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• Area Leaders Demand VLT Firm Pick by Howard Koplowitz - YourNabe.com

  
  Lost in the Ozone... — Authority: 132
  Read original... Elected officials and members of Community Board 10 are growing frustrated over Gov. David Paterson’s inability to name the winner of the bid to construct VLTs at Aqueduct Race Track. Photo by Christina Santucci Frustration is mounting by the day over Gov. David Paterson’s ...
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• Easy Gambling

  
  They're in the Gate — Authority: 111
  The average U.S. residents large appetite for easy and fast gambling continues. According to the Census Bureaus annual Statistical Abstract of the United States, U.S. residents last year spent over $53.4 billion on lottery tickets, up from $52.4 billion in the previous year. Most decided to skip the "more ...
  6 days ago

• SL Green, AEG are Pheffers Favorites by Stephen Geffon - Queens Chronicle

  
  Lost in the Ozone... — Authority: 132
  Read original... While Gov. David Paterson remains tight-lipped — and slow on the draw — when it comes to both vocalizing his preference and selecting a winning bidder for Aqueduct Race Track, Assemblywoman Audrey Pheffer (D-Ozone Park) did not hold back at last week’s Community Board 10 meeting in South Ozone ...
  1 week ago

• WEEKEND STAKES: WHERE TO WATCH brought to you by KBC Horse Supplies

  
  Paulick Report — Authority: 498
  As we find ourselves in the dog days of Thoroughbred racing, there are only two graded stakes races in the country this weekend, both of them Grade III. The most anticipated of the two is unquestionably the Native Diver Handicap, a nine furlong race on Hollywood Park’s synthetic main track. The star attraction, of ...
  1 week ago

• Philly Park Purse Surge

  
  Power Cap — Authority: 116
  $5 for a large pizza, $1.20 for a pack of smokes and less than $500 a month for a nice one bedroom. The numbers are my fondest memories of my time in Philadelphia. Cheap living in an honest working class city. At that time the racing world had an even larger chasm between New York and Philly. Philly Park was ...
  2 weeks ago

• Greg Melikov’s Horses to Watch

  
  WagerWeb Entertainment — Authority: 156
  Horses worth watching, a list of runners compiled by handicapper/turf writer Greg Melikov that should improve significantly or do well next time out, won five times, ran second four times and finished third three times since Nov. 14. These thoroughbreds are worth considering when developing your betting strategy. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Governor Paterson Make a Decision on Aqueduct Racino VLT NOW..!

  
  Lost in the Ozone... — Authority: 132
  This petition is to demand that Governor David Paterson finally choose a vendor for the VLT machines at the Aqueduct Racino... Please sign on to the petition and join others in the community to get this long-awaited project moving... Governor Paterson Make a Decision on the Aqueduct Racino VLT vendor Now..! ...
  2 weeks ago

• Bronx Gambles: While politicians bicker over which bidder...

  
  Curbed NY — Authority: 685
  While politicians bicker over which bidder will get to build a casino at the Aqueduct racetrack, it turns out there already is an Aqueduct casino -- operating out of a Bronx apartment building at 2320 Aqueduct Avenue . There are some juicy details on the condo-slash-casino in this weeks Village Voice article on ...
  2 weeks ago

• Thanksgiving at the Aqueduct (in random photos)

  
  EV Grieve — Authority: 601
  Per the Grieve family tradition , we spend Thanksgiving helping those more unfortunate than ourselves...in this case, the New York Racing Association, which inexplicably figures to have a $14 billion dollar deficit ... So it was off to the Aqueduct Racetrack in South Ozone Park, Queens, this past Thanksgiving. I ...
  2 weeks ago

• Then after the Aqueduct

  
  EV Grieve — Authority: 601
  After the races, you may want to sample the local bar scene across the street in the South Ozone Park neighborhood... Unfortunately, all of our favorites are gone . Was dismayed to see on Thanksgiving that Guys of Vinegar Hill (on the left below)... ...is now this charmless-looking spot. And it wasnt open on ...
  2 weeks ago

• L.A. inches toward solar with new Owens Lake proposal (via postie)

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 158
  Bookmark this categoryFor many in the Owens River Valley in Southern California, Owens Lake was their livelihood. In 1913, Los Angeles siphoned the water for city use — across a mountain range and more than 200 miles. The resulting aqueduct was considered by many to be a crime against the people in the surrounding ...
  2 weeks ago

• Aqueduct Inner Track is Upon Us

  
  Power Cap — Authority: 116
  The longest horseracing meet of the annum in New York begins today. This meet is so long it transcends the calender. Four months of the inner dirt will span the late fall of 2009 to the early spring 2010. This meet has all the utilitarian appeal of a metal fabrication warehouse. This is not Del Mar, Keeneland or ...
  2 weeks ago

• U.S. Breaks Relations With Nicaraguan Dictator

  
  Times Traveler — Authority: 418
  The United States announced last night that it has broken off relations with the government of Nicaragua under José Santos Zelaya, and opened diplomatic channels with his rival, Gen. Juan Estrada. The move "brings the crisis as near the status of war as it could be brought by Executive action."
  2 weeks ago

• Meniere’s disease and middle ear pressure – vestibular function after transtympanic tube placement

  
  COMD News — Authority: 152
  Conclusion: Selected patients with Meniere’s disease (MD) show an improvement of disability from vertigo after transtympanic ventilation tube insertion, although an effect on vestibular function is not seen if ipsilateral middle ear pressure lower than -50 daPa is used as a selection criterion. Objectives: ...
  2 weeks ago

• Surveying the Potential Stars of Tomorrow

  
  Green but Game — Authority: 109
  Buddy’s Saint, potential star and confirmed New York hype horse! (Melissa Wirth)While it was a great long weekend of racing of every kind, I decided to pay more attention to 2yo racing than normal. Thanks to Val of Foolish Pleasure / Fillies First for alerting me to the Stars of Tomorrow card on closing day [...]
  3 weeks ago

• The California Aqueduct

  
  Cheshire Cat Photo Blog (... said the Cat: 'we're all mad here....') — Authority: 128
  The Governor Edmund G. Brown California Aqueduct is a system of pipelines, canals, and tunnels that carry water from the Sierra Nevada and valleys of Northern- and Central-California to Southern California . The California Aqueduct and two pumped-storage hydroelectric plants, Castaic and Gianelli, are ...
  3 weeks ago

• Ride ‘Em Kowboy

  
  myBCTnow.com — Authority: 150
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• U.S. Is Said to Land Force in Nicaragua

  
  Times Traveler — Authority: 418
  American armed forces landed yesterday at the Nicaraguan port Bluefields, according to a ciphered dispatch sent by an insurgent, Col. F. Golarza, to G. Spencer Holland, who has "considerable property and mining interests" in the country.
  3 weeks ago

• Cherokee Country wins Big A’s Fall Highweight (AP)

  
  Relevant News — Authority: 178
  Cherokee Country stormed home at 12-1 to beat Greenspring by a half length in the $110,000 Fall Highweight Handicap, the Thanksgiving Day feature at Aqueduct. Read more from the original source: Cherokee Country wins Big A’s Fall Highweight (AP)
  3 weeks ago

• WEEKEND STAKES: WHERE TO WATCH brought to you by KBC Horse Supplies

  
  Paulick Report — Authority: 498
  The upcoming long holiday weekend provides an opportunity for three tracks–Hollywood Park, Aqueduct and Churchill Downs—to run a combined total of 16 graded stakes, many with entrants coming out of the Breeders’ Cup Championships held earlier this month at Santa Anita. Churchill Downs has carded the 1 1/8-mile ...
  3 weeks ago

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