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  • MakersMakers Senior Member
    edited October 2014
    With Stevens return one has to wonder how this will effect the mounts for super bug boy (DVD)..esp with Proctor
  • MakersMakers Senior Member
    edited October 2014
    11971482341984231343johnny_automatic_old_time_football_player.svg.thumb.png UAB@Arkansas

    Hawgs have to be excited, playing outside the SEC...facing a UAB defense that allowed 39 to WKU 34 to Fl Int......34 to MTSU.....Huge SOS difference and Arkie desperate....

    Arkie Team total of 44 well within reach

    College Football 158 Arkansas Over 44 -110* vs UAB
  • MikenyceMikenyce Senior Member
    edited October 2014
    Nice call the last few w college. Who do you like in the NFL?
  • MakersMakers Senior Member
    edited October 2014
    Mikenyce wrote: »
    Nice call the last few w college. Who do you like in the NFL?

    Thanks...

    NFL? A 50% capper at best so I play very few NFL games..Mostly totals when I do. Long term just an extremely tough proposition.

    You ready for BC?.....Wife is already with the menu ..Next to the first rounds of the NCAA our favorite 2 days of the year...:clap:
  • MakersMakers Senior Member
    edited October 2014
    Should anyone need complete PP's for Friday or Saturday, just let me know...

    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica]Historical Betting Notes

    -- Favoritesare 88 for 266 (33%) in the 30-year history of the event, while those that were odds on favorites (under even money) are 22 for 49 (43%). The 1990 Juvenile Fillies at Belmont produced the shortest price in Breeders’ Cup history when Meadow Star returned $2.40.
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    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica][FONT=Arial, Helvetica]-- Only one of the 36 horses that have gone off at 100-1 or higher have won when Arcanguescame from the other side of the pond to win the 1993 Classic as the biggest longshot in Breeders’ Cup history, returning $269.20.

    -- Inside Informationposted the largest margin of victory in Breeders’ Cup history when she walloped her competition by 13 ½ lengths in the 1995 Distaff at Belmont. Sixteen horses have won by the shortest margin of victory, a nose, including Mucho Macho Man in the 2013 Classic.

    -- Foreign based runnershave had tremendous success in Breeders’ Cup events. They’ve won 54 races overall, including a remarkable 43 of the 94 (45%) run on the grass. They’ve won seven on conventional dirt and four synthetic track races.

    -- Zenyatta, Beholder and Secret Circle are the only horses to ever win two different events.

    -- Goldikovais the only horse to ever win three Breeders’ Cup races.

    Horses that have won multiple Breeders’ Cup races

    Bayakoa– Distaff: 1989, 1990
    Beholder– Juvenile Fillies: 2012, Distaff: 2013
    Conduit– Turf: 2008, 2009
    Da Hoss– Mile: 1996, 1998
    Goldikova– Mile: 2008, 2009, 2010
    Groupie Doll– F&M Sprint: 2012, 2013
    High Chapparal– Turf: 2002, 2003 (dead heat w/Johar)
    Lure – Mile: 1992, 1993
    Midnight Lute– Sprint: 2007, 2008
    Miesque– Mile: 1987, 1988
    Mizdirection- Turf Sprint: 2012, 2013
    Ouija Board- F&M Turf: 2004, 2006
    Royal Delta- Distaff: 2011, 2012
    Secret Circle- Juvenile Sprint: 2011 Sprint: 2013
    Tiznow– Classic: 2000, 2001
    Wise Dan– Mile: 2012, 2013
    Zenyatta– Distaff: 2008, Classic: 2009
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  • MakersMakers Senior Member
    edited October 2014
    Shock Ruling: Iowa Judge Dismisses Case Against Jockey Caught With Five Buzzers

    Stewards at Prairie Meadows racetrack & casino in Iowa have reinstated the license of jockey Roberto Morales – found earlier this year to be in possession of five electrical devices and a handgun – after a District Court judge ruled the Iowa law permitting a warrantless search of his vehicle was unconstitutional.


    On June 5, 2014, acting on a tip that some Prairie Meadows jockeys may be using electrical devices – often called buzzers, batteries or machines – to stimulate their mounts in races, special agent Mark Ludwick of the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation conducted a warrantless search of four jockeys and their vehicles in the track’s parking lot.


    Nothing was found on the jockeys or in three of the vehicles, but Ludwick’s search of Morales’ car produced five batteries, a .25 caliber firearm and a prescription drug without a prescription.
    Morales was arrested and charged with three counts of prohibited acts for possessing three working and two non-working electrical devices, unlawful possession of a firearm and unlawful possession of prescription drugs. Stewards summarily suspended Morales the following day.


    The search was permitted under Iowa code section 99D.8A(5), which states: “The licensee or a holder of an occupational license shall consent to agents of the division of criminal investigation of the department of public safety or commission employees designated by the administrator of the commission to the search without a warrant of the licensee or holder’s person, personal property and effects, and premises which are located within the racetrack enclosure or adjacent facilities under control of the licensee to inspect or investigate for criminal violations of this chapter or violations of rules adopted by the commission.”


    Attorneys for Morales filed a motion to suppress the evidence and to dismiss the charges because they claimed the Iowa law requiring a licensee’s consent to search was unconstitutional. They also argued the search was not conducted, as specified by the code, “within the confines of a racetrack, stable shed, building or grounds, or within the confines of a stable, shed, building or grounds where a horse or dog is kept.” The search of Morales’ vehicle was conducted in a parking lot shared with the general public outside of the racetrack gates or stable area.


    Judge Carla Schemmel of Iowa’s Fifth District Agent wrote in her opinion that “Agent Ludwick required either a warrant or some independent individualized suspicion, if not probable cause, to search defendant’s person and personal effects. Because Agent Ludwick lacked both, the search of defendant in this case was unreasonable in violation of Article I, Section 8 of the Iowa Constitution and the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution.”


    Her decision is contrary to a 1985 U.S. District Court ruling in New Jersey in which jockey Bill Shoemaker and other riders lost a lawsuit against Hal Handel, then executive director of the New Jersey Racing Commission, over a random drug and alcohol testing program imposed by regulators.
    Saying it “received a wave of criticism from federal and state courts across the country,” the judge wrote that “few courts have followed the Shoemaker decision, and then only in areas involving security and public safety.”


    Judge Schemmel wrote that the Iowa law is not primarily concerned with public safety, but with integrity. “This provision exists solely to ensure that jockeys adhere to fair practices in what can only be described, at its best, as a gambling venture and source of public amusement. … The Court therefore declines to adopt Shoemaker’s adventurous conclusion that persons engaged in a heavily regulated business necessarily have a diminished expectation of privacy in their persons and personal effects.”


    The section of that code permitting warrantless searches of a jockey’s “person, personal property and effects,” she wrote, “is facially unconstitutional.
    “Any such slippery slope rationale to justify a warrantless search eviscerates the command of the Fourth Amendment and creates a subclass of Americans unworthy of its full protection based on their chosen occupation,” she wrote.


    As a result, evidence taken in that search was suppressed and may not be used in court.
    Judge Schemmel also ruled the state failed to prove that a racetrack parking lot is covered under the code as part of the “racetrack enclosure” or adjacent facility.”


    As a result of that interpretation of Iowa code, all counts against Morales were dismissed.
    Stewards thus ruled on Saturday: “Based upon Judge Schemmel’s ruling, Jockey Roberto Morales is hereby restored to good standing.”
  • MakersMakers Senior Member
    edited November 2014
    Two horses sell for $3M at Keeneland

    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica]Irish broodmare Aloof brought $3.9 million and a North American weanling record $3 million was paid for a daughter of Tapit, highlighting the second day of Keeneland's November Breeding Stock Sale

    [/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica]Florida-based farms paid the top prices on a Wednesday in which 11 horses sold for at least $1 million each. Mandy Pope's Whisper Hill Farm led the way with the sale's top price tag for the 5-year-old Aloof, a sister to French stakes winner Orator and half-sister to Irish stakes winner Meow.


    John and Leslie Malone of Ocala's Bridlewood Farm bought the weanling, topping the $2.7 million paid for a weanling colt at Keeneland's 2006 November sale. Besilu Stables had paid the previous North American record for a weanling filly at the November 2011 sale.
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  • MakersMakers Senior Member
    edited November 2014
    1197101605868097214Gioppino_slamdunk_outline.svg.thumb.png Tough sledding for the Lakers...... allowing a league worst 112 ppg, traveling to face defensive minded Memphis allowing a league low 87.... esp early on

    504 Memphis Grizzlies 1st Half -5½ -107* vs Los Angeles Lakers


    Plus fast starting Dallas at home .. versus the money making but slow starting Kings


    508 Dallas Mavericks 1st Half -4 -107* vs Sacramento Kings
  • MakersMakers Senior Member
    edited December 2014
    11971482341984231343johnny_automatic_old_time_football_player.svg.thumb.png SEC Championship



    The SEC is all about scheduling...(a conversation we have had many times)...Weighing Mo's schedule, not one win versus an SEC foe with a winning record.... versus Bama's road scoring (near 14 PPg under season average) even more glaring when considering a home scoring average of 46......versus the 23 away...


    Bama's offense and games for the most part away from Tusc. not all that impressive...

    Like Bama to win but like the 3 plus scores with the Dog..

    Mo +14.5
  • MakersMakers Senior Member
    edited December 2014
    Grambling plays Oregon State tonight....

    Significants?

    By most respected publications Grambling is the worst team in all NCAA...

    Ky. tops the list with .9876 rating..while Grambling sports a .0446

    OSU has yet to go over this season allowing 56 PPG

    Grambling's 47 ppg ranks last in scoring

    Total for game 116
  • MakersMakers Senior Member
    edited December 2014
    Makers wrote: »
    Grambling plays Oregon State tonight....

    Significants?

    By most respected publications Grambling is the worst team in all NCAA...Ranked #351

    Ky. tops the list with .9876 rating..while Grambling sports a .0446

    OSU has yet to go over this season allowing 56 PPG

    Grambling's 47 ppg ranks last in scoring

    Total for game 116


    Miss Valley is ranked #349 Lost to OSU 74-50 on 12.02

    Not that the above has great meaning..just interesting on a day that is lacking
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