and Doncaster, but took on some smart three-year-olds in the Investec Vincent O’Brien Handicap.
Owned by the Elite Racing Club, Dandino (17-2) showed a striking turn of foot under Paul Mulrennan to settle the race very quickly.
"It has been such a frustrating couple of weeks as we have had a 30% runners to place ratio, but they have been running well without winning and to come off the cold list in that way is very pleasing," said Given.
"Paul rode with lots of confidence and he has done it in a tremendous manner.
"We will step up to a mile and a half now for the King George V Handicap at Royal Ascot 2010."
Godolphin look to have discovered a useful older filly with German recruit Antara making a winning debut for Sheikh Mohammed’s operation in the Princess Elizabeth Stakes.
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Trainer Saeed bin Suroor said: "If she comes out of this OK she could possibly go to Royal Ascot 2010, where the Windsor Forest would be the obvious race."
Hardened Irish two-year-old High Award (7-1) took advantage of the slow early pace to dominate the Investec Woodcote Stakes under Johnny Murtagh.
"We worked him hard to win first time out, but I suppose we’ve been easy on him the last couple of times and those have put him right for today.
"He had plenty of experience and handled the track well," said Fozzy Stack, son and assistant to trainer Tommy.
Stuart Williams’ bottom-weight Bertoliver was third at the course in April but went off at 33-1 as he blitzed down the stands rail in the Investec Entrepreneurial Class ‘Dash’.
"We’ll think about Ascot now, where we have the Coventry, Norfolk and Windsor Castle as options."
It was a fine moment for winning jockey Jack Mitchell, son of local trainer Philip.
"He has been a disappointing horse since he won so well at Lingfield last year," said the Newmarket baronet.
Sir Mark Prescott’s continued his ridiculously hot form as Fortuni (9-1) turned the Investec Surefooted Challenge into a procession.
"I didn’t think he ran very well at York last time so we decided to change the tactics, make the running, and it worked."
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Horse racing: Lord Shanakill will feed Royal appetite at Haydock

HAYDOCK has shown itself to still be among the premier tracks in the country over the last week. Flat racing fans naturally look forward to next week’s Investec Derby meeting and the forthcoming five-day extravaganza at Royal Ascot.
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The fayre on offer at the Merseyside track last Saturday has whetted the appetite. This afternoon’s card is another of high quality.
Kingsgate Native booked his return to the Royal meeting with a classy display in last Saturday’s big race, the betfred.com Temple Stakes. Sir Michael Stoute’s sprinter may have been a failure at stud but the decision to send him back to the track has already provided some consolation.
The Temple was officially a Group Two, but with half the field having scored at the top level it was of the highest quality. The first five homes – Kingsgate Native, Equiano, Borderlescott, Spin Cycle and Total Gallery are sure to be involved at the business end of all this summer’s big sprints.
Stoute, who bids for a fifth Investec Derby win with Dante Stakes second Workforce next week, is eyeing a second big success at Haydock today.
The Timeform Jury Stakes better known as the John of Gaunt Stakes is a Group Three with another high-class field.
Stoute sends last year’s winner Main Aim in search of a repeat in the seven furlong contest. The five-year-old will improve on his seasonal return when third at York and step back up to seven furlongs should see him go close again. But among a competitive nine-runner line-up Henry Cecil’s Group One winner Lord Shanakill rates the one to beat.
A superb second to Paco Boy in the Group One Lockinge Stakes at Newbury on his seasonal return, this drop back to seven furlongs should be fine and he too will have Ascot on his agenda.
Other Haydock winners last week Balducci, Awsaal and Novellen Lad are expected to head to Berkshire next month. And today’s opening race, the sports360.co.uk Achilles Stakes could also provide Royal pointers.
Warrington jockey Paul Hanagan highlighted the claims of Rose Blossom in his ECHO column on Thursday. On her latest win in a conditions event at York the Richard Fahey-trained three-year-old filly looks the most likely winner of the listed sprint.
But Willie Haggas will be hoping for a bold show from High Standing ahead of a tilt at the Golden Jubilee Stakes over a furlong further than today’s contest.
Some of the Newmarket’s trainer’s big hopes for the season – Penitent in the Lincoln and Triple Aspect at Windsor on Monday – have shown his charges can make a winning return. But last year’s Wokingham hero is sure to improve on whatever he does today as the five-year-old bids to continue his climb up the sprinting ladder.
Haggas said: “He’s fine, he just needs to have a race before Royal Ascot 2010.
Others to note are course and distance winner Barshiba in the EBF Joan Westbrook Pinnacle Stakes and Andrew Balding’s Fireback in the finale.
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