July, 2021 | Horse Racing Free Tips

How to Throw a Strip Poker Game

One of the most important things to do is to ensure there is plenty of alcohol at all times, the middle of a strip poker game is no time to have to go on a beer run. When purchasing alcohol try to remember to bet more then just beer. Many girls do not like to drink beer; they may prefer tastier cocktails like a daiquiri or red bull and Vodka.

When choosing the people you are going to invite to your game take some time to think this thru. The last thing you may want to do is to invite an immature friend who is going to be screaming and making a jerk out of him self. Another thing you do not want is a girl who spends all her time in Online poker rooms, because they may be better then you and who wants that.

When choosing the girls you are going to invite, remember you are hopefully going to see them naked. Do not invite any girls you would not want to see nude. If one of the girls insists on bringing her unattractive friend and, she gets nude and you make a rude remark, not only will the girls get angry at you and you friends they will probably get dressed and leave and they will definitely think your friends are jerks. Another thing to remember is to always try to bring the same number of girls as guys, because lets face it 9 times out of 10 if you are playing strip poker you are trying to hook up with the girls and if there is less girls then guys the girls may get freaked out and if there are more girls then guys one girl may get left out and remember girls stick together so if one is alone there is a good chance no one will hook up.

When throwing a strip poker game at home you have to remember that people will be getting naked and drunk, this is not your weekly home game there is no need to put out any real food maybe some chips, nuts and small snack foods like that. Do not serve any thing too filling or gassy.

And the last thing to remember is that as soon as the guests arrive for the game start them drinking. Inhibitions are lowered by alcohol and the lower the inhibitions the better the game, but also remember as the host of the strip poker game you are responsible for the safety of these girls as well as the guys. Make sure to stay sober enough yourself to know the difference between right and wrong.

Big Buyer Best Starts New Chapter As A Commercial Seller At Fasig-Tipton July

Larry Best has shaken plenty of hands at Thoroughbred auctions after the hammer falls and sales tickets are signed, but there was something different about the exchange on Tuesday at the Fasig-Tipton July Yearling Sale.

After years at the top of the bloodstock market as a high-dollar buyer through his OXO Equine operation, Best shook the hand of winning bidder James Bernhard for the first time as the breeder and seller of a high-dollar sale horse.

“I just congratulated him,” Best said. “Everybody congratulates me when I buy a horse, and this is the first opportunity I've had to congratulate someone as the breeder, and now I know how it feels. We got a fair value for the horse, and you hope they do well.”

The breakthrough offering was Hip 111, a Candy Ride colt out of the Uncle Mo mare Beyond Grace who sold to Bernhard for $350,000.

Best made his intentions to build a top-level broodmare band known in 2019, when he spent $5 million on Breeders' Cup Distaff winner Blue Prize at the Fasig-Tipton November Sale. However, the true foundation of the program was built with his first major purchases at auction.

Though he'd made a couple six-figure purchases during the previous season's yearling sales, Best introduced himself as a sticker-shock buyer at the 2017 Fasig-Tipton Gulfstream Selected 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale, where he landed Beyond Grace for a sale-topping $1.5 million.

The filly went unplaced in three career starts for trainer Chad Brown, and she was sent to Candy Ride for the first time in 2018. Then, she went back to the well a year later to produce the horse that sold on Tuesday.

“I bred her to Candy Ride twice because of the quality of the first foal,” Best said. “This one has a big walk. About nine months from now, he's going to be right-sized, and should have some speed.

“Next year, I'll have probably 30 foals on the ground, and I can't keep all of them,” he continued. “A lot of people do the same thing, they tend to sell the colts and keep the fillies. In this case, I loved the horse but I have the full-brother (a still-to-be-named 2-year-old) already.”

Best keeps his roughly 35-head broodmare band at Taylor Made Farm in Nicholasville, Ky. The operation has further tied itself to the commercial future of OXO Equine as the consignor of his yearlings and the residence of his stallions, Instagrand and Instilled Regard.

Both Instagrand, a Grade 2-winning son of Into Mischief, and Instilled Regard, a Grade 1 winner by Arch, entered stud in 2021, and Best has committed his flashy mares to support them. In December, it was revealed that Blue Prize would be part of Instilled Regard's inaugural book at stud.

“We had a big year with Instagrand,” Best said. “He had 190 mares, so I'm excited about that. I got a little late start with Instilled Regard, but I love him. The pedigree is hard to compete with.”

The factory portion of the OXO Equine operation is approaching the point where it can start producing a full class of homebred racehorses and sale prospects every year, but Best said he still plans to continue being active as a buyer going forward.

Still, with one homebred sale under his belt, Best said he gets the appeal of being on the selling side of the transaction.

“It feels so good to actually breed a horse that someone values,” he said. “It feels right, so I'm going to balance my portfolio out, and it's part of my strategy.”

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Hurricane Lane Returns In Paris

Since the change of the G1 Grand Prix de Paris trip to 12 furlongs in 2005, there is a sense that the Bastille Day feature has grown in stature and in this year's edition the quality has inched up again due mainly to the fact that Hurricane Lane (Ire) (Frankel {GB}) is here. It is 10 years since a winner of the G1 Irish Derby appeared in this race and that was Treasure Beach (GB) (Galileo {Ire}), who was fourth behind another of Andre Fabre's record 13 winners in Meandre (Fr) (Slickly {Fr}), but Godolphin's June 26 Curragh Classic winner looks in a different league to that former Ballydoyle representative and he sets a lofty standard on Wednesday. If able to reproduce the form of his half-length defeat of Lone Eagle (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), with the re-opposing Wordsworth (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) seven lengths adrift, Hurricane Lane will probably be out on his own but there are some serious lurkers in this field who could close the gap.

One is M M Stables' Alenquer (Fr) (Adlerflug {Ger}), who beat Adayar (Ire) (Frankel {GB}), Yibir (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) and Lone Eagle in the Apr. 23 G3 Sandown Classic Trial which remains one of the strongest pieces of 3-year-old form this year. His subsequent win off an absence in Royal Ascot's G2 King Edward VII S. June 18 means that he needs to step up and his outside draw has done him no favours.

Another who went to Royal Ascot was Sir Lamorak (Ire) (Camelot {GB}), but while Wordsworth was contesting the G2 Queen's Vase he was running to a similar figure under topweight in the King George V H. over this trip. Previously pulled out of the G3 Chester Vase due to the rain-softened ground, he remains under the radar but showed with his 3 3/4-length success in a 10-furlong Leopardstown handicap Apr. 11 that he possesses the kind of acceleration to make a mark in this company.

Gestut Schlenderhan's Northern Ruler (Ger) (Ruler of the World {Ire}) beat the May 24 G2 Prix Hocquart winner Bubble Gift (Fr) (Nathaniel {Ire}) in the G3 Prix du Lys over this trip at Chantilly June 20 and is dangerously unexposed having been a third supplementary entry on Saturday. Zak Bloodstock's Bubble Gift may have been a touch unlucky in that contest and trainer Mikel Delzangles is expecting improvement off that effort. “Bubble Gift came out of the Prix du Lys Longines well,” he commented. “He goes on all ground and he has already won at ParisLongchamp, which will certainly be an advantage. All the lights are on green and we are ready to run.”

Another outsider is Ecurie Jean-Louis Bouchard's Baby Rider (Fr) (Gleneagles {Ire}), who took the G2 Prix Greffulhe over 10 1/2 furlongs at Saint-Cloud May 1 before disappointing when only 14th in the G1 Prix du Jockey Club over that trip at Chantilly June 6. “In the Qatar Prix du Jockey Club, Baby Rider couldn't get his breathing together and logically he was then unable to accelerate at the finish,” trainer Pascal Bary said. “It would be ideal to have good ground and after the supplementation of the Irish Derby winner and Epsom Derby third Hurricane Lane, our task is complicated even further. There are some excellent horses still in the race but one thing is for sure, Baby Rider is in great form and will run a big race.”

Also on the card is the G2 Prix de Malleret over the same mile-and-a-half trip, which is diverted from Saint-Cloud and features The Aga Khan's highly-regarded Khalidiya (Fr) (Oasis Dream {GB}), who needs to bounce back from a deflating 16th in the G1 Prix de Diane over 10 1/2 furlongs at Chantilly June 20. From Britain is the Joseph Tuite-trained Via Sistina (Ire) (Fastnet Rock {Aus}), who beat the subsequent winner Chiasma (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) by 5 1/2 lengths over a mile and a quarter at Goodwood May 22. In the 14-furlong G2 Prix Radio FG, or Prix Maurice de Nieuil as it is better known, there is a fascinating rematch between Haras de la Gousserie's Skazino (Fr) (Kendargent {Fr}) and The Aga Khan's Valia (Fr) (Sea the Stars {Ire}). Two lengths separated them in the G2 Prix Vicomtesse Vigier over 300 metres further here last time May 24, but Skazino has a three-pound penalty this time and the filly should be sharper for that reintroduction.

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Grassick: Drugs Are Not Prevalent In Irish Racing

Speaking before the Oireachtas Agriculture Committee at the latest of a series of hearings prompted by trainer Jim Bolger's claim that there would be “a Lance Armstrong” in Irish racing, Irish Racehorse Trainers Association Chief Executive Michael Grassick said he has never been “approached or given information that there were illegal substances being used on horses in training.”

“In my previous life, before I took over the position as CEO of the trainers' association, I was a trainer for 35 years myself and never in my time as a trainer or as CEO of the trainers' association was I ever approached or given information that there were illegal substances being used on horses in training,” Grassick said. “Normally, if that information doesn't come to me it would go to the [Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board]. They are the regulators, so it would be them that would see that sort of information. There are about 350 members who hold a trainer's licence and there's only eight of those trainers that are not a member of the trainers' association.

Bolger first made claims that there is serious doping in Irish racing in a media interview last October, and he made similar comments again to a Sunday Independent reporter this spring but declined to attend the agriculture board's hearings.

“I was surprised [by the claims],” Grassick admitted. “I would have spoke to [Bolger] a couple of months ago, when this first came up. Since Mar. 19 he's no longer a member of the trainers' association. I spoke to him for a long period of time and he had no names of any trainers involved or the names of any drugs. He had no additional information that he could give to me.”

Asked whether he thought there was a problem with doping in Irish racing, Grassick said, “I'd be naive to think nothing ever takes place, but I am personally not aware of anything–nothing has been brought to my attention. Anything would go before the IHRB. It's up to them to investigate if they feel that there is something in Irish racing.

“The amount of testing that goes on pre-race and post-race–if there's anything untoward, it is found. You hear rumours, [but] it's rumours–I can't act on rumours. I can only act on facts and any information that's given to me. As I've said before, if I received any information, I'd go to the IHRB. It's up to them as the regulatory body to investigate.”

Horse Racing Ireland Chief Executive Brian Kavanagh, IHRB Chief Executive Denis Egan and IHRB Chief Veterinary Officer Lynn Hillyer appeared once again at the meeting, with Hillyer addressing an instance of six horses sold from Ireland to the UK who were alleged to have traces of anabolic steroids in their systems.

“I can absolutely and categorically confirm that the six horses originally tested by the BHA were followed up with further testing involving three horses and that is one of the most extensive pieces of work I've ever seen–they went back some three years in terms of hair testing,” she said. “They also undertook sampling unannounced, targeted, intelligence-led– proper stuff–sampling of horses related to those six horses on track over a number of months in England. It was only when that work was completed they were satisfied to say to us that they were happy there was no problem.”

Hillyer addressed the fact that Ireland does not have a system to monitor or register horse movement outside of training.

“You're completely right, we don't have a movement database for horses as is present for cattle, but we would love one and we are working hard on that with other authorities,” she said. “But right here right now, our way to deal with that is to do our homework properly so when we attend a yard, if we have concerns about animals moving, my officers are briefed to literally park behind the horse lorries and make sure they have gone onto the back gate.”

Kavanagh, among other topics, provided an update on racing's response to a BBC Panorama programme slated to air next week focusing on welfare issues of retired racehorses.

“We have had engagement with the production company over the last 10 days, as have our British Horseracing Authority counterparts,” Kavanagh said. “I'm not aware of any legal challenges. We've responded to queries and hopefully that will be reflected in the programme which is due to be broadcast next Monday.

“I think it's very hard to be specific about a programme before it has been published, with regard to promotional material, it's very unspecific and general so until the programme is broadcast, I think it would be wrong to get into a level of detail on something that's going to happen next week.”

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