PICK-SIX FIX FALLOUT LINGERS.Byline: KEVIN MODESTI 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 ARCADIA - The case might be closed in the 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. pick-six fix. But the wound is open. Though authorities brought the scam to light the day after the Oct. 26 Breeders' Cup and secured guilty pleas from the three-man fraud squad Police Fraud Squad City of London Police The largest Fraud squad is run by the City of London Police who are responsible for policing London's and the UK's main financial hub. in December, they have yet to pay the rightful winners the $3 million they are owed. That's like throwing the mugger mugger: see crocodile. in the paddy wagon and driving away, leaving the victim bleeding in the alley. ``It's literally priority No. 1 for 2003,'' Chip Tuttle of the National Thoroughbred Racing Association The National Thoroughbred Racing Association (NTRA) is the main governing body of Thoroughbred horse racing in the United States. They are also the main governing body of the Breeders' Cup World Championships. , said Thursday. Tuttle said NTRA NTRA National Thoroughbred Racing Association NTRA National Telecommunication Regulatory Authority (Egypt) NTRA National Training Reform Agenda NTRA Nano Technology Research Association (Korea) and Breeders' Cup officials hope a plan to distribute the money can be announced as early as next week. But for now it is tied up in red tape. Fans can hardly be expected to forget about the scandal until everybody gets what he deserves, both the perpetrators - set for sentencing in February - and the honest victims. In question is $3.1 million in payoffs withheld from Derrick Davis, the Maryland man found to have placed $1,152 in after-the-fact wagers on the Breeders' Cup pick-six through Chris Harn, a 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 brother working with bet-processing company computers. Davis' betting tickets were the only ones that named all six winning horses in the sequence on Breeders' Cup day at Arlington Park Arlington Park is a horse race track in the Chicago suburb of Arlington Heights, Illinois. Horse racing in the Chicago region has been a popular sport since the early days of the city in the 1830s, and at one time Chicago had more horse racing tracks (six) than any other major in Illinois, which included 26-1 Domedriver in the Mile, 13-1 Starine in the Filly & Mare Turf and 43-1 Volponi in the Classic. Davis, Harn and another bettor, Glen DaSilva, have pleaded guilty in 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 state in connection with the Breeders' Cup and related scams. Since the three can no longer lay claim to the money, you'd assume it now could be paid to the holders of 78 tickets that named five of the six winning horses. Those people should collect about $43,000 apiece. They got only $4,606.20 of that Oct. 26. Fortunately, though the fans with five out of six no longer have their betting tickets, they can be identified because they had to fill out tax forms to collect the $4,606.20. Unfortunately, their money has been declared ``criminal proceeds'' and frozen by order of a federal judge in White Plains, N.Y., and put under the control of the federal attorney's office for the southern district of New York, as if it were a stolen car. Racing officials hope they won't have to wait until sentences are handed down before the U.S. attorney frees the money and Arlington Park and the Illinois Racing Board can pay it out. ``It's complicated, and we understand the frustration of the people who held tickets with five out of six and are the rightful winners of this money,'' Tuttle said. ``NTRA and the Breeders' Cup are doing everything in their power, working with Arlington and the appropriate regulatory bodies, to get this money to the people who have been waiting patiently for it. ``We just wish we could make it happen faster. ... State agencies move at a different pace than thoroughbred racehorses.'' Apparently, the NTRA and Breeders' Cup promoters never have considered paying the $3.1 million themselves, knowing they'll eventually get the money back from its legal limbo. They're afraid an action that simple would meet resistance from the various judicial and racing jurisdictions that have complicated the situation in the first place. --Trend watch: For bettors who pay attention to which running styles fare best at different distances, the first two full weeks of the Santa Anita Santa Anita may refer to:
Front-runners went on to win 37 percent of the races at sprint distances up to 6 1/2 furlongs on the main track. But they held onto the lead only 17 percent of the time in longer races. And pacesetters stayed in front only 5 percent of the time in races on the turf course. In the main-track sprints, horses starting from the inside post positions have done poorly, recording only five victories from post 1, 2 and 3 from 135 starters. Expect a horse who started from the inside in his last race to improve if he moves to the outside. An example is Ghost Memo, who came out of post 3 in a 6-furlong race Jan. 2, was impeded early and finished sixth, but came out of post 8 in a 7-furlong race on Thursday, had a clear trip and won at 7-2 odds. --The winner is ...: Edgar Prado Edgar S. Prado (born June 12, 1967 in Lima, Peru) is a thoroughbred horse racing jockey. Now a resident of Hollywood, Florida in 2004 Prado became the 19th jockey in thoroughbred racing history to win 5,000 races. has been named the winner of the George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award The George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award has been presented by Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California annually since 1950 to the thoroughbred horse racing jockey in North America who demonstrates high standards of personal and professional conduct, on and off the racetrack. , which will be presented for the 54th time by Santa Anita in a ceremony this season. The honor is voted on by the nation's jockeys in recognition of on- and off-the-track qualities. ``I achieved a lot of things, and winning this award kind of caps it,'' said Prado, who rides mainly on the East Coast. A 35-year-old native of Lima, Peru, Prado has won 4,693 races, most memorably the 2002 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). with 70-1 Sarava. He won 1,000 races in a two-year span (1997-98), something that only Chris McCarron and Kent Desormeaux had done. The Woolf Award is named for the one-time Seabiscuit jockey who died in an accident at Santa Anita in 1946. CAPTION(S): box Box: OUT OF THE GATE - Kevin Modesti |
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