Robin Goodfellow’s Racing Tips: Best bets for Wednesday, January 6
Sportsmail's racing expert Robin Goodfellow dishes out his tips for Wednesday's meetings at Wolverhampton and Kempton.
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Meadowlands: Pick 5 Pool Guaranteed At $100,000 On Saturday, Jan. 9
The Meadowlands is pleased to announce that Saturday, Jan. 9 will have a guaranteed Pick 5 pool of $100,000. Additionally, the pool with be seeded with $25,000.
Free past performances will be available for this and every live race card at PlayMeadowlands.com.
“We want to run a wagering promotion that gives back to our customers as a way of thanking them for wagering over $4.5 million on us last Saturday night,” said COO & GM of the Meadowlands Racetrack, Jason Settlemoir. “This seeded and guaranteed Pick 5 pool, along with free past performances hopefully provides bettors an additional incentive to wager on us.”
“We would like to thank the SBOA of NJ especially President Mark Ford and the SBOA Board for taking on this initiative with us,” Settlemoir added. “We were extremely pleased with on-track racing product and pool totals last Saturday and this promotion will hopefully keep the momentum going.”
The 20-Cent Pick 5 covers races 1-5 and features a low 15 percent takeout.
Live racing returns this Friday, January 8th at 6pm. Free pps courtesy of TrackMaster.com for the entire cards both Friday and Saturday can be found at PlayMeadowlands.com.
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Horse of the Year Azeri Pensioned
American Horse of the Year Azeri (Jade Hunter-Zodiac Miss {Aus}, by Ahonoora {GB}) has been pensioned from broodmare duty. The chestnut will instead become a lead horse, educating weanlings and yearlings at the Northern Horse Park in Japan according to a recent video posted by the park. The news was first reported by Daily Racing Form.
Bred by Allen E. Paulson, Azeri raced in his living trust’s colors to wins in 11 Grade I races, while picking up titles as Champion Older Mare in 2002/03/04 and a Horse of the Year title in 2002. She won three editions of the GI Apple Blossom H. (02-04) and two editions each of the GI Vanity H. (02/03) and GI Milady Breeders’ Cup H. in the same two years, respectively. In addition, she won the 2002 GI Breeders’ Cup Distaff, 2002 GI Santa Margarita Invitational H. as well as the 2004 GI Spinster S. and 2004 GI Go for Wand H. For the first several seasons of her career she was trained by Laura de Seroux before being transferred to D. Wayne Lukas for her 2004 campaign. In total the game chestnut earned $4,079,820 with 17 wins from 24 starts.
During the American portion of her broodmare career Azeri’s three foals were led by MGSW and GI Juddmonte Spinster third Wine Princess (Ghostzapper) and GSP Arienza (Giant’s Causeway). She was purchased for $2.25 million by Katsumi Yoshida at Keeneland November in 2009 and had another nine foals in Japan. From that bunch, the best were the MGSP Leukerbad (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}) and GSP Shirvanshah (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}). Overall, Azeri foaled nine winners from nine runners. Her latest produce is a Drefong filly of 2020.
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Free Triple Crown Fantasy Contest Now Online, Available To Fans
The following press release was distributed to media by Thoroughbred Racing Challenge:
The Thoroughbred Racing Challenge game is a free online horse racing fantasy contest tracking the 3-year-old horses, trainers and jockeys in their journey to the 2021 Triple Crown through our website at www.DerbyDuel2000.com The game is absolutely free with some great racing collectibles as prizes — plus all important bragging rights!
Until launching online in 2020, the Thoroughbred Racing Challenge contest was a private family game conducted for more than 20 years by the Ball family.
The game was the brainchild of John W. Ball Sr., creator of the Kentucky Derby, Breeders' Cup, and Jockey Trading Card collections in the 1990s. He has generously donated a number of trading card items from his personal collection as prizes.
“The 2020 Thoroughbred Racing Challenge was a tremendous success,” said TRC commissioner John Ball. “Our players really enjoyed the competition that ended with a nose decision as the top-2 players ended up with a difference of only $1.40 in virtual winnings after 30 races. Even the players finishing off the board enjoyed the contest which provided a fun distraction during a very difficult COVID19 plagued year.”
The Thoroughbred Racing Challenge game puts you in the position of being the best jockey in the nation — you will have your pick of the best horse to “ride” in any of the prep races anywhere in the country. Your choices will be graded with “virtual payoffs” of a “$2 Win-Place-Show” mythical wager on your choice in each of the races. Competition will begin in Louisiana at the Fairgrounds with the Lecomte Stakes on Jan. 16 at Fair Grounds and end in New York with the Belmont Stakes on Saturday June 5, 2021.
With 30 races in the competition (including races from Europe, the Middle East and Japan) there's plenty of time to see the contenders for the 2021 Triple Crown in action. Not a racing fan? No worries. Thoroughbred Racing Challenge's mission is to be easy, fun and educational about all things related to the “Sport of Kings.”
Every player in the 2021 Thoroughbred Racing Challenge will have the opportunity to win two of the first-ever Secretariat “Rookie” trading cards. During the approval process for the printing of the cards in 1989 Churchill Downs would not approve the design that featured the Kentucky Derby Festival logo. Packs of three cards (one each from the three series) were already printed and ready for distribution to the media and the retail supply chain as samples. A stop presses and change in the design was the order of the day back in January of 1989. Only recently were these promotional Kentucky Derby Festival cards discovered in storage for more than 30 years. Every player in the Thoroughbred Racing Challenge 2021 will have a chance to win the cards.
To enter the competition simply login at: www.DerbyDuel2000.com and signup on the game homepage. Players can also find additional information on the Thoroughbred Racing Challenge Facebook Group page located at https://www.facebook.com/ThoroughbredRacingChallenge/ and on Twitter @DerbyDuel2000. Join today to enter the Thoroughbred Racing Challenge and enjoy the ride.
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