It’s horse racing, but not as we know it – Chepstow prepares to ride again
Chepstow racecourse Phil Bell underlines how different a business the sport will be when it returns in Wales on Monday.
Carpe Diem Colt Breaks Through in Hong Kong
Sent off the 35-100 favorite in Sunday’s 1000-meter Chairmen’s Day Plate at Hong Kong’s Sha Tin Racecourse, Chancheng Prince (Carpe Diem) made light work of four other rivals to score by 3 1/4 convincing lengths (video). The event was restricted to so-called griffins, Southern Hemisphere 2-year-olds and Northern Hemisphere 3-year-olds that are unraced prior to their arrival in Hong Kong.
With second-leading rider Joao Moreira taking the reins for the first time, the gray colt hopped slightly at the start, then raced prominently on the stands’ rail. Sent into the lead for good about 400 meters out, he pinched a winning break and pulled clear to win with something in the locker. It was the fourth lifetime appearance for Chancheng Prince, who was cutting back to the straight five furlongs off a solid runner-up effort going three-quarters of a mile May 24.
The gray colt is the third to make the races from his dam Bliss (Flashy Bull), herself a $190,000 Keeneland September yearling and winner of half of her eight trips to the post for earnings north of $150,000. An Apr. 20 foal, Chancheng Prince is bred by Torie Gladwell’s Mystic Bloodstock and was sold to owner Raymond Kuah for $150,000 after breezing a quarter-mile in :21.1 at the 2019 OBS April Sale. He was sold by Top Line Sales, the consignment run by Gladwell and her husband Jimbo. Bliss foaled a filly by Mastery this year. The Gladwells sold a Not This Time filly for a sales-topping $1.35 million at OBS Spring this past week.
The final griffin race of the season is programmed for Sunday, July 5 back over 1200 meters.
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Teofilo’s Tawkeel Out On Her Own In the Saint-Alary
It was another big day in the careers of Jean-Claude Rouget and Cristian Demuro at Chantilly on Sunday as Shadwell’s Tawkeel (GB) (Teofilo {Ire}) extended her unbeaten run in some style in the G1 Saxon Warrior Coolmore Prix Saint-Alary. Always on an even keel in third, the winner of minor events at Pau Jan. 3, Cagnes-sur-Mer Feb. 22 and Deauville May 24 rushed by the G3 Prix Vanteaux winner Magic Attitude (GB) (Galileo {Ire}) with 350 metres to race and on to a five-length success from that rival, who held the favourite Solsticia (Ire) (Le Havre {Ire}) by a head.
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About Five Card Stud
At one time 5-card stud was the most popular poker game being dealt. It was started in New Orleans and moved up the Mississippi on the steamboats and moved out west with the gold rush and the end of the Civil War. The game is rather simple to play and does entail some bluffing, as the hand possibilities are easy to read. It is played with one card dealt face down and four cards dealt face up. The betting starts after the first two cards are dealt and continues after each of the other three are dealt. This game is the game that is played in the movie Cincinnati Kid.
Now days the online casinos offer it less and less. Some Live casinos will still set a table on certain days or on special days. The game is becoming harder to find and many new players to poker have never played the game. The best starting hand is a pair of Aces or any other high pair. Pairs of higher value do have a tendency to hold up in this game. Three of a kind is a monster hand and any hand bigger than that would be a super monster. Five-card draw poker replaced this game in popularity, as it allowed more betting and more gambling as each player got to see more cards to make a hand. Lack of betting possibilities is what helped to kill off 5-card stud. Seven-card stud finally replaced both in most card rooms and this game is still one of the casino favorites.
There is a romance about 5-card stud and it was favored in the movies for a long time as it is relatively easy to understand and follow the action as a hand is played out.
Conclusions
Five-card stud is a fine game for learning to play poker and hand values. The lack of complications makes it an easy game to quickly learn and play. The other feature of this stud game is the art of the bluff. Bluffing is part of poker and stud is a game that a good bluffer will do well at against other players at the table. If you do not have a pair at the end of the five cards it is very hard to call a large bet with just an ace high. Four cards to a flush showing is tough to call without a pair.
