Betting on a racetrack
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Steven Roth, the tough, entrepreneurial chief executive of giant Vornado Realty Trust , has his sights set on Boston's Suffolk Downs. And it is a better bet than any you could place at the struggling track that the opportunity he sees is not in a bunch of old men shouting at a TV screen and betting two bucks on a ...
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When Pleasantly Perfect won the Breeders&#39; Cup World Thoroughbred Championship Classic last year, he didn&#39;t have to go very far - the event was held at his home track in Santa Anita.
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By Jim Pedley, The Kansas City Star, Mo.  Feb. 18--DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- You hear the phrase "we play to win," like, every 40 seconds around a racetrack.   But when the phrase was used in the Daytona International Speedway infield a couple of days ago, people took notice.
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Four major races will be held tomorrow as earnest preparation begins for the Breeders' Cup at Lone Star Oct. 30. Belmont Park will host the $300,000 Matron for 2-year-old fillies, at 1 mile, the $300,000 Futurity, for 2-year-old colts, also at a mile, and the $300,000 Ruffian Handicap for fillies and mares at a mile and one-16th. Woodbine will hold ...
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Digital technology has now replaced the old photo-finish cameras at Britain&#39;s racecourses, but still there are times when even a computer cannot help.
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It is final tuneup time for quite a few horses on the road to the Breedersâ Cup at Monmouth Park on Oct. 27. The Haskell Invitational winner Any Given Saturday tops a field of five in todayâs Brooklyn Handicap, while Grasshopper, the Travers Stakes runner-up, is the favorite in a 10-horse field for the Super Derby at Louisiana Downs. Also, Octave takes on seven rivals in the Fitz Dixon Cotillion at Philadelphia Park as she continues her run to the $2 million Breedersâ Cup Distaff. Overshadowed by her stablemate Rags to Riches (out for the year with an injury), Octave won the Mother Goose and the Coaching Club American Oaks before finishing third in the Alabama in her previous race.
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Betting fans in Britain have laid down a record multi-million wager on the US presidential election, which bookies say is looking harder to call as November 2 draws near.
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Business & money: Betting shops are opening everywhere on the hight street. One man is trying to halt the tide to protect the vulnerable
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With Indian gambling poised to expand, state seeks its share of the winnings.
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Racing&#39;s greatest card of the year has arrived with today&#39;s 21st Breeders&#39; Cup â-ight championship races where the smallest field has eight horses and where classic winners might go off at double-digit odds.
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SACRAMENTO, California -- As reported by the San Diego Union-Tribune: &quot;...The state&#39;s big horse racetracks and card clubs will launch their big push today for an initiative that could give them slot machines with a $3 million-a-week television buy for a
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Horseplayers have been caught in the crossfire of a battle over the economics of wagering on the Internet, a problemÃÂ manifestedÃÂ during the Kentucky Derby.
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Bookmakers make Scotland odds-on for a white Christmas after a flurry of betting across their counters.
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Mexican tourism promoters are gambling that the scream of engines can rival the lure of the beach. On Monday, they announced that a new $70 million racetrack near Mexico&#39;s Caribbean
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A quarter of a billion dollars to build the track. Tens of millions in racing fees. More than 150,000 live spectators and a television audience of hundreds of millions.
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The future looked a little brighter for Suffolk Downs racetrack yesterday, when a proposal to buy a majority interest (approximately 40 percent) by New York businessman Richard Fields was presented to the Massachusetts State Racing Commission for approval.
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IRELANDâS online bookmakers are lining up to grab a share of the $73 billion (â¬56.3 billion) American gambling market following a landmark ruling by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) last week that US legislation prohibiting gambling over the