After an epic centennial celebration in 2021 that included a championship-deciding win by The Mean Queen in the Grand National Hurdle Stakes as one on several highlights, the Far Hills Race Meeting returns in 2022 for its 101st running as New Jersey’s premier social and sporting event. What should I wear to the Far Hills Race Meeting? Can I bet? What do I need to know ahead of raceday? You have questions, we have answers! Here’s what you need to know before you go to the famed New Jersey jump races on Saturday, Oct. 15.
Month: October 2022
Breeders’ Cup Bid Unlikely For Saffron Beach After Dirty Scope
Plans for a tilt at the Breeders' Cup are on hold for dual Group 1 winner Saffron Beach (Ire) after she scoped dirty following defeat in her Sun Chariot defence at Newmarket on Saturday.
Trained by Jane Chapple-Hyam, the daughter of New Bay (GB) has been one of the shining lights of the Flat campaign, recording her second Group 1 triumph when running out an impressive winner of the Prix Rothschild at Deauville in August.
However, Saffron Beach ran way below par at Newmarket on Saturday, and the Breeders' Cup trip could be over before it had ever begun following a dirty scope.
Chapple-Hyam explained, “It is very unfortunate. We got her back to the yard and we scoped her, because she was sound.
“We thought we had better put a scope down her to see if there was anything going on inside, and she scoped dirty, with mucus. She is on a course of antibiotics.
“It was very similar to when she ran a nothing race in last year's Falmouth S. She looked fine on Saturday and got the 'best-turned-out' award, too.
“The frustrating thing is we scoped her after her last gallop, just to check, and everything was clean and she showed no signs of coughing. Yet we put the scope down after the race and she had a dirty lung.”
Owned by Lucy, Ben and Ollie Sangster in partnership with James Wigan, Saffron Beach is due to go under the hammer at Tattersalls in December. Whether Saffron Beach races again before that dat has not been decided.
Chapple-Hyam added, “We will regroup and I will see the owners at the Tattersalls Sales later in the week. She has a few weeks to recover, but I don't know at this stage how the treatment will go. At least we have got an answer, because you can be left not knowing.”
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Other results proved that bingo players scored higher and were faster and more accurate in the tests than people who do not play. Older bingo players had exactly the same mental capabilities than there younger counterparts, and both groups achieved the same level of performance. The only difference between the two age groups was that the younger participants were faster, and the older participants were more accurate.
More good news is that older bingo players don’t need to exercise as much if they play bingo. Other researchers have proved that playing regularly keep players’ minds trim and that the older they are, the more agile their minds are.
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Studies on the psychological benefits of playing bingo regularly can improve bingo players’ social status, sense of worth, social interaction as well as productivity.
Research on the circumstances of the elderly in old age homes proved that the opportunity to play bingo helped some bingo players to escape from their depression, a common disease in old age homes.
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‘He’s A Very Good Marathon Horse’: Heywoods Beach Lands Tokyo City Cup, Connections Ponder Breeders’ Cup Classic
Although he's by a champion sprinter, long-fused Heywoods Beach prefers marathon distances, evidenced by his convincing neck victory in Sunday's $100,000 Tokyo City Cup (G3) going 1 ½ miles on Santa Anita main track.
Trained by John Sadler and ridden to perfection by Ramon Vazquez, Heywoods Beach got the trip in 2:31.98.
With a backstretch start, Heywoods Beach was a joint third about 1 ½ lengths off pacesetter Storm the Court under the wire the first time and in the run to the far turn. Three furlongs from home, Vazquez slipped through at the rail as Storm the Court drifted out a bit, was on terms with favored Tizamagician turning for home and gradually inched clear through the lane while holding off a late bid from longshot Win the Day.
Owned by Hronis Racing LLC, Heywoods Beach, who although well beaten on grass in the Del Mar Handicap (G3) Sept. 3, defeated Tizamagician in winning the Cougar II Stakes (G3) at 1 1/2 miles on dirt two starts back on July 24.
The second choice Sunday at 7-2 in a field of seven 3-year-olds and up, Heywoods Beach paid $9.
A 5-year-old horse by 2004 champion sprinter Speightstown, out of the Catienus mare Unfold the Rose, Heywoods Beach got his second graded stakes win and his fifth win from 20 overall starts while getting his second victory from three tries at 1 1/2 miles.
With the winner's share of $60,000, Heywoods Beach ran his earnings to $349,751.
Last after the first half mile, Win the Day finished well under Umberto Rispoli, 1 ½ lengths in front of third-place finisher and4-5 favorite Tizamagician under Mike Smith.
Storm the Court, who set an early tempo of :23.37, :48.68, 1:13.40, and 1:39.32 through one mile, finished fifth in the seven-horse field.
JOCKEY QUOTES
RAMON VAZQUEZ, HEYWOODS BEACH, WINNER: “I decided that I was going to go out there and win my second stakes of the day. I rode good horses today. I know my horse, (Heywoods Beach) is a good horse and likes the distance, and he had enough energy through the last quarter. I had a great trip with him, and we found the hole in the race–it was easy.”
TRAINER QUOTES
JOHN SADLER, HEYWOODS BEACH, WINNER: “He's a good marathon horse. He's run well, he's won here at a mile and a quarter in the past and won twice now at a mile and a half. He's a very good marathon horse.
“I noticed last year (Ramon) won quite a few of these races on (a horse named) Lone Rock, so I think he has a fairly good touch at a mile and a half on dirt. He rode (Heywoods Beach) at Del Mar and rode him well. Last time we really didn't get a good trip on the grass, but this is more his thing.”
OWNER QUOTES
KOSTA HRONIS, HEYWOODS BEACH, WINNER: “Ramon (Vazquez) rode him perfectly. We knew that those would be the fractions for the race, and we knew he liked the distance. It was a repeat performance of the Cougar at Del Mar. We are definitely thinking of the Breeders' Cup Classic (G1) and the (Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance [G2] [formerly known as the Marathon Stakes] Nov. 4). It's a taxing route, but John (Sadler) is giving it every consideration if he comes out of this race fine. We will wait and see.”
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