The winner of last year’s Lecomte Stakes may have slipped into obscurity as Call Me Midnight lost his next eight races in 2022.
Month: January 2023
Scarlet Fusion Caps Graded Stakes Double At Sam Houston For Breeder Stonestreet Thoroughbred Holdings
Scarlet Fusion provided back-to-back graded stakes triumphs for breeder Stonestreet Thoroughbred Holdings when capturing the $200,000 John B. Connally Turf Cup (G3) Saturday at Sam Houston Race Park.
The 5-year-old son of Curlin, owned by Carl R. Moore Management LLC and Brad Grady, got up in the final strides to best front-runner Another Mystery by three-quarters of a length.
One race earlier on the card, Stonestreet's homebred Grade 1 winner Pauline's Pearl won the $300,000 Houston Ladies Classic.
Ridden by Adam Beschizza for trainer Joe Sharp, Scarlet Fusion finished the 1 1/2-mile Connally Turf Cup in 2:33.50 on turf rated as soft and gained his first stakes victory.
Another Mystery finished a neck to the good of third-place finisher Spooky Channel, the even-money favorite in the field of nine older runners.
Scarlet Fusion, who was third in Oaklawn Park's 1 1/8-mile Tinsel Stakes Dec. 17 in his stakes debut in his previous start, returned $9.80 for Saturday's win while improving to 4-4-7 from 20 lifetime outings. The winner's share of the purse boosted his career bankroll to $427,918.
His owners purchased him last year for $110,000 at the Keeneland April horses of racing age sale, where Eaton Sales was the consignor.
The bay horse was bred in Kentucky from the French Deputy mare Scarlet Tango.
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Gulfstream Park: Sunday’s Rainbow 6, With Mandatory Payout, Likely To Have Multi-Million-Dollar Pool
A highly anticipated mandatory payout of the 20-cent Rainbow 6 pool will be held Sunday at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Fla.
The Rainbow 6 carryover jackpot pool stood at $828,941 following Saturday's Pegasus World Cup card, on which the popular multi-race wager went unsolved for the 17th racing day in a row following a single-ticket jackpot hit for $533,783.63.
The Rainbow 6 jackpot pool is expected to climb into the multi-millions. On mandatory-payout days, the entire Rainbow 6 jackpot pool is paid out to the bettor or bettors with the most winners in the wager's six-race sequence. The carryover jackpot is usually only paid out when there is a single unique ticket sold with all six winners. On days when there is no unique ticket, 70 percent of that day's pool usually goes back to those bettors holding tickets with the most winners, while 30 percent is carried over to the jackpot pool.
Sunday's Rainbow 6 sequence will span Races 6-11, kicked off with a mile starter allowance on turf for older horses that have started for a $50,000 claiming price or lower. A well-matched field of 11 includes Mark Casse-trained My Sea Cottage, who looked sharp romping to a 5 ¾-length front-running victory against $35,000 non-winners-of-2 claimers; and Martin Drexler-trained Meyer, a model of consistency at Woodbine in similar company; and Carlos David Jr.-trained Hashtag No Wonder, a deep closer who would benefit from a contested pace.
An $84,000 maiden special weight race for 3-year-old fillies at 1 1/16 miles follows in Race 7. Todd Pletcher-trained Tituba, a daughter of Good Magic who is coming off a troubled debut at Churchill Downs, and Shug McGaughey-trained Biloxi Blues, a daughter of Tapit who finished third in her debut at Aqueduct after a bumping start; are prominent contenders in a field of nine.
The $70,000 Gun Runner Starter Handicap for older horses at 1 1/8 miles on Tapeta in Race 8 attracted 10 entrants for what could prove to be a popular 'spread' race.
An $86,000 optional claiming allowance for 3-year-olds at six furlongs follows in Race 9. Patrick Biancone-trained Diamond Cool, from the family of Diamond Oops and Diamond Wow, is rated as the 2-1 morning-line favorite off a sharp 8 ¾-length maiden romp. Daniel Pita-trained English Bob, a dominating debut winner Dec. 23; and Carlos David-trained Dangerous Ride, a multiple stakes-placed son of Lord Nelson who has made seven straight stakes appearances since a debut victory; are also entered.
Jimmy Toner, who is off to a fast start for the Championship Meet, will saddle Traffic Song, a runner-up in his return to Gulfstream, for a start in Race 10, a mile optional claiming allowance for older fillies and mares on turf. Chad Brown-trained Lady Day, who finished third, a length behind Traffic Song in her second U.S. start; Brian Lynch-trained Fast as Flight, who finished a game second in her most recent start at Gulfstream; and John Servis-trained Love In The Air, a multiple Pennsylvania-bred stakes winner; are among a competitive field off nine.
The Rainbow 6 sequence concludes with an $84,000 maiden special weight races at 1 1/16 miles on turf for 3-year-old fillies in Race 11. A full field of 12 includes two debuting daughters of Justify, Jack Sisterson-trained Idle Chatter and Brendan Walsh-trained Fancy. Mark Casse-trained Pedigeek, a daughter of Arrogate who overcame bumping to finish third in his recent debut; Brendan Walsh-trained Sri Lanka, a daughter of Munnings, who finished more than two lengths of Pedigeek while second in her debut; and Jonathan Thomas-trained Mrs. Astor and Fausto Gutierrez-trained Penumbras Maker, second and third, respectively, in a recent maiden race on turf; are among the most promising entrants that have started.
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Video Poker History
The video poker machine is one of the most popular gambling machines in existence today. Part poker, and part video game, it’s the perfect combination to make it a modern day gambling sensation. Although today’s video poker machines are the epitome of our current high tech in gambling, they have existed in simpler form for about two hundred years.
Video poker is of course based on the card game of poker. The video poker machine of today is the result of the game of poker being manifested into different types of games at varying levels of technology through the generations. The game of poker has been played in America since the early 1880s, with the game being referred to as ‘Poker’ in 1834 by a man name Jonathan Green.
The earliest recorded ancestors of the video poker machine were coin operated machines which used poker cards. These machines came into the scene in the late 1800s, and were manufactured by a company by the name of Sittman and Pitt of Brooklyn. The poker card machines were placed in liquor stores and cigar shops, and shortly worked their way across the U.S.
These machines worked by the player putting a coin into the poker machine and pulling a handle, which spun five drums that held the poker cards. The player would wait for it to stop, while hoping for a winning hand. A winning hand was paid out in cigars or drinks. Sadly, and unbeknownst to the players, the Ten of Spades and the Jack of Hearts were left out of the deck to reduce the chances of winning.
In 1901, Charles Fey made the next big improvement to the poker machine by adding the first ‘draw’ feature to the already wildly popular machine. Fey’s addition to the poker machine allowed the player to actually use their poker skills in the game, as opposed to being left to the mercy of blind luck.
Charles Fey’s improvement allowed the player to hold certain drums still after the first spin, while pulling the handle to spin the remaining drums. This in effect was the first ‘hold’ and ‘draw’ combination.
Over the following years, people’s interest in poker card machines diminished, with only an occasional hiccup of interest every now and again. It wasn’t until the late 1970s that the poker machine was reborn into the video poker machine, thus rekindling the love of video poker.
The first of these machines appeared along side of the personal computer. It was this technology which made the video poker machine a reality. With its solid state circuitry, and its television like monitor, this clunky machine would give rise to the poker machines of today. These machines have made their homes in bars, casinos and even online.
