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January 2008 - Posts

• Q&A 1/30/08
  Jan 30 2008, 02:03 PM

  One idea that keeps coming up, and that we'll think about again for next year, is allowing one "double up" bet each day of the NHC... Read More... Post Reactions

• NHC Day 2
  Jan 27 2008, 02:29 AM

  LAS VEGAS -- The phone rings in my room at the Red Rock here Saturday morning just after 9 a.m., and the unfamiliar voice on the other end of the line is polite, apologetic and filled with despair. Read More... Post Reactions

• NHC Day 1
  Jan 26 2008, 12:35 AM

  A midmorning fire on the roof of the Monte Carlo hotel-casino forced guests and gamblers to flee and sent flaming embers raining down... Read More... Post Reactions

• Vegas, Reinvented Again
  Jan 23 2008, 06:04 PM

  LAS VEGAS --As more and more Americans don't have to stray far from home to drop their money into slot machines, Las Vegas keeps reinventing... Read More... Post Reactions

• An Early Evening
  Jan 22 2008, 01:26 AM

  BEVERLY HILLS -- There were two small surprises at tonight's Eclipse Awards dinner, neither involving the results of the 17 races for trophies, all of which went to... Read More... Post Reactions

• Gone West
  Jan 20 2008, 11:48 PM

  BEVERLY (Hills, that is), Cal. -- Good thing that Santa Anita has an early noon post time Monday, or else there could have been a... Read More... Post Reactions

• Q&A 1/18/08
  Jan 18 2008, 12:45 PM

  steve_t says: Now I know how Christopher Columbus felt when he broached the idea that the world was round, or Galileo who was almost executed... Read More... Post Reactions

• Broken Records
  Jan 15 2008, 02:22 PM

  The next time someone writes a book about making speed figures, last weekend's racing at Santa Anita could be Exhibit A of how raw time... Read More... Post Reactions

• Saturday Sniffles
  Jan 12 2008, 02:13 PM

  I probably shouldn't be operating heavy machinery like multirace bets today, given that I'm sniffling my way through a Benadryl haze and a sea of... Read More... Post Reactions

• Q&A 1/11/08
  Jan 11 2008, 12:34 AM

  bob_mcgeehan says: Do you think that after the official approval at NYRA, whenever that is, that there will be some consideration to adding more superfectas... Read More... Post Reactions

• Mardi Gras Chiens
  Jan 08 2008, 01:25 PM

  The logo for the Mardi Gras Race Track and Gaming Center, formerly known as Hollywood Dog Track, is a pair of green and gold masks... Read More... Post Reactions

• Wet Saturday
  Jan 06 2008, 01:30 PM

  Santa Anita wasn't the only track where the weekend racing was compromised by rainfall. I arrived at Gulfstream just before noon Saturday and was shocked to see... Read More... Post Reactions

• Airborne Six
  Jan 05 2008, 03:42 AM

  When I booked yesterday's 1:15 p.m. flight to Ft. Lauderdale last month, I obviously didn't realize that this would put me in the air for... Read More... Post Reactions

• Phew
  Jan 02 2008, 03:46 PM

  We finally get a bicoastal breather today on Jan. 2, the first day since Christmas that both Aqueduct and Santa Anita have both been closed, and a brief but welcome respite before both reopen Thursday, when it's also Opening Day at Gulfstream Park... Post Reactions