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On Sunday, trainer John Sadler’s thoroughbred race horse Gladding, which was making his stakes debut, won the Grade 2, $150,000 San Antonio Stakes for older horses.

Capping a big weekend at Santa Anita Park for Sadler, Gladding led from start to finish.

Sadler’s Twirling Candy won the Strub Stakes and Zazu won the Las Virgenes Stakes on Saturday.

A joyful Sadler said in the winner’s circle, “This is a good habit.”

For the win in the San Antonio Stakes in horse racing betting odds at Santa Anita, Gladding paid $5.20, which hosts some of the most well-known racing events in the U.S. leading up the Triple Crown races in the spring.

Following the race’s favorite, Aggie Engineer, Gladding had been a solid second choice, generally because the 1 1/8-mile San Antonio race came up with little speed.

Gladding was able to get to the front in 23.69 seconds for the opening quarter-mile, over a track that is well-suited to front-runners. Gladding then slowed it down noticeably through a half-mile in 48.72 and six furlongs in 1:13.41, even though the sped up through the next quarter-mile in less than 23 seconds, as well as the final furlong in less than 12 seconds to complete 1 1/8 miles on the fast main track in 1:48.

Sadler said, “It’s fun when it works out. It doesn’t always.”

Sadler further mentioned that for the Santa Anita Handicap on March 5, Gladding could join Twirling Candy in the starting gate.

Today, Dawsonville, Georgia’s Bill Elliott announced his 2011 plans for the NASCAR Sprint Cup season today via his website, BillElliott.com. Since semi-retiring after the 2003 season, the 16-time Most Popular Driver has been driving part-time.

Mostly in Fords, the 1988 NASCAR Cup Champ has won 44 Sprint Cup races and 55 poles. He will start the season as a Chevrolet driver, although for the first time in his career. In a minimum of 18 races this season, he has teamed up with James Finch’s Phoenix Racing to run the No. 09 Chevrolet.

At Daytona, the new combo will start the season. Elliott has four Sprint Cup wins at Daytona. In the Great American Race, Finch has finishes of third, fourth, ninth, 10th and 12th. Finch has finishes of third, fourth, ninth, 10th and 12th, Phoenix Racing team also has a Cup victory at Daytona’s sister track, in 2009 with Brad Keselowski driving.

Phoenix Team owner, James Finch said that he is committed to 18 to 20 of the races. With the first 8 or 10 races in a row, they are soon going to start off. They will try to get squared away, be able to race the whole year and get in the top 35 in points.

Last year, Phoenix Racing qualified for 28 of the 36 Cup events to finish 39th in the owner standings. Elliott will need to make the Daytona 500 on speed because it did not finish in the top 35 in owner points, through his qualifying race finish or a past champion’s provisional. The team is not currently planning on competing in that event, although Elliott is eligible for the Budweiser Shootout.

Last year, in the Daytona 500, Elliott started 40th and finished 27th. With the Wood Brothers last year, he drove the first of 12 races. He was 15th in the season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway, which was his best finish. With 44 career victories and 821 career starts, Elliott ranks 15th all-time. 2003 was his last full-time season.

The Dakar rally is being held in South America for the third year, looping for 9,500 km through Argentina and Chile with its start and finish in Buenos Aires. In the bike category this year, there are no Canadians have entered and only one is in a car; Conor Malone of Toronto.

Spaniard Marc Coma took his first stage victory, on the third day of the 2011 Dakar Rally by beating fellow KTM rider Cyril Despres. Coma rode strongly in the trek, Down by 2:35 at the end of Day 2, from San Miguel de Tucuman to San Salvador de Jujuy to finish 02:21 ahead of his rival. On Day 3, Despres maintains the overall rally lead.

Throughout the day’s competition, Despres made a terrific comeback to finish second and lose only a minute and a half from his overall lead. During the first checkpoint, Portugal’s Paulo Goncalves led but he would gradually slow to take third at the end of Day 3.

With a neutralized section in between, the third leg of the journey featured a special, which was broken into two smaller parts. The first timed special taking place through desert canyons and red sand cliffs, terrain varied widely throughout the day. Despres was making up significant ground on the field and fast approaching Coma, although heading into the first neutralized section KTM’s Coma established 3:09 advantage over his rival. Coma led as Goncalves and France’s Olivier Pain remained closely behind, throughout the neutralized section.

On the car side of things, Nasser Al-Attiyah of Volkswagen Motorsports won the third stage of the 2011 Dakar Rally in Argentina. Teammate Carlos Sainz continues to hold the overall lead. At the start of Tuesday’s stage, Al-Attiyah was third overall in the standings.
Out of 156 entries, Conor Malone is in 131st spot, which is not bad for a total rookie. He said that his goal is to finish. He added that he knows he will not beat the Volkswagens but for him finishing is realistic. Finishing will be like a win for him.

Wednesday’s running will take the drivers from San Salvador de Jujuy, Argentina to Calama, Chili and it will mark the fourth of 13 stages.

Ahead of a much-anticipated NASCAR Sprint Cup race in July, the Kentucky Tourism Development Finance Authority has approved incentives for the Kentucky Speedway.

Kentucky Speedway is currently undergoing an $82 million expansion and the approved incentives have made Kentucky Speedway eligible for up to $20.5 million in tax rebates over a 10-year period. To approve the incentives for the Kentucky Speedway in Gallatin County, the six-member board voted unanimously and to give preliminary approval to the Ark Encounter park in Grant County.

In a statement, Gov. Steve Beshear said that an annual $150 million economic impact in Kentucky would be from the Sprint Cup race. Especially during the current economic recession, it will be great news. Seating capacity is being expanded from 60,000 to 102,000, and parking and camping areas are being enlarged, to accommodate the Sprint Cup race, scheduled for July 9.

During a 10-year period, the approval means the speedway will be eligible for as much as $20.5 million in performance-based rebates, based on an investment of $82 million. Through the recovery of sales tax generated at the racetrack, the incentive allows the applicant to recover as much as 25 percent of development costs.

A 500- by-75-foot wooden ark will be the centerpiece of the Ark Encounter Park, billed as a replica of the biblical Noah’s Ark. With critics, questioning whether granting state tax incentives to the project would violate laws separating church and state, the proposed project has garnered national and international attention. The race, which is scheduled for July 9 would be very enthralling for every spectator.

For the eighth straight year Dale Earnhardt Jr. has pocketed NASCAR’s most popular driver title who is also a favorite in racing odds.

At the Bellagio in Las Vegas Earnhardt, was offered with the award at the National Motorsports Press Association Myers Brothers luncheon and he drives for Hendrick Motorsports driver.

Earnhardt is getting close to the record 10 straight most popular driver awards won by Bill Elliott from 1991 to 2000 with the triumph. As Elliott is the all-time leader, winning the award with 16 times, he has a long way to go yet to top Elliot’s total.

Bobby Allison has seven, Earnhardt is now at eight and Richard Petty has won 10 times.

Yet, finishing 21st in points and missing the Chase for Sprint Cup for the second straight year and third time in four seasons Earnhardt did not have a great NASCAR season.

In 2008 it’s part of a descending trend for Earnhardt, who is in a 93-race losing streak dating back to Michigan.

With five-time defending Sprint Cup champion Jimmie Johnson, Team owner Rick Hendrick said he is moving Earnhardt into the same shop. He is pairing him with Jeff Gordon crew chief Steve Letarte.

With having Mark Martin and Alan Gustafson as his crew chief Gordon will now share a shop.

“It’s hard to say how it’s going to affect us.” Johnson’s crew chief, Chad Knaus, made a statement.

With an appeal against a landmark, Federal Court ruling expected in the next week, the two-year legal fight between Racing NSW and online betting exchange Betfair would go to the High Court.

Betfair intends to appeal the Federal Court’s ruling to allow New South Wales racing administrators to charge a turnover-based fee called a ”race fields fee”. Last week, the right of Racing NSW to charge a 1.5 per cent levy on turnover was upheld by three Federal Court judges. Appeals from Betfair and Sportsbet were also quashed by the court.

To pursue further legal action, Betfair is believed to have the support of Mr. Packer. The company believes to lodge a formal complaint with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. For the company, it is an anti-competitive conduct.

Company directors agreed to appeal the decision to the High Court, at a Betfair board meeting in Melbourne on Monday. The company’s plan for an appeal was the first item of business. Last week’s court ruling was hailed by Racing NSW as a victory for the racing industry. In case Betfair and Sportsbet won in court, the governing body said it would release $120 million of revenue paid by corporate bookmakers that it had held back and announced an increase in prize money for races.

With the ACCC, Betfair plans to lodge a formal complaint over what it claims is a conspiracy to protect the TAB’s revenue through an uneven race fields fee structure.

Mr. Twaites said, ”Our gripe is that we are being asked to pay a fee that is six times higher than the TAB is paying. Racing NSW is charging the TAB 9 per cent of their gross revenues, and they are charging us 60 per cent. This is about a low-margin business challenging the monopoly of a high-margin business, and we intend to keep fighting.”

Justice Nye Perram concluded in his original ruling, ”the respondents [Racing NSW] plainly intended the fee to protect the TAB from competition from Betfair and that their intentions were protectionist”.

He added that Racing NSW’s ”actual purpose was to protect the revenues of the TAB from competition from interstate operators”.

On Sunday November 14, the NASCAR Sprint Cup Chase moves to the desert with the Kobalt Tools 500 at the Phoenix International Raceway. A confident No.11 FedEx team led by driver Denny Hamlin and his crew chief Mike Ford has already been turned upside down the chase. This weekend in Phoenix, the Joe Gibbs Racing team pulled off the win in Texas last week and is set for a good finish.

In Phoenix, Denny Hamlin has finished in the top five in three of his last five races.
Hamlin had just undergone ACL surgery and he was forced to nurse a damaged car to the finish of the spring race. At Phoenix, Hamlin and the entire Joe Gibbs Racing team have nailed the set up and they should do well.

In the title chase, Jimmie Johnson and Chad Knaus enter this race frazzled and down 33 points to Hamlin. During the Texas race and benched his No. 48 Lowe’s team in favor of Jeff Gordon‘s pit crew the normally cool and collected Knaus lost it. For the remainder of the season the four time championship pit crew for the No.48 will be on Jeff Gordon’s team.

The Stewart Haas team of Ryan Newman and Tony Stewart should be the wild card in this race. This weekend, Newman won the spring race and is actually a long shot at 35-1 to win the race. Pit selection is a key to a good day in Phoenix because of the long pit road Newman will also be a strong qualifying threat in this race.

In this weekend’s Kobalt Tools 500 race, Danica Patrick, who lives in the Phoenix area, is set to make her NASCAR debut at the Phoenix International Raceway. Racing betting lines experts will keep a close eye on her performance.

She will also take part in a special fan Q&A at the stage at the sponsored Budweiser ROLL-BAR, an event that will be open to race fans who have tickets, on November the 12th.

Patrick has previously raced at Phoenix International Raceway, but as an Indy Car driver, not behind the wheel of a NASCAR stock car and she will drive the GoDaddy.com sponsored stock car.

At the Budweiser ROLL-BAR stage, at the Budweiser ROLL-BAR stage in following days, such as on November 14 when Kasey Kahne and Ryan Newman will also join in on the fan question and answer sessions. At Phoenix International Raceway, Newman has already won this year, taking the checkered flag in April at the SUBWAY Fresh Fit 600. While popular driver Kahne will appear 30 minutes later at 10:00 a.m., Newman will attend his Q&A session at 9:30 a.m.

However, as Ricky Carmichael, motocross champion will be in both the ROLL-BAR and other gathering places at various times, NASCAR drivers aren’t the only people appearing in the same. In this year’s NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, Carmichael will be competing as well as the Nationwide Series events to be held at PIR. Although, for appearances several more drivers will be announced, not all have been determined.

The NASCAR Sprint Cup Chase heads to Martinsville Speedway, the only short track in the Chase. The two point leaders in the Chase are the two best drivers on the Virginia paperclip. Both Denny Hamlin and Jimmie Johnson claim Martinsville as one of their favorite tracks.

Since coming into the NASCAR Sprint Cup series, Jimmie Johnson has long dominated this track. With four of those races being won in the NASCAR Chase, Jimmie Johnson has won six races at Martinsville. On the flat Martinsville half mile, Johnson also has finished second twice and third twice.

The race that sets up the final run to the championship is Martinsville this is the main reason Johnson has dominated the NASCAR Chase the last four years. Johnson has won from as far back as 20th position, although qualifying is the key to his success at Martinsville.

At Martinsville, Denny Hamlin is the also dominant. Hamlin the defending race winner of the fall race and he has three wins. Hamlin, in his home state track also makes the top five consistently. Eighth is Hamlin’s worst finish in his career at Martinsville if his one crash is thrown out of the equation.

Look for Jeff Gordon to be waiting in the wings, if anything does happen to Johnson and Hamlin in this race. On the Martinsville track, Gordon was the most dominant driver before Johnson arrived on the scene. Gordon’s worst finish at Martinsville is ninth since 2003 and he has won seven times.

On Nov. 5-6 at Churchill Downs, Zenyatta is now the favorite to win the 27th Breeders’ Cup World Championships, just slightly ahead of Lookin at Lucky.

With a big win at the Lady’s Secret Stakes this weekend, the undefeated six- year-old took over the favorite’s spot for the 2010 Breeders’ Cup.

At Hollywood Park, Zenyatta came from last to win the $250,000 Lady’s Secret Stakes and become North America’s all-time richest female thoroughbred. For the win, she was ridden by Mike Smith.

For this week’s NTRA National Thoroughbred Poll, Zenyatta is also unanimous choice. At Hollywood Park on Saturday, the undefeated six- year-old received all 18 first-place votes following her 19th consecutive victory.

The champion was the only horse to receive a first-place vote and mare totaled 180 points.

In Horse Racing Odds, she is at 7-2 at many sportsbooks to win the Breeders’ Cup. Lookin at Lucky is right behind at 4-1, which won a decisive victory in the Indiana Derby.

With various prices at various bookmakers, behind them are Blame (Arch) in a three-horse muddle that bounces between 5/1 and 8/1. Quality Road (Elusive Quality) and Haynesfield (Speightstown) are the other two included in this one.