Month: March 2022

The Back Ring: The Common Thread Between This Generation’s Top Freshman Sires

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The latest issue of the Back Ring is now online, ahead of the OBS March 2-Year-Olds In Training Sale.

The Back Ring is the Paulick Report's bloodstock newsletter, released ahead of, and during, every major North American Thoroughbred auction. Seeking to expand beyond the usual pdf presentation, the Back Ring offers a dynamic experience for bloodstock content, heavy on visual elements and statistics to appeal to readers on all platforms, especially mobile devices.

Here is what's inside this issue…

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  • Lead Feature presented by Gainesway: The top five sires in each freshman class since 2014 might have gotten on the list in different ways, but they all checked the same critical box before their first runners even reached the racetrack.
  • Ask Your Veterinarian presented by Kentucky Performance Products: Dr. Kathleen Paasch of Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital outlines three things to keep an eye out for when reviewing pre-sale radiographs.
  • Lesson Horses presented by Texas Thoroughbred Association: Lane Richardson of Richardson Bloodstock describes what the star of his late father's barn taught him about life, and dealing with elite horses.
  • The Overseas Breeze presented by Breeze-Up Consignors Association: The inaugural Dubai Breeze Up Sale is catered heavily toward dirt-focused end-users, and the pedigrees in the catalog reflect that. European breeze up consignors discuss training for a different clientele, and the U.S.-sired entries in the catalog are listed.
  • Pennsylvania Leaderboard presented by Pennsylvania Horse Breeders Association: A stellar campaign in the Keystone State made Beren the top generator of Pennsylvania incentive program earnings for his owners, breeders, and stallion owners. See who else brought in serious money for their connections in 2021.
  • Best of the Breeders presented by Muirfield Insurance: Though its operation recently dispersed, Canadian stalwart Sam-Son Farm remains a top producer of graded stakes winners through early 2022.
  • First-Crop Sire Watch: Stallions whose first crops of 2-year-olds are represented in the OBS March Sale, with the number of horses cataloged and the farms where they are currently advertised.

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Tattersalls Ascot March Catalogue Released

The catalogue for the Mar. 31 Tattersalls Ascot March Sale is now online. Comprised of 102 lots, there are 22 fillies and mares in/out of training, 63 colts and geldings in/out of training, 11 point-to-pointers, a pair of 2-year-olds and four store horses. Many leading stables have horses catalogued, including Barbury Castle Stables, Bective Stud, Closutton Stables, Cullentra House, Godolphin, Kingsley Park, Lodge Hill Stables, Saxon Gate and Park House Stables. Of the nine lots consigned by Godolphin, Angel's Thunder (Ire) (Night of Thunder {Ire}) (lot 59) is the highlight, as an unraced relative of the G1 Oaks heroine Qualify (Ire) (Fastnet Rock {Aus}). A point-to-point bumper winner at Great Trethew, Valereum Bridge (Ire) (Fame And Glory {GB}) (lot 83) will go through the ring from Shannon Lodge Stables. Petit Mouchoir (Fr) (Al Namix {Fr}) (lot 125), who won the G1 Irish Champion Hurdle, hails from the draft of Bective Stud. Entries will be accepted through Mar. 28.

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Playing Pai Gow – Part 1

In a recent article, I talked about how I love to play Pai Gow and I gave you a little intro into the game. Today, I’m starting a beginner’s series on how to play Pai Gow. It’s an easy game to learn and we’ll take our time-going over everything in detail.

Quick Recap

Pai Gow is played with your typical 52-card deck and one joker card. You’ll receive seven cards and you’ll divide them into two hands. Your job is to beat the bank’s hand and as a player, you’ll have the chance to be the bank-unless the casino doesn’t offer that option.

Getting Started

The invention and growth of online casinos has really helped the low-limit Pai Gow players. It used to be that you’d have a tough time finding a Pai Gow game lower than $10 and even $10 Pai Gow games were hard.

Today, you can just jump online and find $5 Pai Gow games all over the Internet.

After you make your wager-and other player’s do the same-the dealer shuffles up the deck and deals out seven cards per hand spot. It’s important to note that the entire deck is used for each hand-unlike Blackjack where you just keep playing through the deck until it’s gone.

After this is complete, the hands at the spots where there are no players are taken. Yes, the dealer deals to empty spots. This is part of the game play. So, unlike Blackjack where players coming and going can affect hands, it doesn’t matter in Pai Gow.

We’ll talk about the bank later, but now that the hands are dealt and the bank is decided, it’s time to examine your hand. You’re going to break up your seven cards into two hands. The first hand will consist of one five-card hand, which is your best hand. Then the remaining two cards will make up your “2nd Highest” hand.

Now, before you rush out and player, there’s one important item you need to know. Your five-card hand MUST be the highest-ranking hand or you forfeit your money. For instance, you couldn’t put two Aces are your two-card hand and then have a pair of 2s as your five-card hand.

The strategy comes in decided how far to go. For instance, do you go with two pair as your highest hand and nothing as your 2nd highest hand or do you break them up? We’ll go over Pai Gow strategy in other articles.

Time To Win

Once all the hands are set, meaning they’ve all been split into the highest and 2nd highest hands, it’s time for the dealer to play. The dealer (not always the bank) will turn over the hand and set it according to casino rules.

To win, both of your hands need to beat both of the Banker’s hands. If you win one and lose one, it’s a push. Should one of your hands be exactly like one of the Banker’s hands, it’s called a “copy” and the Banker wins the hand.

In part two, we’ll continue with more on the Banker.

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