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Keith Gee Memorial sees Field of 10 entries

Keith Gee Memorial sees Field of 10 entries

Sunday 31st would see a total of 10 entries in the Keith Gee Memorial race named in memory of the late Keith Gee, who was the former executive director of the Louisiana Horsemen’s Benevolent Protective Association. Each horse should be three years and will be hoping to scoop the $50,000 prize.

The event attracts some notable entries including Sheikh of Sheikh owned by Abdulla Saeed Almaddah, who will be on the verge of taking his form to a better start after he ranked third during the Grade III $1000,000 Hutcheson Stakes held at Gulfstream Park in January 2nd.

Twirling Cinnamon trained by Brad Cox is another contender at the event. Cinnamon also comes off a late defeat at the $51,000 Sugar Bowl staged on a Fair Ground’s main course. He has however made some tremendous comeback in different classes having narrowly won at the Indian Grounds back in October.

Dell Ridge Farm’s Tiznoble and Dede McGehee’s Dolphus who are both trained by Joe Sharp are other notable rivals at the event. Dolphus has made an outstanding comeback after making a mile cross-entry under the command of jockey Brian Hernandez Jr. to finish off with a 70-yard distance. Tiznoble too has been in excellent form having won the Churchill Downs on November 1st in a Fair Ground.

The son of Tiznow came in fifth during the $75,000 Pulpit Stakes at Gulfstream Park West on November 28 and had since worked hard to improve his form. Among his trials is the five furlongs on the 17th day of January.

The sons of Kitten’s Joy will be on stage too as he comes off the two victories of the $75,000 from Bill Mott. He has been preparing for the event at Gulfstream Park. The four-time winner of the Fair Grounds in the last 13 months Miguel Mena will be picking the post six from the mount.

Other entries in the event include; Gotsomemojo (Mitchell Murrill, post seven), One Mean Man (Colby Hernandez, post four), Cashel Rock (Florent Geroux, post two), Wild Man (Shaun Bridgmohan, post five) and Mending Fences (Richard Eramia, rail).

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£1 Million up for grabs at Colossus Bets

£1 Million up for grabs at Colossus Bets

Good news have emerged for Colossus Bets clients. Apparently, the firm claimed that it has initiated one of the biggest free-to-play predictor games going by the name FreePlay6 which comes along with a weekly jackpot worth £1 million.

The same aspects and tactics used at the Super 6 game of Sky will be incorporated here. Nonetheless, the new FreePlay6 comes with a unique feature of cash-out. This feature is crucial for player as they will be entitled to have cash profits on ‘live’ free tickets the whole weekend.

Apparently, this game involves players coming up with six correct scores for a total of six English Premier League games. Players can have a chance to play this game on the company’s Colossisbets.com B2C site which has partnered with B2B to make the reality happen in the next couple of weeks. This partnership stipulates that the B2B product will be integrated at the Colossus B2B consoles giving partners the free play tickets which will be from Colossus Bets’ multi-sports pools in which various sections will be entitled to clients.

The CEO as well as the founder of Colossus Bets Bernard Marantelli claimed that the main function and the fundamental aspect of the newly initiated free to play game will be accumulating all predictor games along the so called the sword in a balance as well of its functionality.

The game comes along with a leg by leg form of money cash out, amazing award bonus for 4 or 5 correct predictions and grouped scores that will be crucial for players to identify their stand mode when the game is in progress as well as when teams finds the back of the net. The incorporation of the win-win CRM tool is fundamental for rewarding clients via the social media.

The CEO also added that the new game will award their partners B2B with the required unparallel tool which will reactivate and bring in more clients. New client will be acquired in a soft entry way with old clients being reactivated as well as awarding the existing clients. This will be deemed as the biggest CRM tool in future.

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Five College Basketball courts to be

Five College Basketball courts to be

For a NBA fanatic, there are venues which are a must attend in each season. This has also happened when it comes to NCAA. The following are the five venues college basketball fan must attend.

Carrier Dome

The Carrier Dome is one of the anticipated venues to be. The court will have an audience of 40,000 and this may exceed when rival teams such as Georgetown comes for a clash. The venue was constructed and opened in 1980 and has since then played host to a number of teams as well as professional players. The venue has been on top of the game in matters concerning basketball venues for years and is the place to breed orange for a fan.

Hinkle Fieldhouse

The Hinkle Fieldhouse is the home of Butler Bulldogs. The venue has played host to various events including the championship games for the movie ‘Hoosiers’ and is found at the centre of crazy basketballers. The venue produced one of the best college basketball best players Dawg Pound.

The Palestra

The venue has been nicknamed ‘The Cathedral of College Basketball’ and is the home for Penn Quakers. The venue has hosted more college basketball games than any team. It was built in 1927. The venue has played host to top five teams in Philadelphia namely; Villanova, La Salle, Temple, St. Joseph’s and Penn.

McKale Center

The McKale Center was constructed in 1973 and since then it has been home for Arizona Wildcats. Since time in memorial, the home team has scooped the conference championship on five different occasions and has reached the Final Four in four different seasons.

UD Arena

The UD Arena has been famous in hosting various matches. It was the main hosting venue during the NCAA tournament in 2001. This was the initial year for the venue to host such a competition. In essence, all the initial four games of 2001 NCAA Tournament was held at UD Arena. For those fans who like making noise and supporting their team in much vigor, UD Arena is the place to be.

There are your five basketball venues that one has to attend and enjoy basketball.

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Montevideo & Kiev plays host for new offices for BetConstruct

Montevideo & Kiev plays host for new offices for BetConstruct

Apart from bringing the much needed fun and gaming surrounding to their clients, many betting firms operate under one main agenda of maximizing its incomes. There are several ways in which a company can incorporate in attempt to exploit its jurisdictions and bring in more revenue. For a firm to have many clients, its services must be of higher quality. This will come hand in hand by the popularity in which the company at stake has and the extent to which it has crossed borders in advertising its products and services.

The higher the popularity rates the higher the rate into which clients will come knocking. This in turn will increase the activities undertaken under the firm’s roof and as it goes, more transactions will be made and hence maximization of profits will be eminent. A number of companies have gone beyond borders and opened offices oversee to oversee the popularity growth as well as attract more clients.

One such firm is the BetConstruct. The top European sports betting technology provider has made it public that they have opened new offices in two different continents. One will be based in European nation of Ukraine in the capital city Kiev. The other office is based in South America in the Uruguay city of Montevideo. This is the ideal time for BetConstruct as it tries to expand its areas of jurisdiction to Eastern Europe as well as Latin America.

The main purpose of these newly initiated offices will be providing basic assistance to BetConstruct with commercial operations which are aimed at developing a local based fan base for service provision as well as account management.

In a statement, the BetConstruct’s CEO Vahe Baloulian claimed that their objective of being close to their clients as well as expanding their markets has been crucial for the opening of the Latin America based office. Consequently, his firm was not looking down to the European market and this prompted it in establishing a new office on the Eastern part of Europe.

Currently, the Armenian based company has its headquarters in London. There are other offices in different continents such as Malta, South Africa, Latvia, Peru, Cyprus as well as Los Angeles.

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Match-fixing not the reason behind Dr Janet Young, Kerryn Pratt and Peter Armstrong board resignation

Match-fixing not the reason behind Dr Janet Young, Kerryn Pratt and Peter Armstrong board resignation

According to reports from the Tennis Australia, the resignation of its three board members was by any chance related to some match-fixing scandals. Kerryn Pratt, Peter Armstrong and Dr. Janet Young submitted their resignation letters last Friday which would be effectual right away.

Dr Young who was enrolled into the board in 2008 was a member of the team that won the Australian Fed Cup in two consecutive years of 1973 and 1974. Pratt on the other side joined Tennis Australia in 2013. Pratt was in 1979 a semi finalist in the Australian Open Women doubles. She also worked as a commentator and selector of the Fed Cup. Later between 1991 and 1995, she served in the Australian Sports Commission board. Armstrong, a businessman in Australia was indulged as a board member alongside Pratt in 2013.

It is yet to come to the conscience of many following the submission of resignation letters y the three board members. When asked to reveal more information as to why this happened, TA was adamant and only pointed out that the quitting of the three was not related to any match-fixing scam. This was not the right time to quit the post of the three members as the TA was preparing for the upcoming first grand slam tournament of 2016, the Australian Open.

Nonetheless, the TA president Steve Healy had no option but to thank the three for their dedication and effort from the time they were enrolled as board members to their resignation. He claimed that Kerryn, Janet and Peter have made substantial contributions to TA as well as the tennis sport at large for a number of years. He concluded by saying that the TA was grateful for the endurance and wished all the best in their future lives.

The TA will have to consult the nomination committee for the nominees for the vacant three posts a process which has been scheduled to take place before the board meeting in March.

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LONGINES Worlds Best Racehorse honor awarded to the American Pharaoh

LONGINES Worlds Best Racehorse honor awarded to the American Pharaoh

It is said that hard work will always pay. In most cases achieving an objective is not enough to be deemed as the best of the best. Maintaining that objective and never subsiding in any way is fundamental for the glorious trend each individual will die to have. In essence this high form and morale maintenance will bring in other top awards to anyone or anything that has the guts to keep rolling high.

Horse racing has been one sport that has seen heroes and heroine in the last two centuries. If you ask many of these heroes, some will disclose the main secret of being at the top is maintaining the top form and winning one race after another. The 2015 LONGINES World Best Racehorse went to American Pharaoh. The US three times Crown winner broke the silence kept by American horses in the last seven years as it was back in 2008 when an American horse scooped the title.

Pharaoh deserved to be crowned the winner of the LONGINES honor in 2015 after his amazing form and effort saw him scoop three outstanding trophies at the same time. His three wins starting with the US Grand Slams held at Kentucky Derby, the Preakness Stakes as well as the Belmont Stake were enough to make him the first ever horse to scoop the three awards in 37 years. He now adds the LONGINES title to his name having claimed the American Horserace of the 2015 year.

It was amazing to see the Pharaoh dominating the American horse races under the command of jockey Victor Espinoza and the ownership of Ahmed Zayat. The three awards prompted the media to accord the Pharaoh with the Grand Slam King and Once in a lifetime horse titles.

In his last race before retiring, Pharaoh scooped $5 million during the Breeders Classic Cup held at Fort Knox, Kentucky. He now holds the gold stallion fame among the Zayat Stables in Hackensack in NJ.

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