Tattersalls Spring M Ixed Sale Preview
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Friday, June 3, 2016 Tattersalls Spring Mixed Sale Preview There is something for all at Sunday?s sale in the Meadowlands paddock. by Dave Briggs In today?s HRU Give North Jersey a chance page 3 For Pip to Stride page 4 Breaking Stride: Harnessing the Sky page 6 Morton Finder, dead at 82 page 8 Meadowlands player hits $1.4 million Pick 6 page 8 Charmed Life a millionaire page 10 Dave Briggs Sunday?s Tattersalls Spring Mixed Sale will start at noon. The Tattersalls Spring Mixed Sale set for Sunday (June 5) in the paddock at the Meadowlands Racetrack is shaping up to be ?a very workmanlike sale. We have horses that really should fit every jurisdiction,? sale manager David Reid said Thursday. More than 100 standardbreds ? about 80 in the main catalogue minus the outs, plus 22 in the supplement ? are expected to go through the ring beginning at noon, sharp. Full sale details can be found @ TattersallsRedMile.com Main catalogue (PDF) available here Supplemental catalogue (PDF) available here Sortable roster available here Outs list available here Updated race lists available here A training session for the two-year-olds will be held on Saturday (June 4) after the baby races and will be available for viewing on playmeadowlands.com. ?The horses that are racing well are going to get along great,? said Northwood Bloodstock?s Bob Boni who will have Harness Racing Update | 1 | June 3, 2016 Tattersalls continued a consignment of some 30 horses at the sale. ?The ones that ?We have several green three-year-olds that are currently are racing well, a mare like Capela, for argument?s sake, racing and they have a lot of conditions left,? Reid said. ?We number 79, she?s raced well all year. She shows she can win also have the well-bred filly Better Said (hip 214, Well on a half. She shows she can race anywhere. Nine starts, six Said? Ultimate Bet). She just won her last start at Yonkers in wins. You?re not going to get much better than that. She?s :53.2.? made $76,000 and she?s qualified and racing. That?s what Boni said, ?it?s not a tricky formula. The ones that are racing people are going to want. We?ve got a number of others that reasonably competitively and look reasonably good, they?re are racing. Some are racing and do have some breeding going to perform okay.? value. Another mare that?s raced really well at Yonkers her Though, he said he wishes more people racing in smaller last few starts and has a lower record now is Brown Brinny, jurisdictions took a harder look at the catalogue and number 78. So, those two come back to back.? committed to coming to the sale. Reid will have the largest consignment at the sale through ?I wish some people that race away from the major tracks his company Preferred Equine Marketing, which will send would do themselves justice to come to these sales because some 80 horses through the ring. He pointed out a trio of they?re going to find horses that might be undervalued for two-year-old prospects and two of them ? Cerisier (hip 8) here, that don?t fit here, but would be very good in other and Chilma (9) ? have already baby-raced, with Cerisier areas,? Boni said. winning his baby race on Wednesday at Pocono. Another two-year-old Preferred is selling is a highly-touted Well Said Horsemen attending the sale, be advised that there is a colt out of Beachy Lady named Summer Side (hip 4). Hot 97 hip hop concert Sunday evening at 6:30 p.m. at Metlife Stadium near the Meadowlands paddock. Plan Preferred is also selling three-year-old trotting colt accordingly. Coughlin (hip 55, Credit Winner? Kelly Hall) ? a winner of the New York Excelsior Series last Sunday (May 29) at Tioga Downs in a career best 1:54.4 ? and three-year-old trotting filly Just For Today (hop 61, Credit Winner - Brandnewgirlfriend), who was also a dominant New York Excelsior winner last Sunday at Tioga. Harness Racing Update | 2 | June 3, 2016 Give North Jersey a chance by Dave Little My wife sends me emails from time to time of breaking and naturally, business boomed for years. That is, until the news stories. A shooting here, corruption there, a fire last decade or so when Pennsylvania, Delaware, New York somewhere, Donald Trump said something in a politically and now Maryland got into the casino business as well. incorrect way to infuriate some group, and of course, Hillary Truth be told, I?m still an AC customer. I go down with my Clinton?s never-ending string of email horror stories. friends for a long weekend once or twice a year, even though After reading another of these emails she sent me last the casinos don?t want me. All of the race books I frequented Friday, it got me thinking: Is it really possible that the casino in years past are all gone. I trekked to the Borgata during my gaming measure in Northern New Jersey WON?T pass. last visit to play the ponies. The place was gorgeous. Couldn?t Because if it doesn?t, that would be a shame. understand why all of the other hotels had no horses. Until I The headline from the story, sent out May 27 from the asked one of the tellers, who said: ?The profit margin website NorthJersey.com read ?Christie signs financial rescue operating a race book just isn?t big enough.? Oh, well. package for Atlantic City.? It should have come as no shock when revenues and Haven?t we been down this road before? interest in AC floated away like a barge in the Atlantic Ocean as the neighboring states had gleaming new structures that Plummeting hotel revenues, one-third of its casinos having were much closer to where the customer lived. If you were in closed in 2014 and dwindling property values once again Philadelphia, there was no longer any need for you to drive have AC on the brink of default. And once again, the city to AC if you wanted some action for an evening. You simply needs help to continue conducting its business as usual. drove to Parx or Harrah?s Philadelphia. According to the article, written by Dustin Racioppi and The casino business is like any other. If you provide a more Salvador Rizzo, Christie signed into law a pair of bills giving customer-friendly environment than the other guy and the Atlantic City five months to come up with a plan to reform its trip is 30-60 minutes shorter, you go there to get your action. finances over the next five years. I realize there is already a proliferation of casino Can anybody tell me why we can expect a different opportunities for the consumer, but Northern New Jersey outcome as compared to what we?ve seen in the five years would be a new horizon. Bergen County is one of the leading up to this point? If Atlantic City was still a big-time wealthiest in the country based on its median estimated destination for resort-loving gamblers, would we even be income of $82,105 (according to realtor.com). Atlantic having this discussion? County?s is a little over $57,000. Unfortunately, that?s now a The story read: ?After years of declining gaming revenues, lot of their fan base. Why? Because people aren?t traveling as falling real estate values, eroded property tax collections, much to get their action. How do we know this? Atlantic and the closure of four of its 12 casinos in 2014, the city is in City?s steady fall from grace. dire economic straits ? and even with Christie?s signature on Hopefully, they?ll be enough support as summer turns to a financial rescue package, experts say it may not be able to fall for the gaming measure to pass. Possible sites for avoid a default on its debt, which stands at more than $400 Northern New Jersey casinos include the Meadowlands and million.? Jersey City. People are at times critical of the racing at the Now, I?m no political or financial genius, but AC has a New Big M, yet, if they had only a small portion of possible casino Jersey state monopoly on casino gaming and the town is revenues, they?d be able to once again offer purses like they $400 million in the hole! Give me a break! did in generations past. The playing field would be level. And while you?re at it, give North Jersey a chance. Pennsylvania and New York would then have to battle the Garden State for racehorses and top sires. As we draw closer to the presidential election in November, Garden State residents will have another huge decision to Let?s hope my wife doesn?t send me an email with the make once they close the curtain in the voting booth: Vote headline ?Thumbs Down for North Jersey Casinos? shortly ?yes? or ?no? to casino gaming. I suppose Atlantic County after Election Day. Atlantic City had its chance. Let someone residents aren?t too big on the idea, as yes, if the measure else have a shot. passes, there will be even more troubled times ahead for Atlantic City residents and politicians. But they?ve had their chance. The city was supposed to be re-invigorated when it got casino gaming in the late 1970s, Harness Racing Update | 3 | June 3, 2016 From Pip to Stride It?s been an interesting journey from precocious foal to top New Jersey Sires Stakes filly for Blue Moon Stride.