Siskin Breeding Rights Sold

The breeding rights in Prince Khalid Abdullah’s homebred Tattersalls Irish 2000 Guineas winner Siskin (First Defence) have been sold to “a group of breeders”, Juddmonte confirmed on Monday.

Speaking on Sky Sports Racing, Juddmonte’s racing manager Teddy Grimthorpe said, “Obviously there have been various rumours and talk, so to confirm, breeding rights have been sold to him to a group of breeders. Confidentiality means I cannot say anything further. He will continue to race in the name and colours of Prince Khalid for his racing career.”

Unbeaten in five starts for Ger Lyons, including last season’s G1 Keeneland Phoenix S., Siskin is a descendant of the influential broodmare Best In Show (Traffic Judge), who is also ancestress of such notable performers as the brothers Try My Best (Northern Dancer) and El Gran Senor, wide-margin G1 Dewhurst S. winner Xaar (GB) (Zafonic), and back-to-back GI Belmont S. winners Jazil (Seeking The Gold) and Rags To Riches (A. P. Indy).

Siskin is closely related to the five-time Grade I winner Close Hatches, who is also by First Defence and is out of a half-sister to his dam Bird Flown (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}). First Defence was himself sold to stand in Saudi Arabia in 2016, the year Siskin was conceived, in a deal brokered by Schumer Bloodstock.

Juddmonte currently stands five homebred stallions at its Banstead Manor Stud in Newmarket, including Frankel (GB) and Siskin’s broodmare sire Oasis Dream (GB). The American wing of the operation, which stands Mizzen Mast, was dealt a blow recently by the death of its champion galloper Arrogate, a rare non-homebred to have raced in the prince’s colours who was euthanised in early June at the age of seven.

Grimthorpe added, “Like everything there is a business to be run here and when the offer was made it was considered satisfactory and we took it from there. Obviously Prince Khalid has sold horses before and I’m sure he will do again.”

Among stallions to have been sold by Juddmonte is the late champion sire Danehill, who took up stud duties at Coolmore in 1990. Juddmonte also stands Frankel’s full-brother Noble Mission (GB) and Flintshire (GB) in partnerships respectively with Lane’s End Farm and Hill ‘n’ Dale Farms in Kentucky.

Siskin’s likely next target is the G1 Sussex S. at Goodwood.

 

 

 

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Advanced Blackjack Strategy

Blackjack card counting is an advanced technique to win on blackjack. A player must first learn the basic strategies of blackjack before learning “counting”. By learning the technique of counting you will have the odds with you.

The basic concept of blackjack counting is that a deck filled with 10s and aces will be to your advantage. While the deck of the dealer is filled with smaller cards but is to the dealer’s advantage. Simply put, when the deck is in your favor bet to the maximum, when it’s with the dealer’s bet minimum.

This is because a deck filled with 10 increases the chance of the dealer getting bust. You on the other hand can just opt to stand. In an opposite manner, a deck filled with smaller cards makes the dealers chance to bust less. If you know the deck is filled with 10s or smaller cards, this can give you the advantage of knowing what strategy to use.

The dealer must then always hit until having a soft 17. To hit with a hand of 10 & 6 and knowing the deck is filled with 10s is a bad idea.

If the deck is filled with aces, there is high chance that you’ll hit blackjack. When the player has blackjack, the pay off odds are 3:2. The dealer will only win on the other hand if he also gets a blackjack. That’s why a deck filled with aces is always to the player’s advantage.

Blackjack counting is not done by memorizing each card that has come out of a 6 deck shoe of cards. If you are able to do that, I’d be in awe: you should be in the world records book or maybe even the loony bin.

Blackjack card counting is done by assigning the different card numbers with different point values. Always remember to pick a system that is easy to remember. This will cause fewer mistakes and you will lose less money.

As stated above, you will assign a point value for each card and you will have to add the value of the cards that have come out. This is called the running count. Based on the plus/minus strategy, here are the values assigned.

2, 3,4,5,6 = +1;
7, 8, 9 = 0;
10, J, Q, K, Ace = -1

To illustrate this more clearly:
The first card dealt is an ace, so we start by having -1. Then 6 is the next card dealt so we add 1. This makes the run count back to zero. Then a 3 and 4 follows, making the run count now 2.

After figuring the run count, you can try to figure the true count. You take the running count you have and divide it with the number of decks remaining from the shoe.

The true counts tell you the appropriate bet size and you can base your strategy from there. Good luck!

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