July, 2023 | Horse Racing Free Tips

BetMakers Secures Penn National Content For Fixed Odds Wagering In New Jersey

BetMakers Technology Group (“BetMakers”), a global leader in wagering technology, has announced the addition of racing content from Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course (“Penn National”) to the growing slate of races available for fixed odds betting on MonmouthBets, the only legal, regulated fixed odds horse racing platform in the United States. Through an exclusive license, BetMakers facilitates the supply of fixed odds wagering services in New Jersey, including data, digital platforms, and retail terminals.

The agreement between Penn National's parent company PENN Entertainment and BetMakers' Global Racing Network facilitates the delivery of content for fixed odds betting from Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course in Pennsylvania and anticipates the addition of other PENN Entertainment racetracks in the coming months pending required horsemen and racing commission approvals. Penn National Race Course offers some of the nation's best night-time thoroughbred racing on a year-round basis.

“We are very happy to work with BetMakers to offer New Jersey's racing fans an opportunity to bet fixed odds on Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course,” said Chris McErlean, Vice President – Racing for PENN Entertainment. “We are interested in the reaction to our product in the New Jersey fixed odds wagering marketplace and hope that it will provide positive returns for not only Penn National but the wider racing industry.”

With the addition of the Penn National content, New Jersey bettors now have the opportunity to place fixed odds wagers on racing from 16 racetracks across the USA, Canada, the Caribbean, and South America.

“We are delighted to make Penn National's excellent racing available to fixed odds bettors in New Jersey,” said Jake Henson, CEO of BetMakers Technology Group. “In addition to conducting some of the highest quality racing in the United States, Penn National's availability for fixed odds betting helps further expand New Jersey's fixed odds betting content schedule. PENN Entertainment is a valued partner to BetMakers and we are excited to demonstrate the opportunities that the combination of fixed odds and tote betting – when offered on a robust racing menu – can offer North American racing's stakeholders. We look forward to adding more PENN Entertainment content in the future.”

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Jockey Of The Week: Journeyman Angel Castillo Scores First Graded Win At Saratoga

Journeyman jockey Angel Castillo is usually found riding at Parx or other mid-Atlantic tracks, but on Saturday he had the call on Yo Yo Candy in the Grade 3 Sanford Stakes at Saratoga. As Yo Yo Candy's regular rider, he was happy to make the trip.

The 2-year-old colt's win marked Castillo's first graded stakes victory in North America and led to Castillo being honored as Jockey of the Week for July 10 through July 16 by a panel of racing experts. The award recognizes jockeys for riding accomplishments and who are members of the Jockeys' Guild, the organization which represents more than 1,050 active, retired and permanently disabled jockeys in the United States.

When trainer Daniel Velazquez gave a leg up to Castillo on Yo Yo Candy in the G3 Sanford, it marked just the second mount for Castillo at the storied Saratoga Race Course. His last visit was in 2012.

Off at odds of 46-1 in the field of nine, YoYo Candy broke cleanly from post position four and raced in fourth behind early leaders Dickens and Market Street. Yo Yo Candy fanned four wide into the stretch and took the lead at five furlongs, edging away to win by 2 1/4 lengths in 1:11.83 for the six-furlong contest. Post time favorite Gold Sweep was second after stumbling badly out of the gate.

“I'm always looking for opportunities to demonstrate my talent and I try to take my one or two opportunities,” said Castillo. “The trip was very good. I had a good start and good position in the race. In the turn, he charged outside and in the stretch he ran very good.”

Castillo, 53, is considered one of the top riders in Venezuela of all time. He moved his tack to the United States in 2000. His lifetime statistics in the United States include 957 wins and more than $25 million in purse earnings to date.

Castillo outpolled fellow riders Javier Castellano with two stakes wins including the Gr. III Schuylerville, Tyler Conner with a stakes win at Gulfstream and nine wins for the week, Flavien Prat who won the Gr. I Diana and Jaime Rodriguez who won 11 races to lead all jockeys for the week.

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Bloodlines: Saratoga Stakes Spark Third-Crop Sire Race For Practical Joke, Danzing Candy

A pair of third-crop sires sent out the racers who won Saratoga's graded stakes for juveniles last week: the Grade 3 Sanford and the G3 Schuylerville.

Yo Yo Candy (by Danzing Candy) won the Sanford for his second victory from three starts, and the California-bred colt had come into the race following a third-placing in the listed Tremont Stakes at Belmont behind Gold Sweep (Speightstown), who was the odds-on favorite for the Sanford but had stumbled badly at the start, was bumped early, and came six wide in the stretch to finish second by 2 ¼ lengths. Yo Yo Candy did nothing wrong and won nicely.

In the Schuylerville two days before the Sanford, the winner was Becky's Joker (Practical Joke), who was making her career debut. The bay filly broke a bit slowly but stayed in contact with the leaders and came between horses in the stretch to win by 3 1/4 lengths from the Arrogate filly Saratoga Secret, a debut winner in her previous start at Ellis Park. Becky's Joker had been the second-longest shot on the board and paid $44.40 to win.

Her debut success moved Becky's Joker to the top of the class for her sire's third crop of racers at the track, and Practical Joke (Into Mischief) stands second on the list of all third-crop sires, behind only Gun Runner (Candy Ride), who is stoutly ahead of all his contemporaries. Arrogate (Unbridled's Song) is third, with Practical Joke's stud companion Classic Empire (Pioneerof the Nile) fourth, and Connect (Curlin) fifth. This group is notably ahead of the rest, with a $1.5 million margin back to the stallion in sixth.

The overall leading earner for Practical Joke this year is G1 Santa Anita Derby winner Practical Move, and Practical Joke is the leading third-crop sire by number of starters and number of winners; he is tied for first by number of stakes winners with Arrogate (5) and for number of G1 winners (1) with both Arrogate (Arcangelo) and Classic Empire (Angel of Empire).

Practical Joke also has sired more foals than any other North American stallion with third-crop racers; he has 400 foals, according to data from Equineline, including 126 current 2-year-olds.

Obviously, the volume of a stallion's foals provides some potential benefits in lifting him up the list of earnings and recognition, but it also has the potential to backfire if too many of his progeny are not especially talented. Overall, however, more is better, especially for the success of a young stallion in rising up the earnings list.

Of the top 25 stallions by third-crop earnings, only four do not have 100 total foals or more from their first three crops combined. Only four.

Of that quartet, two are based in Maryland: Blofeld (16th place; by Quality Road) stands at Murmur Farm and Holy Boss (19th; Street Boss) is at Anchor & Hope Farm.

The other pair of regional stallions stand at the same farm in Louisiana: Jay Adcock's Red River Farms, and the stallions are Mo Tom (23rd; Uncle Mo) and El Deal (24th; Munnings).

All the other stallions in the top 25 have more than 100 total foals by this point, and the next is perhaps the most telling point: No other third-crop stallion has more than 100 foals, except for those 21 who account for the majority of the top 25 spots on the rankings.

Food for thought?

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Just as Becky's Joke provided further evidence of the success of Practical Joke and his position within this crop of young sires, where do we find Danzing Candy after his son's Saratoga success?

With 214 foals to date, Danzing Candy stands 18th on the list of third-crop sires from his base at Rancho San Miguel in California. Yo Yo Candy was his sire's second stakes winner and first graded winner. The Sanford Stakes winner is Danzing Candy's leading earner of 2023, as well.

Total volume of foals is clearly a major aid to a young stallion's potential to ascend the rankings and find a significant place at stud. Total foals alone, however, do not make a success, and when breeders and buyers have seen several hundred foals from a sire without notable victories, they beat a hasty retreat.

The inverse of this proposition makes for interesting thought. What are we to make of those young sires who did not benefit from very large numbers of foals yet found a good place on the sire rankings?

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Catalogue Out For Wanamaker’s July Sale

In addition to broodmares and broodmare prospects, Wanamaker's newly-released July Catalogue is comprised of racing prospects, yearlings and foals selling alongside their mothers, the online auction house said in a press release Wednesday.

Bidding will open Thursday, June 27 at 8:00 a.m. ET, with the first listing set to close at 5:00 p.m. Subsequent listings will close in three-minute increments. Prospective buyers may browse the website to view pedigrees, pictures and videos of each hip offered. In-person inspections may be scheduled by contacting sellers with the information provided in the catalogue.

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