Posted by: admin on Monday, May 25, 2009 - 08:42 PM
Oregon Breeding
There's still time to book your mare to any number of Oregon stallions (see stallion roster on sidebar left)...you wouldn't want to miss out on a scene like this next year!
This is a brand new foal by Cresta Powered out of Meet Me at Mary's.
Posted by: admin on Monday, May 25, 2009 - 08:15 AM
Miscellaneous
Looks like Publishers Clearing House showed up at Joe Crispin's door! A bunch of balloons, a bouquet of flowers, and most importantly, a jumbo check for...
$1000.
Wish it'd been the ten million dollar one! Oh well. Congrats anyway to Joe. Click below to read the news snippet in The Columbian...
Posted by: admin on Tuesday, May 19, 2009 - 06:38 PM
Miscellaneous
Today's edition of the Spokesman-Review has a great feature on Jerry Taketa. A snippet:
“I don’t know if I flew 1 foot, 2 feet or 10 feet,” Taketa told Weaver. “When you’re going 30-35 miles an hour and a horse ducks out from under you, it’s just like you’re sitting next to me with no seat belt on and we’re going down the freeway; I slam on my brakes and swing my steering wheel to the right at the same time.
“Where are you going?”
As Weaver wrote: To the hospital or the morgue.
Why not, after all, he rode after breaking a foot in three places, a wrist, six ribs (not all in the same spill), a collarbone twice, his nose and a thumb. Plus, he was only 45 at the time when he hit the Playfair dirt.
When Taketa’s doctor learned he resumed racing, he said to Taketa’s wife, Lynn, “That horse must have stepped on his head, too.”
Posted by: admin on Saturday, May 16, 2009 - 10:53 PM
Miscellaneous
The Oregonian's Jon Canzano visits a Portland-area Off-track Betting venue and finds a lively crowd enjoying Saturday's race:
Horse racing? In trouble? Not in the hearts of those with $2 on the race. Because even as this sport has work to do to keep horses safe, and improve it's standing among sports fans, and to ensure peripheral fans don't tune out, it was pretty much Preakness-palooza here on Saturday.
Musket Man, the third-place finisher in the Kentucky Derby, enters a wide open Preakness field on Saturday with as good a chance to win as any of the other contenders.
The horse that won the Illinois Derby is co-owned by former Jefferson High School athletic director and coach Vic Carlson.
Posted by: admin on Tuesday, May 12, 2009 - 12:54 PM
Oregon Racing
OREGON RACING COMMISSION
May 21, 2009
The Oregon Racing Commission will meet Thursday, May 21, 2009 at 1:30 pm in Room 1A of the Portland State
Office Building located at 800 NE Oregon Street, Portland, OR.
COMMISSION MEETING AGENDA
APPROVALS:
1. April 16, 2009 Meeting Minutes
2. Allocation of Hub Funds for 09 -11 Biennium
3. Summer Race Meet Officials, Take Outs, and Bute & Lasix
a. Eastern Oregon Livestock Show b. Josephine County Fair
c. Crooked River Roundup d. Tillamook County Fair
4. The Racing Channel, Inc. 2009-2010 Application for Multi-Jurisdictional Simulcasting and
Interactive Wagering Totalizator Hub License
5. ODS Technologies, L.P. dba TVG 2009-2010 Application for Multi-Jurisdictional
Simulcasting and Interactive Wagering Totalizator Hub License
6. XpressBet, Inc. 2009-2010 Application for Multi-Jurisdictional Simulcasting and Interactive
Wagering Totalizator Hub License
7. Youbet.com, Inc. 2009-2010 Application for Multi-Jurisdictional Simulcasting and Interactive
Wagering Totalizator Hub License
8. eBet Technologies,Inc. 2009-2010 Application for Multi-Jurisdictional Simulcasting and
Interactive Wagering Totalizator Hub License
OLD BUSINESS:
9. Legislative Update
a. Senate Bill 198 b. House Bill 3099 c. House Bill 5044
10. Sub-Committee Update Reports
a. Advanced Deposit Wagering and Multi-Jurisdictional Hubs
b. Best Practices
c. Budget and Hub Funds
d. Medication & Horse Welfare
NEW BUSINESS:
CONTESTED CASES:
11. Action on the Proposed Order for John L. Snow
12. Action on Proposed Order for Gregory R. Goosby
13. Action on Final Order by Default for Robert L. Lawrence
14. Action on Final Order for Kevin T. King
15. Presentation of Oral Arguments on Exceptions Filed by Michael Boag to the ALJ’s Proposed
Order for Mr. Boag
INFORMATIONAL MATERIALS AND APPROVALS:
16. Confirmation of Next Commission Meeting – June 18, 2009
RULES:
OTHER BUSINESS AS MAY PROPERLY COME BEFORE THE COMMISSION:
Magna Entertainment Corp. chairman Frank Stronach criticized certain hedge-fund investors for putting "unwarranted" pressure on the bankrupt racetrack company's parent entity, suggesting May 8 that those antagonists could start their own company if they didn't like what they saw.
Portland Meadows video slots bill surfaces, again
by Janie Har, The Oregonian
Monday April 06, 2009, 2:58 PM
On the day The Oregonian reported Gov. Ted Kulongoski is open to a mega-casino in Portland, state lawmakers took up a perennial request to increase the number of lottery terminals in the city's only racetrack.
Senate Bill 779 would increase the number of slots machines allowed at Portland Meadows from 10 to 40. Lobbyists for the Warm Springs and the Grand Ronde -- the two tribes with casinos closest to Portland -- testified in opposition to the bill on Monday.
Portland Meadows has pushed for years to score more terminals, using its lobbying muscle to get the bill before legislators. Proponents arguing the horse track needs the machines to attract customers.
The Senate Business Committee didn't move the bill on Monday.
"That bill may come back, it may not," said committee chairman for the day, Sen. Bruce Starr, R-Hillsboro. "We'll see what happens with it."
What would Seabiscuit think?
-Janie Har; janiehar@news.oregonian.com
Carlos Moreno has enjoyed a lot of success at Portland Meadows, but the going has been tougher at Emerald Downs, where the 54-year-old trainer has won with only 17 of his 195 starters. His fortunes took a turn for the better Sunday, however, when his Kruger Park zipped to a front-running victory in the $30,000 Seattle Handicap, beating a stellar field of older handicap stars with designs on the Longacres Mile later this summer. It was Moreno's first stakes victory at Emerald Downs.
The victory was particularly sweet because Moreno and his wife, Maria, claimed Kruger Park for $50,000 out of his most recent start March 22 at Santa Anita. Moreno said he had scouted out Kruger Park and at one point offered Southern California-based trainer Patrick Gallagher $70,000 for the 5-year-old gelding. Gallagher and Kruger Park's owners declined, Moreno said, but a month later, the horse was entered for $50,000 and claim slips went flying. Moreno said he won a four-way shake for Kruger Park, a gray son of Johannesburg who had done most of his racing on turf.
"I got pure lucky," Moreno said.
Now, he and his wife have a Mile contender.
"He's got an extra gear; that's what you look for in a racehorse," Moreno said after Kruger Park dispatched eight rivals in the Seattle Handicap, running six furlongs in 1:08.60.
Moreno figures Kruger Park can win in a variety of ways; he doesn't need the lead.
"He's better from off the pace," he said, pointing to several stalking trips on the hillside turf course at Santa Anita. "When I looked at the horse, I said he'll be a great miler."
