BREEDERS' CUP WRAP-UP: PERFECT IN EVERY WAY BREEDERS' CUP HAD IT ALL: PICK-SIX WINNER, GOOD RACES.Byline: Kevin Modesti Staff Writer ARCADIA - Either a very good handicapper hand·i·cap·per n. Sports & Games 1. One who assigns handicaps. 2. One who predicts the winners in a horserace, especially one who publishes such predictions as a guide for bettors. Noun 1. or very lucky, a man walked into an off-track-betting facility in Rapid City, S.D., before Saturday's Breeders' Cup The Breeders' Cup World Championships is an annual series of Grade I thoroughbred horse races operated by Breeders' Cup Limited, a company formed in 1982 by a consortium of North American racing organizations, led by the National Thoroughbred Racing Association. at Santa Anita Santa Anita may refer to:
A nation of horseplayers just said, ``Yeah, sure.'' Mindful of skepticism fueled by the 2002 pick-six fix, Breeders' Cup executives said Sunday this year's lone perfect ticket is valid. The ticket-seller and tote reports verified the purchase. A new computer security system showed no alterations. A California Horse Racing horse racing, trials of speed involving two or more horses. It includes races among harnessed horses with one of two particular gaits, among saddled Thoroughbreds (or, less frequently, quarterhorses) on a flat track, or among saddled horses over a turf course with Board auditor authenticated the wager. All that remained Sunday evening was for the South Dakota South Dakota (dəkō`tə), state in the N central United States. It is bordered by North Dakota (N), Minnesota and Iowa (E), Nebraska (S), and Wyoming and Montana (W). man - who apparently is known to the OTB OTB abbr. off-track betting OTB n abbr (US) (= off-track betting) → apuestas hechas fuera del hipódromo OTB n abbr (US) (= off-track betting staff but didn't want to be identified yet - to present the ticket and collect a payoff that would be the second-largest in U.S. racing history behind the $3,058,138.60 of the 1999 Breeders' Cup pick-six. ``This is going to be a good story,'' said Ken Kirchner, the National Thoroughbred Racing Association's senior vice president of product development. Last year, three former Drexel University Drexel University, at Philadelphia, Pa.; coeducational; founded 1891 by Anthony J. Drexel, opened 1892, chartered 1894 as Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry. It was renamed Drexel Institute of Technology in 1936 and gained university status in 1970. fraternity brothers, one of whom worked for a tote company, changed pick-six wagers in the computers after some of the Breeders' Cup races had been run, and wound up with six implausibly perfect tickets that would have been worth more than $3 million had they not been caught. The three are serving prison sentences. The scandal prompted security enhancements. Kirchner said the mystery man's $8 ticket - four $2 combinations - ``singled'' winners Six Perfections Six Perfections may refer to:
High Chaparral is a racehorse, winner of the Epsom Derby in 2002, and the winner of the Breeders' Cup Turf in 2002 and 2003 (dead-heating in the latter). in the Turf and Pleasantly Perfect in the Classic. The ticket covered winner Cajun Beat and sixth-place Aldebaran in the Sprint, and winner Action This Day and fourth-place Tiger Hunt in the Juvenile. There were 48 tickets that named five of the six winners. Each is worth $18,663. The pool was $4,489,454. As for the Breeders' Cup's other big winners: Richard Mandella celebrated his event-record four victories Saturday with dinner in Santa Monica and what a horse trainer would consider a late bedtime at home in Bradbury. Alex Solis was recognized Sunday for his Johar-Pleasantly Perfect riding double with the event's inaugural Bill Shoemaker Award. Mandella went to bed at 10 p.m. He woke up at 2 a.m. Then, he said Sunday, he lay awake thinking until it was time to get up at 4 and go to work at his Santa Anita barn. ``I was re-running the races (in his head),'' Mandella said of the victories by Halfbridled, Action This Day, Johar and Pleasantly Perfect. Racing fans hoping the Breeders' Cup will come to the state more frequently had to be encouraged to see the main track play fair with pace-setters and stretch-runners, the firm turf course and 90-degrees-plus weather prove no obstacle to good European horses, the eight races come off without a serious injury, and wagering totals set new highs for the 20-year-old event. ``It was a great day for California,'' NTRA NTRA National Thoroughbred Racing Association NTRA National Telecommunication Regulatory Authority (Egypt) NTRA National Training Reform Agenda NTRA Nano Technology Research Association (Korea) commissioner Tim Smith said Sunday morning. ``If I was on the bid committee at Del Mar, I couldn't have scripted it any better.'' Exploratory meetings regarding the 2007 and 2008 Breeders' Cups have been held with representatives of Del Mar and New Jersey's Monmouth Park, each of which seeks to be a first-time host. Kevin Modesti, (818) 713-3616 kevin.modesti(at)dailynews.com |
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