Month: September 2021

Runhappy’s First Japanese Winner Makes Huge Impression

Run This City (Runhappy) became the first Japanese winner for his progressive young sire Wednesday, taking a 1400-meter maiden on the dirt at Ohi Racecourse by an imposing margin.

First to break the line from gate six, the March-foaled bay raced under a nice hold, stalking the pace from the outside for the opening half-mile. Given his head with about 500 meters left to travel, Run This City cornered in front, swapped his leads professionally, his rider sitting hard against him, and was pushed out through the final sixteenth of a mile to score by the better part of 22 lengths. He returned money back (i.e. zero profit) as the prohibitive betting favorite.

Bred in Kentucky by Betz/Magers/CoCo Equine/Kidder/J Betz/Davidson, Run This Time was bought back on a bid of $70,000 at last year's Keeneland September Sale. He is a half-brother to Godolphin's Man of Promise (Into Mischief), winner of the Listed Jafza Dubai Sprint S. sprinting a straight six furlongs over the Meydan turf course this past February and his yearling half-brother by Mendelssohn fetched $310,000 from Mike Ryan on day one of this year's Keeneland September sale.

Run This City is out Involved (Speightstown), a winning half-sister to MGSW Skip To the Stone (Skip Trial) and SW My Heavenly Sign (Forest Camp), the dam of the SP Avasaraia (Point of Entry). Involved was not bred in 2020 and was purchased by Dunthreath Farm for $8,000 at Keeneland January earlier this year. She was most recently covered by Audible.

Run This City is the ninth 2-year-old winner from the second crop of Runhappy, whose son Run To Daylight became his fourth black-type winner in the Henry Mercer Memorial S. Sept. 18.

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Soumillon To Ride Tarnawa In Arc

Christophe Soumillon will be reunited with the Aga Khan's Tarnawa (Ire) (Shamardal) in the G1 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe on Oct. 3. Soumillon, the Aga Khan's retained rider in France, was aboard Tarnawa for wins in last year's G1 Prix Vermeille and G1 Prix de l'Opera, but was replaced last minute by Colin Keane for Tarnawa's victory in the GI Breeders' Cup Turf at Keeneland after testing positive for Covid-19. Keane was in the saddle for Tarnawa's comeback score in the G3 Ballyroan S. on Aug. 5 and for her second-place finish to St Mark's Basilica (Fr) (Siyouni {Fr}) in the G1 Irish Champion S. on Sept. 11.

Trainer Dermot Weld told the Irish Times, “Christophe Soumillon will ride Tarnawa in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe. He knows the filly well and he is His Highness's retained jockey in France.”

Tarnawa is the general 11-4 favourite for the Arc ahead of G1 Derby winner Adayar (GB) (Frankel {GB}) at 4-1.

In other Arc news, last year's G1 Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere winner Sealiway (Fr) (Galiway {GB}) has been named an intended runner. The 3-year-old has not been seen since finishing second to St Mark's Basilica in the Prix du Jockey Club on June 6.

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Mac Lovers Wild Over FullTilt Poker

FullTilt Poker has just gotten fuller.

Let’s face it: PokerRoom.com notwithstanding, there aren’t many sites where Mac users can enjoy a good, live game of multiplayer poker. For the most part, Mac users have had to settle for Flash or Java-based “No Download” versions (also called “Lite” versions, for predictable reasons) of their main PC-only poker room. And the rare site that caters specifically to Mac users suffers from a lack of quality traffic, as they exclude PC users from joining the tables. But no more! As of January 19, 2006, Full Tilt Poker opens its cyber-doors to Apple Computers.

FullTilt Poker, the only online poker room where you can learn from and compete in real money games against over 10 top poker celebrities, has released a fully-featured downloadable version of its online poker software for Macs. The Mac supported software will allow Mac users to join FullTilt Poker’s over 10,000 active PC-owning players at the tables. Finally, at one Full Tilt Poker table, you can play against Mac users and PC users at the same time.

FullTilt Poker launched their Mac release with the, “An Apple A Day” promotion, where they gave away one 17″ iMac each day for 2 weeks following the release.

The interface, graphics, sounds, gameplay — everything about Full Tilt Poker for Mac is exactly the same or as good as its PC equivalent. FullTilt Poker players, whether on Macintosh or Windows, enjoy hand histories, player notes, and an “Auto-Center” view mode for the best overall view of game, all the time.

The story gets still fuller, however, for FullTilt Poker is also offering Mac users Podcasting and Videocasting capabilities. That means players can view and even subscribe to webcasts of online poker playing tips, news, interviews, player bios, and more.

FullTilt Poker 4.1.2 for Mac is currently in Beta mode, meaning that it may not have all the kinks ironed out, but updates are imminent. Until then, Beta users identifying any bugs they find in the software are rewarded with a “bounty” of a FullTilt Poker baseball cap. Mac OS 10.3 or higher is required to run Full Tilt Poker for Mac.

The slim selection of Mac-friendly online poker rooms also includes Hollywood Poker, Pacific Poker, and Bugsy’s Club, but only FullTilt Poker for Mac comes with all the benefits of playing at FullTilt Poker, namely “Team Full Tilt”, among them: Andy Bloch, Chris Ferguson, Phil Gordon, Clonie Gowen, Jennifer Harman, Phil Ivey, John Juanda, Howard Lederer, Erick Lindgren, Mike Matusow, and Erik Seidel.

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