Tiz the Law looks eager in five-furlong Derby work& looks forward to sueing andrew cuomo
Sunday, April 12, 2020
Track Code Track Name Entry Scratch 1st Post
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Zone Stakes Race(s) Stakes Grade T.V.
Indicator SA SANTA ANITA PARK 72 48 3:00 PM 12:00 PM PDT SUN SUNLAND PARK 168 24 2:30 PM 12:30 PM MDT Mt. Cristo Rey H. TAM TAMPA BAY DOWNS 72 0 12:35 PM
Track Code Track Name Entry Scratch 1st Post
ET1st Post
LocalTime
ZoneStakes Race(s) Stakes Grade T.V.
IndicatorSA SANTA ANITA PARK 72 48 3:00 PM 12:00 PM PDT SUN SUNLAND PARK 168 24 2:30 PM 12:30 PM MDT Mt. Cristo Rey H. TAM TAMPA BAY DOWNS 72 0 12:35 PM
https://www.nydailynews.com/archives/sports/open-1st-palm-sunday-otb-rakes-2m-article-1.659016
New York City Off-Track Betting made history yesterday, taking bets on Palm Sunday. Since 1973, when Sunday racing was made legal in New York State, race tracks have been allowed to operate every Sunday except for Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday. While Aqueduct kept its doors shut, NYCOTB had its betting parlors open despite a letter from the New York State Racing and Wagering Board stating that it couldn't do so. "We're not a race track," NYCOTB president Ray Casey said. "OTB's business is a simulcasting business.
" Bettors responded by wagering an estimated $2 million yesterday on tracks from around the country, including Keeneland in Kentucky and Gulfstream Park in Florida. While in the past NYCOTB has respected the law and shut down on Palm Sunday, it took a chance this time because its business is down. "With the weather being the way it's been our handle has been off significantly," Casey said. "Our lawyers felt from their point of view that we could open (yesterday).
" The law says race tracks can't open. It doesn't mention OTBs. "I respect the Racing and Wagering Board and I have the utmost respect for chairman Michael Hoblock but I felt we're right on this one," Casey said. The NYSRWB didn't return phone calls yesterday but said on Saturday it would meet this week to discuss fines and penalties it can impose on NYCOTB. "This isn't personal," Casey said. "I just didn't agree with the board's interpretation.
" Casey also said NYCOTB may open on Easter Sunday.
Thanks for the help. The item’s below. I’d be happy to mail you a copy, if you give me a mailing address.
Claude Solnik
Long Island Business News
2150 Smithtown Ave.
Ronkonkoma, NY 11779-7348
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New York City Off-Track Betting made history yesterday, taking bets on Palm Sunday. Since 1973, when Sunday racing was made legal in New York State, race tracks have been allowed to operate every Sunday except for Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday. While Aqueduct kept its doors shut, NYCOTB had its betting parlors open despite a letter from the New York State Racing and Wagering Board stating that it couldn't do so. "We're not a race track," NYCOTB president Ray Casey said. "OTB's business is a simulcasting business." Bettors responded by wagering an estimated $2 million yesterday on tracks from around the country, including Keeneland in Kentucky and Gulfstream Park in Florida. While in the past NYCOTB has respected the law and shut down on Palm Sunday, it took a chance this time because its business is down. "With the weather being the way it's been our handle has been off significantly," Casey said. "Our lawyers felt from their point of view that we could open (yesterday)." The law says race tracks can't open. It doesn't mention OTBs. "I respect the Racing and Wagering Board and I have the utmost respect for chairman Michael Hoblock but I felt we're right on this one," Casey said. The NYSRWB didn't return phone calls yesterday but said on Saturday it would meet this week to discuss fines and penalties it can impose on NYCOTB. "This isn't personal," Casey said. "I just didn't agree with the board's interpretation." Casey also said NYCOTB may open on Easter Sunday.Thanks for the help. The item’s below. I’d be happy to mail you a copy, if you give me a mailing address.Claude SolnikLong Island Business News2150 Smithtown Ave.Ronkonkoma, NY 11779-7348Home > LI Confidential > Stop scratching on holidays
Stop scratching on holidays
Published: June 1, 2012
Off Track Betting in New York State has been racing into a crisis called shrinking revenue. Some people have spitballed a solution: Don’t close on holidays.
New York State Racing Law bars racing on Christmas, Easter and Palm Sunday, and the state has ruled OTBs can’t handle action on those days, even though they could easily broadcast races from out of state.
“You should be able to bet whenever you want,” said Jackson Leeds, a Nassau OTB employee who makes an occasional bet. He added some irrefutable logic: “How is the business going to make money if you’re not open to take people’s bets?”
Elias Tsekerides, president of the Federation of Hellenic Societies of Greater New York, said OTB is open on Greek Orthodox Easter and Palm Sunday.
“I don’t want discrimination,” Tsekerides said. “They close for the Catholics, but open for the Greek Orthodox? It’s either open for all or not open.”
OTB officials have said they lose millions by closing on Palm Sunday alone, with tracks such as Gulfstream, Santa Anita, Turf Paradise and Hawthorne running.
One option: OTBs could just stay open and face the consequences. New York City OTB did just that back in 2003. The handle was about $1.5 million – and OTB was fined $5,000.
Easy money.
Off Track Betting in New York State has been racing into a crisis called shrinking revenue. Some people have spitballed a solution: Don’t close on holidays.
New York State Racing Law bars racing on Christmas, Easter and Palm Sunday, and the state has ruled OTBs can’t handle action on those days, even though they could easily broadcast races from out of state.
“You should be able to bet whenever you want,” said Jackson Leeds, a Nassau OTB employee who makes an occasional bet. He added some irrefutable logic: “How is the business going to make money if you’re not open to take people’s bets?”
Elias Tsekerides, president of the Federation of Hellenic Societies of Greater New York, said OTB is open on Greek Orthodox Easter and Palm Sunday.
“I don’t want discrimination,” Tsekerides said. “They close for the Catholics, but open for the Greek Orthodox? It’s either open for all or not open.”
OTB officials have said they lose millions by closing on Palm Sunday alone, with tracks such as Gulfstream, Santa Anita, Turf Paradise and Hawthorne running.
One option: OTBs could just stay open and face the consequences. New York City OTB did just that back in 2003. The handle was about $1.5 million – and OTB was fined $5,000.
Easy money.
David GreningAug 23, 2020
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Trainer Barclay Tagg is not babying Tiz the Law into the Kentucky Derby.
Fifteen days after Tiz the Law won the Runhappy Travers emphatically and 13 days before he runs in the Derby as the favorite on Sept. 5 at Churchill Downs, Tagg sent Tiz the Law out early Sunday morning for a rigorous five-furlong workout that he completed in 59.47 seconds, according to Daily Racing Formclocker Mike Welsch’s watch, over Saratoga’s main track.
After a sloppy track prompted Tagg to cancel a scheduled Saturday work at 8:45 a.m., Tiz the Law was the first horse to work on the track just after it opened at 5:30 a.m. Sunday. Though it was pretty dark, Tiz the Law, under exercise rider Heather Smullen, could be seen streaking his first three furlongs in 35.75 seconds. During the early part of the work Smullen, who kept Tiz the Law a couple of paths off the fence, said Tiz the Law was playing around so she took the stick out of her back pocket, but didn’t use it.
“When I took the stick out he went 'Oh fine,’ and went perfectly straight the rest of the way, went by a horse [galloping] at the eighth pole nice and straight and continued to gallop out,” Smullen said.
Tiz the Law completed his final quarter in 23.72, then proceeded to gallop out six furlongs in 1:12.86, seven furlongs in 1:26.00 and a mile in 1:40.06.
Smullen could hardly pull Tiz the Law up even after 1 1/8 miles in 1:55.98.
“He didn’t want to pull up,” Smullen said. “I was like 'Oh good, we’re going to go around again, great, fabulous.’ ”
Tagg said with only time for two works, he wanted to make each one count.
“I could only work him twice and I wanted to get a good work in him this time,” Tagg said. “I didn’t want a phony work, I wanted him relaxed and doing it on his own and see how fast he could do it. I was just happy he went in 59-and-something. I still have the horror of Funny Cide going in 57 four days before the Belmont Stakes.”
In 2003, Funny Cide, after winning the Kentucky Derby and Preakness for Tagg, finished third in the Belmont Stakes.
Tagg said he walked the main track before it opened Sunday morning and found it to be a touch deep.
“It didn’t look like it was deep for him, he just glided over it,” Tagg said.
Since the year began, Tiz the Law has had his races well spaced out. On Feb. 1, he won the Grade 3 Holy Bull off a nine-week layoff and the Florida Derby eight weeks after that. With the COVID-19 pandemic throwing the spring schedule amok, Tiz the Law won the 1 1/8-mile Belmont Stakes on June 20 off a 12-week layoff layoff before galloping seven weeks later in the Travers on Aug. 8.
Now the schedule gets tight. The Kentucky Derby is four weeks after the Travers, and the Preakness, which is where Tiz the Law would run should he win the Derby, is four weeks later on Oct. 3. Then there is the Breeders’ Cup Classic on Nov. 7 at Keeneland.
“I don’t see him going backwards at all, but he’s got some wood to chop,” Tagg said. “He’s got the Derby, that’s a lot of traveling. I think he can handle it, but whether he can handle what he has to do after that I don’t know. You never know when you hit bottom.”
Weather permitting, Tagg plans to work Tiz the Law at Saratoga next Sunday. The horse then ships to Kentucky on Aug. 31.
While Tagg expressed concern about running in a field of 18 to 20 horses, he’d be less concerned if he can get the trip he wants under jockey Manny Franco.
“If he could sit third in the two path all the way around I’d be happy,” Tagg said.
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