HORSE RACING NOTEBOOK: TELEPHONE WAGERING DELAYED UNTIL FEBRUARY.Byline: Daily News Staff and Wire Services 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 fans who looked forward to the scheduled start of legal betting by telephone on Jan. 1 will have their patience tested. Although so-called account wagering moved closer to reality in a California Horse Racing Board meeting last week, the regulations must clear one more administrative procedure and applications must be approved for the program's operators. The CHRB CHRB California Horse Racing Board CHRB Community Housing Resource Board (Montana) CHRB Commonwealth Health Research Board expected a review by the Office of Administrative Law administrative law, law governing the powers and processes of administrative agencies. The term is sometimes used also of law (i.e., rules, regulations) developed by agencies in the course of their operation. to take 30 days. The CHRB cannot approve applications until its next scheduled meeting Jan. 24 in Arcadia. Thus it appears it will be at least February before phone betting goes into effect. Phone betting was signed into law by Gov. Gray Davis in August. Davis had vetoed a similar bill in 2000. The horse racing industry has high hopes for an increase in wagering, because fans no longer will have to travel to a track or other facility in order to gamble. But skeptics argue the convenience of wagering from a home or office will do nothing to create new fans. It is feared that competing business interests will complicate the process of setting up a fan-friendly system. CHRB chairman Alan Landsburg issued what sounded like a warning to all concerned. ``This is not the salvation of racing. This is simply a step along the way,'' Landsburg said at the board's Nov. 30 meeting in Davis. ``If business greed begins to raise its ugly head and threatens the good that this program can bring to the industry, that greed will not be greeted with a friendly shake from this commissioner.'' --Four-legged billboards? The CHRB adopted a new regulation permitting advertising to appear on jockeys' clothes, owners' silks and track saddlecloths. An earlier regulation, which had prohibited the advertising of certain products ``detrimental'' to horse racing, was rejected by legal authorities. --Frankel again? Bobby Frankel, the nation's leading stakes trainer, plans to run Euchre euchre (y  `kər), card game, played usually by four persons (two sets of partners). The game originated among the Amish and was a popular card game in America in the late 19th cent. for the first time in five months in the Native Diver Handicap at Hollywood Park Hollywood Park may be several places:
Euchre, a 5-year-old gelding gelding castrated male horse. , had foot problems after winning the Prairie Meadows Cornhusker corn·husk·ing n. 1. The husking of corn. 2. A social gathering for husking corn. Also called husking bee. corn Handicap in Iowa on July 7. He and jockey Garrett Gomez received a race-high weight assignment for the Native Diver, which is expected to draw eight horses: Euchre, 121 pounds; Grey Memo, 118; Penamacor, 115; Last Parade, 113; Momentum, 113; Spicy Stuff, 113; Madraar, 112, and Pie N Burger, 112. The Grade III, $100,000 Native Diver, a 1 1/8-mile race on the main track, boasts well-known winners in the past decade, including Twilight Agenda, Sir Beaufort, Slew of Damascus, Best Pal Best Pal (born February 12, 1988 in Ramona, California - died November 24, 1998 in Ramona, California) was a champion racehorse, who to this day holds the record for purses of any California-bred racehorse, earning his owners, the Golden Eagle Farm, US$5. , Alphabet Soup, Gentlemen, Puerto Madero Puerto Madero is a neighborhood, or barrio, of the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires, which occupies a significant portion of the Río de la Plata riverbank. History In the 1930s, port facilities were relocated to Puerto Nuevo and General Challenge. The Hollywood Park autumn meet continues through Dec. 17. OUT OF THE GATE HOLLYWOOD PARK STANDINGS Through Wednesday Jockeys Wins Alex Solis Alex O. Solis (born March 25, 1964 in Panama City, Panama) is a jockey based in the United States. He currently lives in Glendora, California and rides predominantly in Southern California. He first gained national prominence when he won the 1986 Preakness Stakes with Snow Chief. 20 Laffit Pincay 17 Kent Desormeaux Kent J. Desormeaux (born February 27, 1970, in Maurice, Vermilion Parish, Louisiana) is an American thoroughbred horse racing Hall of Fame jockey who holds the U.S. record for most races won in a single year. 15 Tyler Baze 14 David Flores Flores, town, Guatemala Flores (flōrəs), town (1990 est. pop. 2,200), capital of Petén department, N Guatemala. Flores was built on an island in the southern part of Lake Petén Itzá and on the site of the 12 Corey Nakatani 10 Trainers Wins Bob Baffert 15 Bobby Frankel 7 Doug O'Neill 7 Bill Spawr 7 Dan Hendricks 6 THE STAKES SCHEDULE Hollywood Park Saturday --$70,000 Waya Handicap, 3-year-olds and up, fillies and mares, 1 1/2 miles on turf Sunday --$100,000 Native Diver Handicap, 3-year-olds and up, 1 1/8 miles PINCAY WATCH Laffit Pincay's 217 victories (at the start of the racing week) in 2001 mark the 24th time he has had 200 or more in a season. That matches Bill Shoemaker's number of 200-plus years. Pincay's record career-wins total is up to 9,268. A WEEK AT THE RACES At The Races is a British television channel, originally co-founded with Channel 4, but now owned by a partnership between British Sky Broadcasting, Arena Leisure PLC and 28 (out of the 59) UK racecourses. Arlington Park near Chicago was named the site of the Oct. 26, 2002 Breeders' Cup races, confirming organizers' long-expressed intention. Santa Anita is expected to play host to the 2003 Breeders' Cup. ... Breeders' Cup Mile winner Val Royal won't run in the Dec. 16 Hong Kong Cup The Hong Kong Cup is a Group 1 flat horse race in Hong Kong for three-year-old and above thoroughbreds run over a distance of 2,000 metres (approximately 1 mile 2 furlongs) at Sha Tin Racecourse in mid December. because of a minor injury. Val Royal was scratched from the Nov. 24 Citation Handicap at Hollywood Park because of the wet course. ... Breeding a mare to 2000 Horse of the Year Tiznow will cost $30,000 in the recently retired colt's first year at stud, WinStar Farm announced in Kentucky. ... John Mabee, 80, will step down as chairman of the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club at the end of the year. Mabee led Del Mar for more than 20 years and had a big role in the facility's $80 million rebuilding in the early 1990s. ... David Lopez, a riding champion in Peru, recorded his first California victory with Blond Del last Saturday. Lopez, 20, competed at Calder and Delaware Park before coming west. ... Keemoon will try to become the first two-time winner of the Waya Handicap when the turf race for fillies and mares is run for the eighth time Saturday at Hollywood Park. ... Jockey Gary Stevens will switch agents, from Tony Matos to Brian Beach, at the start of the Santa Anita meeting Dec. 26. Matos will continue to book mounts for Victor Espinoza. ... Espinoza is scheduled to return Wednesday after a week with relatives in Mexico. ... Jockey Eddie Delahoussaye also is due back Wednesday after taking a week off to celebrate his father's 80th birthday in Louisiana. - Kevin Modesti CAPTION(S): box Box: OUT OF THE GATE (see text) |
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