January, 2023 | Horse Racing Free Tips

Saturday Insights: Ready to Make a ‘Grande’ Entrance

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2nd-FG, $65k, Msw, 3yo, f, 6f, 1:30 p.m. ET
EVERGRANDE (Uncle Mo) cost Don Adam's Courtlandt Farms $1.1 million at Keeneland September in 2021, the priciest of the operation's 12 purchases (for $7.55 million) over the course of the opening week of the sale. Produced by a winning Forestry mare, the Apr. 6 foal is bred on the exact cross as champion and GI Kentucky Derby winner Nyquist and hails from the deeper female family of Grade I-winning juvenile Greenwood Lake (Meadowlake). A then-yearling full-brother to Evergrande fetched $600k from Japanese interests at KEESEP last fall. TJCIS PPs

3rd-GP, $84k, Msw, 3yo, 1 1/16mT, 1:09 p.m. ET
IDLE CHATTER (Justify) draws one from the outside in a field of 10 sophomores for this career debut for the Jack Sisterson stable. The chestnut is the latest foal out of Storm Dixie (Catienus), who was signed for by the late Olin Gentry for $1.9 million in foal to Tapit at the 2014 Fasig-Tipton November Sale about 18 months after the mare's foal Princess of Sylmar (Majestic Warrior) upset the GI Longines Kentucky Oaks. Princess of Sylmar fetched $3.1 million at the same event and has bred two winners from four to race in Japan. TJCIS PPs

4th-TAM, $32k, Msw, 3yo, 1m 40yds, 2:22 p.m. ET
RINGSIDE (Curlin), a $1.3-million KEESEP acquisition by M.V. Magnier, is the latest to race out of the stakes-winning Dashing Debby, one of two second-crop juvenile stakes winners for Medaglia d'Oro, and who went on to produce SW Bronze Star (Tapit) as well as Dawn the Destroyer (Speightstown), a stakes-winning sprinter who was second in the 2019 GI Ballerina S. and third in a GI Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint while racing in the Stonestreet silks. The bay ships up from Palm Meadows off a steady worktab. TJCIS PPs

4th-FG, $65k, Msw, 3yo, f, 6f, 2:30 p.m. ET
SUPER LUXE (Candy Ride {Arg}) was another of the Courtlandt purchases at Keeneland in 2021, hammering for $725k. The March-foaled chestnut has a bit more pedigree power than Evergrande in the first dvision of this race, as she is out of a winning half-sister to SW & MGSP Easyfromthegitgo (Dehere) and GSW Sue's Good News (Woodman), the dam of GISW Tiz Miz Sue (Tiznow) and Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint winner Bulletin (City Zip). The filly's third dam includes champion Cozzene (Caro {Ire}), GISW Free Drop Billy (Union Rags) and dual Group 1 winner Hawkbill (Kitten's Joy). TJCIS PPs

7th-FG, $65k, Msw, 3yo, 6f, 4:00 p.m. ET
Milestone-maker Tyler Gaffalione is in town to ride 'TDN Rising Star' Echo Again (Gun Runner) in the GIII Lecomte S. and takes the call here about that one's stablemate FIRST DEFENDER (Quality Road). The bay races as a homebred for Three Chimneys Farm, who purchased the colt's two-time Grade I-winning dam Love and Pride (A.P. Indy) for $4.9 million in foal to Distorted Humor at FTKNOV in 2013. A half-brother to 2022 Zia Park Oaks winner Bella Runner (Gun Runner) and SW Princesinha Julia (Pioneerof the Nile), First Defender hails from the family of Cara Rafaela (Quiet American), the dam of the late and influential sire and broodmare sire Bernardini (A.P. Indy). The competition includes Guadalajara (Justify), a $250k FTKOCT yearling who is out of a half-sister to Japanese Group 1 winner Mr Melody (Scat Daddy). TJCIS PPs

9th-AQU, $80k, Msw, 3yo, 1m, post time: 4:16 p.m.
LIGHT THE WAY (Justify), a homebred for Jay Em Ess Stable, looks to become the seventh winner from eight foals to race from the Siegel family's nine-time SW and GISP By the Light (Malibu Moon), whose dual Grade I-winning daughter By the Moon (Indian Charlie) is responsible for Full Moon Madness (Into Mischief), runner-up to Champions Dream (Justify) in last year's GIII Nashua S. over this course and distance. TJCIS PPs

10th-FG, $65k, Msw, 3yo, 1 1/16m, 5:30 p.m.
KAUAI DAN (Quality Road), bought back on a bid of $240k at KEESEP in 2021, is a son of 'TDN Rising Star' Kauai Katie (Malibu Moon), a $490k Fasig-Tipton Florida juvenile purchase by Stonestreet who would go on to take four graded stakes and finish third in the 2013 GI Acorn S. Kauai Katie is the year-younger full-sister to Winding Way, who achieved the unprecedented and never-since-matched feat of being named a 'Rising Star' just one day and 3000 miles to the west after Kauai Katie. Validating her 'Rising Star' tag, Winding Way won the GIII Rancho Bernardo H. and has since produced Skinner (Curlin), a $510k OBSAPR breezer who was third in last year's GI Runhappy Del Mar Futurity. TJCIS PPs

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Understanding The Card Game Of Poker

Poker is a card game with many variations that features hidden hands and betting on who has the best, or highest, hand in a shared ranking system with a Royal Flush at the top and a pair at the bottom. This game is played through a series of hands, in each of which has a different dealer and a winner who takes the pot for that hand. This game is known to be cut-throat, but it has also become a lifestyle for many.

The game of Poker, as said, has many variations, but the basic play is simple: A dealer, identified by a white chip (called a button or a buck) being passed around, shuffles the cards and distributes them out to the players one at a time until each player has the required number (usually five or seven, depending on the game). Forced betting occurs as each player automatically throws a minimum bet into the central pot. The game goes through a pre-determined number of rounds, with each player betting, “cashing in” old cards for new ones, calling on a raised bet of another player, or folding, which means that a player surrenders the cards and the pot and sits out for the rest of the hand. At the end, the player with the highest-ranking hand, or the one who has bluffed every other player to fold with a strategically deceived quality of his/her hand, wins the entire pot. The next game then proceeds by shifting to the left . . . .

Other variants of poker are: draw poker, stud poker, community card poker, five-card draw, seven-card stud, and Texas Hold ’em. The basic process described above is commonly shared among all of these Poker variations.

Unbeknownst by many, a plethora of jargon has been incorporated into the everyday conversation of American English. Many terms and phrases, like ace in the hole, ace up one’s sleeve, beats me, blue chip, call one’s bluff, cash in, high roller, pass the buck, poker face, stack up, up the ante, when the chips are down, and wild card have all come from Poker.

Like any game, Poker takes skill. This game also requires being able to read the other players to win. Poker has had professional tournaments since the 1970s; a couple of the more prominent are the World Series of Poker (WSOP) and the World Poker Tour. These tournaments are high stakes and usually powerfully charged.

ITBF Webinar Again Proves Popular

Over 700 individuals from 42 countries on six continents registered to attend the International Thoroughbred Breeders' Federation's (ITBF) third annual webinar held this past Thursday.

Some of the highlights from the webinar include “Aga Khan Studs – A Centenary of Success” presented by legendary journalist, author and television racing presenter Brough Scott MBE. Scott was joined by French Studs manager Georges Rimaud, who answered a variety of questions submitted by attendees from all over the world.

ITBF's Vice Chairman, Dr. Des Leadon, then introduced Professor Anne Couroucé of Nantes University, who discussed the highly concerning EHV Neurological form. Couroucé gave her first-hand experience and subsequent research findings. Her presentation identified the nature of the specific symptoms manifested in relation to the differing environments and disease spread, a vital component in protecting the Thoroughbred world against the devastating consequences of an outbreak.

The video recording of the webinar for all those who were not able to attend the live event is available now. Click here to view the full film “A Game of Chess with Nature–Celebrating 100 years of the Aga Khan Studs.”

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‘I Feel So Blessed’: Tyler Gaffalione Celebrates 2,000-Win Milestone At Gulfstream Park

Jockey Tyler Gaffalione rode his 2,000th winner Friday at Gulfstream Park, where his burgeoning riding career began back in 2014.

The 28-year-old Davie, FL native had closed to within one victory of 2000 wins in Friday's Race 3 aboard pick-up mount Temerity ($8) before reaching the milestone aboard Megacity ($10) in Race 6.

“I feel so blessed. I just want to thank the people who have gotten me to this point, all the people who put in numerous hours in the mornings to make my job easier,” Gaffalione said. “I love what I do. I love being here. It couldn't have happened at a better place, my home track.”

Gaffalione, who won his first race on only his third mount, Holdin' Bullets Sept. 5, 2014 at Gulfstream, enjoyed considerable success right from the start, being honored with an Eclipse Award for the outstanding apprentice jockey in 2015.

“I was a little worried we weren't going to get it done today and then we're going out of town tomorrow,” said Gaffalione, who is scheduled to ride at Fair Grounds Saturday. “But it all worked out.”

Gaffalione notched Win No. 2001 aboard Concrete Glory ($5.20) in Race 9.

Gaffalione, whose father and grandfather were jockeys, is coming off a career-best 2022 season, during which he won seven Grade 1 races, including the $1 million Curlin Florida Derby (G1) aboard White Abarrio, whom he is scheduled to ride in the $3 million Pegasus World Cup Invitational (G1) presented by Baccarat. He also won his first two Breeders' Cup races with Wonder Wheel in the Juvenile Fillies (G1) and Caravel in the Turf Sprint (G1).

Wonder Wheel's Hall of Fame trainer Mark Case provided Gaffalione with his first success in a Triple Crown race via 2019 Preakness Stakes (G1) winner War of Will.

Gaffalione has established himself as Kentucky's most dominant jockey for the past several years while annually ranking among the top jocks during Gulfstream's Championship Meet.

Junior Alvarado is sitting on Win No. 1999 heading into Saturday's program for which he has eight scheduled mounts, including Hot Blooded in the $75,0000 Sunshine Sprint.

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