January, 2021 | Horse Racing Free Tips

Churchill Rebranding BetAmerica Sportsbook And iGaming Under TwinSpires

Churchill Downs Incorporated (“CDI” or “Company”) (Nasdaq: CHDN) announced today it will move to a single brand strategy for its online wagering segment by rebranding the Company's sportsbook and iGaming platform as TwinSpires.

The brand transition from BetAmerica to TwinSpires will begin with CDI's online sportsbook and iGaming launch in Michigan later this month, pending final regulatory approval. BetAmerica retail and online sportsbooks operating in Colorado, Indiana, Michigan, Mississippi, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania will also transition to the TwinSpires brand during the first half of this year.

The TwinSpires brand has been utilized by CDI's online pari-mutuel wagering business since 2007. TwinSpires is widely recognized within the online betting world for its access to premier world-wide horse racing content, nearly 150 years of wagering history for handicapping races and unique customer experiences at the Kentucky Derby. TwinSpires players will continue to enjoy the same internally-developed, industry-leading technology platform for horse racing wagering and exceptional customer service to which they've become accustomed. For online sports betting and iGaming, customers will experience a new technology platform powered by GAN Limited and Kambi Group PLC.

“Our TwinSpires brand has consistently delivered over 13 years and is associated with more than a century of wagering experience. That history and heritage offers a unique point of difference in a competitive space,” said Bill Mudd, President and Chief Operating Officer of CDI. “We remain focused on building a profitable sports betting and iGaming business that provides our customers with an integrated experience alongside our horse racing wagering platform. The transition to TwinSpires not only generates marketing efficiencies, but also allows us to deliver a more complete overall experience to our growing online wagering customer base.”

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Cambre Retired To Arohra Farms In Ohio

Arohra Farms in North Lawrence, Ohio has announced that Cambre (Arch – Mourette, by Smart Strike) will enter stud in 2021. Cambre raced for owner Imagine Stables and trainer Kelsey Danner.

Cambre broke his maiden in his third career start in a maiden special weight at Tampa Bay Downs in a two-turn route race on the grass. He showed enough promise to later become a stakes-performer, finishing behind the likes of Standard Deviation (multiple graded stakes placed by Curlin) and Grade 3 winner Solidify (by Tapizar).

Cambre is out of Mourette (by Smart Strike), the multiple stakes placed producer of Sir Anthony (by Mineshaft), a multiple graded stakes winner of over $400,000 in career earnings, including wins in the G3 Prairie Meadows Cornhusker Handicap and the G3 Harlan's Holiday Stakes as an Illinois-bred. Sir Anthony still races in 2020 for his breeder/owner, Richard Otto.

Cambre's 2nd dam is Amourette, herself a multiple-stakes winner and black-type producer of two stakes-performers (in addition to Mourette).

Cambre will stand for special considerations in Ohio, and prospective breeders are asked to contact Arohra Farms for details.

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Cheveley Park Stud Owner/Breeder Thompson Dies At 84

David Thompson, owner of Cheveley Park Stud in Newmarket, England, has died due to renal failure at the age of 84, according to The Blood-Horse.

Cheveley Park Stud has been home to multiple influential stallions since Thompson purchased the property in 1975. The most notable was Pivotal, winner of the Group 1 Nunthorpe Stakes and sire of 150 black type winners, who is still breeding today.

Thompson also found success on the track with Russian Rhythm, Echelon, Red Bloom, Integral, and 2016 Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf winner, Queen's Trust, to name a few.

“David Thompson was a very generous, meticulous, sometimes unpredictable man, who always had a certain charm,” said Chris Richardson, the stud's managing director. “He inspired everyone with his insatiable enthusiasm for business which, thankfully, included a love of racing and breeding, alongside his wife, Patricia, and their family.”

Hello Broadway Moves To Flowing Acres Farm In West Virginia

Flowing Acres farm at Fleetwood Lane is proud to announce the acquisition and relocation of Hello Broadway from the state of Florida, where he stood for several years with longtime veteran breeder and trainer Monte Thomas and his wife Cathy at Ups and Downs Farm before his passing in the fall of 2019.

Hello Broadway is the son of world-class sire Broken Vow and out of Nightstorm (Storm Cat). This world-class mare is also the dam of 2007 Grade 1 Wood Memorial winner Nobiz Like Shobiz.

As a 2-year-old, he finished second in the G3 Nashua Stakes. At three, he finished second in the G2 Hutcheson Stakes before injury cut his career short. At the time, his trainer Barclay Tagg was quoted as saying Hello Broadway was the best horse he's ever trained.

Until last year, Hello Broadway had been serviced as a private stallion for the Ups and Downs Farm broodmare band. He has had only 30 foals total, but with a remarkable $1.5 million in earnings to date.

New owner Michael Ingrassia said, “If we can get Hello Broadway to a commercial level here in the up-and-coming West Virginia breeding program, it's clear to us that his offspring have shown they can really run. It's not every day you can bring this kind of fire power from Unbridled/Storm Cat line to West Virginia.

Hello Broadway will join Lord of Greatness, the only son of champion stallion Greatness (by Mr. Prospector) standing at stud in North America, who is in his second season in the West Virginia stallion program.

Lord of Greatness has two brothers that are track record holders at Charles Town, in Immortal Eyes and Good Lord, both holding records for almost a decade.

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