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By Corey Kilgannon/New York Times/February 2008
The green façade of the Off-Track Betting parlor is a familiar presence on New York City’s storefront landscape. In addition to being wagering spots, the 61 branches, 8 restaurant locations and 3 theater-style betting centers across the city also serve as unofficial social clubs for core groups of regulars, with each branch reflecting the makeup of the neighborhood.
It is an ever-narrowing slice of New York that still belongs to the hustler and the old-timer. Soon it may be extinct, with the board overseeing city betting parlors having voted on Tuesday to shut them down by mid-June.
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has pushed for the closing, which is being contested by officials that oversee off-track betting for New York State. The mayor believes the city is being shortchanged by Off-Track Betting because of state regulations the agency must follow.
By noon the narrow storefront branch on Steinway Street in Astoria, Queens — one of the two branches scheduled to close first (the other is on Hylan Boulevard in New Dorp on Staten Island) — is typically packed with local men speaking Greek and reading The New York Post.
The regulars show up, sip coffee, scribble on racing forms and step up to the betting windows or computerized kiosks to place their bets. With a backdrop of television screens showing simulcasts of races across the country, the customers chat and joke until post time and then spend a minute screaming at a TV set together. With each race, the floor gets littered with a fresh batch of failed betting slips.
Many bettors said they were skeptical that O.T.B. would truly shut down in the city, calling the board’s vote a bluff to force state officials to address problems in the betting operation. Some said they would probably stop betting the horses, while others said they would wager at Aqueduct or Belmont racetracks, or call a bookmaker, or place bets by phone.
We’d like to hear from the gamblers (and the nongamblers and the antigamblers) out there about what this means for them. Email us!SOUTHEAST/SCAT DADDY TAKES EXCITING BLANKET FINISH IN FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH – James Scatuorchio and Michael Tabor’s Scat Daddy returned to a prominent spot among contenders for the 133rd running of the Kentucky Derby presented by Yum! Brands (Grade I) on May 5 when he wore down William Currin and Alvin Eisman’s pacesetting Stormello to win Saturday’s $350,000 Fountain of Youth (GII) in a four-horse blanket finish at Gulfstream Park.
Scat Daddy nipped Stormello by a nose, while Elizabeth Valando’s favored Nobiz Like Shobiz, who had beaten the winner in the Holy Bull (GIII), finished a half-length back in third and John Murphy Sr.’s Adore the Gold, winner of the Swale (GII), was fourth. A length covered the top four finishers as Scat Daddy covered 1 1/8 miles over a “fast” track in 1:49.11.
The victory was one of five on the day at Gulfstream Park for trainer Todd Pletcher, who saw Scat Daddy defeat the highly regarded Nobiz Like Shobiz for the second time in three career meetings. The winner had turned back that rival in last fall’s Champagne (GI) at Belmont Park, but finished third to Nobiz Like Shobiz in the Holy Bull in the first start of the year for both colts. Pletcher felt the Gulfstream track displayed a bias toward horses near the rail during Saturday’s races, and felt that made Scat Daddy’s race, in which he was outside of horses most of the way, all the more impressive.
“Scat Daddy overcame a lot to wear down a nice group of horses,” Pletcher said. “I can’t speak to anyone else’s horses, but I didn’t feel like our horse got the respect he deserved coming into the race.”
The loss by Nobiz Like Shobiz, the 3-5 favorite in the Fountain of Youth, was his second in five races. Trainer Barclay Tagg, who saddled Funny Cide to win the 2003 Kentucky Derby, said the son of Albert the Great came out of the race well, but immaturity cost his colt.
“He blew the first turn and then tried to duck in and slipped back on the other turn,” said Tagg. “He lost about a length each time and then he gets beat only a half a length. I’m disappointed we lost, but I don’t feel bad about the horse. We just have to try and get him out of his shenanigans soon.”
Pletcher said that Scat Daddy would likely stay at Gulfstream Park to run in the $1 million Florida Derby (GI), which would be his final prep for the Kentucky Derby. Tagg expects Nobiz Like Shobiz to make the $750,000 Wood Memorial (GI) at Aqueduct on April 7 his final prep for the “Run for the Roses.”
Meanwhile, trainer Mike Gorham said that Adore the Gold came out of the Fountain of Youth in good shape and he was pleased with the colt’s effort from the outside post in his first un at 1 1/8 miles.
"We’re not too disappointed,” said Gorham. “To get beat only a length is no disgrace.”
Gorham said Adore the Gold would likely remain at Gulfstream to run in the Florida Derby.
Hutcheson Goes To King Of The Roxy – On a day in which trainer Todd Pletcher won five races at Gulfstream Park, it was fitting that the two-time Eclipse Award-winning trainer notched his fifth consecutive victory in the $150,000 Hutcheson (GII).
Pletcher continued his mastery of the 7 ½-furlong race with Team Valor’s King of the Roxy, an Ohio-bred son of Littlexpectations who won the Hutcheson in his first outing since an eighth-place finish behind champion Street Sense in last fall’s $2 million Bessemer Trust Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (GI).
Pletcher also finished third with Out of Gwedda, while the Ken McPeek-trained Bold Start split the Pletcher duo with a runner-up finish.
Allowance Winners Impress – The Fountain of Youth undercard also saw a pair of strong performances in allowance races by Centennial Farm’s Chelokee and Charles Wacker III’s Deadly Dealer – colts that could become factors on the road to the Kentucky Derby.
Chelokee, a son of Cherokee Run trained by Michael Matz, overcame traffic problems to edge For You Reppo by a half-length in a 1 1/8-mile allowance race. Sightseeing finished third, a length behind the runner-up.
The winner covered the distance under jockey Edgar Prado in 1:49.64.
Matz saddled Lael Stable’s Barbaro to win the 2006 Kentucky Derby.
Deadly Dealer, a son of Concerto, led throughout to win a 7 ½-furlong allowance race by seven lengths. Boogie Boggs finished second and Frosty Secret was third. John Velazquez rode the winner, one of five on the day for trainer Todd Pletcher.
Street Sense Sharp In Sunday Work – James Tafel’s homebred Street Sense, the champion 2-year-old of 2006 following his record-smashing 10-length victory in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile at Churchill Downs, continued to train sharply toward his 2007 debut as he worked a fast half-mile on Sunday at Palm Meadows.
The Carl Nafzger-trained son of Street Cry breezed the distance over a “fast” track in :47 – a move that was the second fastest of 39 at the distance. The day’s best move belonged to Emirates Airline Breeders’ Cup Distaff (GI) winner Round Pond, who was timed in :46.
Street Sense is expected to make his 3-year-old debut in either the $250,000 Tampa Bay Derby (GIII) at Tampa Bay Downs on March 17 or the $100,000 Rushaway over Polytrack at Turfway Park a week later.
WEST/GREAT HUNTER RALLIES TO WIN ROBERT B. LEWIS IN ’07 DEBUT – J. Paul Reddam’s Great Hunter, racing for the first time since a third-place finish to Street Sense in the Bessemer Trust Breeders’ Cup Juvenile, rallied from eighth to win Saturday’s $200,000 Robert B. Lewis Stakes (GII) at Santa Anita.
Corey Nakatani guided Great Hunter to a 1 ¼-length win over the Todd Pletcher-trained Sam P., while Saint Paul, trained by three-time Kentucky Derby-winner Bob Baffert, finished third. The winner covered 1 1/16 miles over a “fast” track in 1:42.89.
Trainer Doug O’Neill saddled the winner, who is one of five Kentucky Derby hopefuls in his care. O’Neill has never saddled a horse in the famed race at Churchill Downs.
“I’m just so excited, not having been in this position ever,” O’Neill said. “You never know what to expect from a horse that’s had such a good campaign as a 2-year-old, as far as getting next year started, but it couldn’t have worked out better.”
Great Hunter notched his most significant victory last fall in the Lane’s End Breeders’ Futurity (GI) at Keeneland, and O’Neill said the colt would return to the Lexington, Ky. track and its Polytrack surface to make his final Kentucky Derby prep in the Toyota Blue Grass Stakes (GI) on April 14.
Reddam also owns two other Kentucky Derby contenders that are in O’Neill’s care. Liquidity is scheduled to run next week in the $600,000 Louisiana Derby (GII) at the Fair Grounds, while Notional is scheduled to make the Florida Derby his final Kentucky Derby prep.
O’Neill also trains Cobalt Blue, a promising colt owned by entertainer and former talk show host Merv Griffin. Cobalt Blue is scheduled to run in the San Felipe (GII) on March 17 at Santa Anita.
MIDWEST/CATMAN RUNNING NOTCHES BATTAGLIA UPSET – Joe Harris’ Catman Running rallied from just off the pace to score a 1 ¾-length victory over favored Joe Got Even in Saturday’s $100,000 John Battaglia Memorial at Turfway Park.
Willie Martinez rode the winner, who covered the distance for trainer Eric Reed in 1:45.42 over the Northern Kentucky track’s Polytrack surface. Reed said the win probably earned the son of Tactical Cat a start in Turfway’s major Kentucky Derby prep, the Lane’s End Stakes (GII) on March 24.
“He’s been kind of a six-foot tall 12-year-old,” said Reed. “Each time we run him, he gets a little better.”
Joe Got Even was hampered by traffic problems in the stretch that forced jockey Miguel Mena to swing the son of Stephen Got Even off the rail and to the outside.
CENTRAL/CIRCULAR QUAY FAVORED IN LOUISIANA DERBY – Michael and Doreen Tabor’s Circular Quay, winner of the Hopeful (GI) and a troubled fifth in the Risen Star (GII), heads the prospective field for Saturday’s $600,000-added Louisiana Derby at the Fair Grounds.
The Todd Pletcher-trained son of 1995 Kentucky Derby winner Thunder Gulch drew the rail post when a field of eight 3-year-olds was entered for the 94th running of the New Orleans track’s signature race. The 1 1/16-mile Louisiana Derby is the centerpiece of a Fair Grounds racing program that includes five stakes events that carry total purses of $2.1 million.
Circular Quay was installed as the 9-5 morning line favorite and will be ridden by two-time Eclipse Award-winning jockey John Velazquez.
Pletcher will also saddle Soaring By in the Louisiana Derby. Edgar Prado will ride the son of Deputy Minister, who is listed as an 8-1 risk in the morning line.
Owner J. Paul Reddam and trainer Doug O’Neill, who won the Risen Star with Notional, will try to win Saturday’s race with another contender. They will be represented by Liquidity, the runner-up to the highly regarded Ravel in the Sham (GIII) at Santa Anita. Corey Nakatani will ride Liquidity, the 7-2 second choice, from post five.
The Louisiana Derby field also includes Imawildandcrazyguy and Zanjero, the 2-3 finishers in the Risen Star. The latter, who is trained by Steve Asmussen and will be ridden by Garrett Gomez, is the 4-1 third choice in Saturday’s race.
Making his 3-year-old debut in the Louisiana Derby is Birdbirdistheword, the Ken McPeek-trained winner of the $1 million Delta Jackpot (GIII) at Louisiana’s Delta Downs in December. Robby Albarado will be in the saddle aboard Birdbirdistheword (6-1).
B. Wayne Hughes’ Ketchikan (8-1), an easy allowance winner on Feb. 16, and Joseph Lacombe’s Slew’s Tizzy (15-1), who lost his rider when he encountered traffic problems developed in upper stretch in the Risen Star, complete the Louisiana Derby cast.
EAST/CALL ME CLASH ROLLS IN HORATIUS – Gerard Artz’s Call Me Class jumped to the lead shortly after the break and cruised to a three-length victory in Saturday’s $90,000 Horatius Stakes at Laurel Park.
The Scott Lake-trained winner, who was ridden by Jeremy Rose, covered six furlongs in 1:10.49 as he defeated Casey Doon. Heart Throbbin’ finished third.
Saratoga Lulaby and Alruncojump, members of an entry trained by John Rigattieri that went off as the 3-5 favorite, finished fifth and sixth, respectively, in the six-horse field.
POOL 2 OF 2007 KENTUCKY DERBY FUTURE WAGER SET FOR NEXT WEEKEND – The second of three pools of Churchill Downs’ 2007 Kentucky Derby Future Wager (“KDFW”) is set for its four-day run March 8-11.
Wagering interests for the Derby Future pool and the accompanying Kentucky Oaks Future Wager will be announced on Tuesday, March 6, with wagering in the four-day pool scheduled to open at noon (all times Eastern) on Thursday, March 8. Betting on the Kentucky Derby Future Wager will conclude on Sunday, March 11 at 6 p.m.
The mutuel field, which included all 3-year-old Thoroughbreds other than the 23 individual wagering interests in the pool, closed as the 7-2 favorite in the year’s first Kentucky Derby Future pool, which was conducted from Feb. 8-11. Nobiz Like Shobiz was the favored individual horse and closed at odds of 8-1.
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