BELMONT STAKES NOTEBOOK: NO LICENSE SPELLS DOOM.Byline: Kevin Modesti Daily News Staff Writer In a comic warmup to the Belmont Stakes Belmont Stakes Oldest of the three U.S. horse races that constitute the Triple Crown. The Belmont originated in 1867 and is named after August Belmont (see Belmont family). The stakes is held in early June at Belmont Park, near Garden City, Long Island; the course is 1.5 mi (2,400 m). drama, Hot Wells, one of the long shots, had to be scratched on Saturday morning because the owner didn't apply for a state racing license. Of all people, the owner, Michael Lasky of Maryland, should have known there would be trouble. He's the founder and operator of the Psychic Friends Network The Psychic Friends Network was a telephone psychic service operating in the United States in the 1990s. Founded in 1990 by Baltimore businessman Mike Laskey, and it is probably best known for its talk show-like, late night infomercials hosted by singer Dionne Warwick and psychic . Even if he had filed a last-minute application, Lasky could have expected little help from New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of officials. The last time he applied here, in 1982, he was turned down. The hitch 16 years ago was that Lasky ran racing and sports handicapping that promised ``inside information.'' The New York State Racing and Wagering Board decided that licensing him ``would not be in the best interest of racing,'' said Michael J. Hoblock Jr., the board's current chairman. Lasky said he is no longer in the tout business. Hoblock said Lasky holds licenses in Maryland, Kentucky and Arkansas, claimed to be licensed in 47 states, and ``was reminded there were not 47 other states with racing.'' New York officials phoned Lasky Friday but got no assurance that he would apply, Hoblock said. When the 10 a.m. scratch time passed, Hot Wells was scratched. Hoblock said Hot Wells' entry was accepted Thursday because the owner was listed as ``So What's Nu Stable,'' and only after Belmont Park Noun 1. Belmont Park - a racetrack for thoroughbred racing in Elmont on Long Island; site of the Belmont Stakes Belmont Elmont - a town on Long Island in New York; site of Belmont Park officials found no record of the stable, and after a New York Post The New York Post is the 13th-oldest newspaper published in the United States and the oldest to have been published continually as a daily.[3] Since 1976, it has been owned by Australian-born billionaire Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation and is one of the 10 article reported it was Lasky, did a flag go up. ``I don't think the fact it's the Belmont Stakes means we should lower our level of integrity,'' Hoblock said. Hot Wells was fourth in the Arkansas Derby and the Preakness. This was to be the first Belmont for jockey Calvin Borel and trainer Tom Amoss. Painful scratch: The colic colic, intense pain caused by spasmodic contractions of one of the hollow organs, e.g., the stomach, intestine, gall bladder, ureter, or oviduct. The cause of colic is irritation and/or obstruction, and the irritant and/or obstruction may be a stone (as in the gall that forced Hanuman Hanuman Monkey god of Hindu mythology, a central figure in the Ramayana. He was a guardian spirit, the offspring of a nymph and the wind god. His great heroic exploit was recovering Rama's wife, Sita, from captivity by the demon Ravana. Highway to be withdrawn from the Belmont early Saturday morning was not considered life-threatening. Trainer Kathy Walsh said the condition seemed to have been brought on by nerves. Symptoms, which showed up overnight, included sweating and pawing the ground. ``I got a call at about 3:30 (Saturday) morning and I came right down here,'' the California-based Walsh said at Belmont, where the gelding gelding castrated male horse. was being treated with painkillers. ``Everybody's so upset, but it seems like he'll be all right. . . . We'll just keep a close eye on him. Colic can be very temporary, or it can be very serious.'' Hanuman Highway, who began the season at Santa Anita and finished seventh in the Kentucky Derby, would have been a Belmont long shot. The scratches reduced the field to 11 horses. The crowd: The only Belmont to draw a crowd bigger than Saturday's 80,167 was the 1971 edition, in which 82,694 watched Canonero II's unsuccessful try for a Triple Crown. The undercard un·der·card n. The event or events coming before and supporting the main event, as of boxing matches. : In other stakes races on a first-rate Belmont Park card, Coronado's Quest won the Riva Ridge sprint for 3-year-olds, Chief Bearhart won the Manhattan Handicap on turf and Richter Scale won the True North sprint. |
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