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On behalf of the Idabet.com team, I want to wish you the very best holiday season and of course the biggest winning year ahead.  Thanks to all of our players that have made our second year of operation a major success.  We must be doing something right, because players are coming from all over the country and seem to revel in our all cash rewards program and our dedication to personalized service.

Here’s a look at what is happening in racing this week:

FOUR AE’S ON THE DERBY

Churchill Downs which of course at Idabet we are hoping they will allow all bettors an opportunity to bet their races on any ADW will allow for 4 also eligible entries to next year’s Derby.  24 horses can be entered and any late scratches will allow those on the list to get into the race.  While nothing entices gamblers as a full field like that for big time payoffs, it also causes the race to really crown the best three year old early in the season.

That charge of mass horses down the stretch usually prevents most horses from getting a true trip and as a result why we see many of the race winners lose esteem later in the summer.  Just too many horses get caught in jams and even the best of runners don’t emerge until they get a fairer race later on.

Of course, with me, it’s like all the foreign runners on Breeders’ Cup Day.  You really need to do your homework on those charges if you stand a chance at the window (oops…at the computer screen).  I grew up working at Laurel with the Washington, DC International and trying to get a fair read on the invaders was always my biggest problem with the race.

LAUREL ENDS MEET

Speaking of the Maryland track, there are two $75,000 races on Saturday’s closing day card.  But no one knows the future of the track and Maryland racing.   The state, horsemen and...

It’s official…warm weather sunny Florida racing action from Gulfstream Park and Tampa Bay Downs will be offered to our players all winter.  Of course, you can choose from scores of tracks from across the globe as well as these two popular winter venues.  Gulfstream gives you an early view into the many Derby hopefuls as well as last year’s older horses returning to aciton.

Tampa Bay Downs has increasingly become a mecca for top racing action in the winter as horses gather from racing spots coast to coast to enjoy the Gulf breezes.

Find a track where you can get hot and even if there is snow on the ground…coast to coast, ocean to ocean we have the action.

Happy Holidays at Idabet.com begin with NO DEPOSIT FEES all through December with just a few simple rules.  We will refund all of your deposit fees when you deposit a minimum of $100.  With GreenDot, we will refund your $4.95 fee once daily with a minimum total deposit of $250 daily.  Idabet continues to offer our player’s the best incentives and gifts.

Now through December 23, your daily play will earn you free entries into our Holiday Gift Giveaway. On December 24, we will be drawing winners for great prizes including the IPad and flat screen TV as well as gift certificates, free bets, free programs and so much more.

It’s easy to qualify for the giveaway:  Just wager at least $75 a day and you will automatically receive one entry for many of our prizes.  Wager at least $200 a day and you will also receive one entry for our premium prize drawings featuring the IPad and awesome TV.  One entry per account per day for each prize groups.  Play everyday and you’ll have the best odds of winning.

We thank you so much for our rapid growth at Idabet.com and wish you and your family the happiest, healthiest and winningest holiday season!

The Idabet.com family wishes your family and Happy Thanksgiving and Holiday Season and while we can’t get our famous Idaho Holiday Potatoes to your dinner table, we do have a couple of Turkey Day treats.

Our No Deposit Fee promotion continues through November.  Just make a minimum $10 deposit and we’ll credit your deposit fees within 24 hours.  For GreenDot, there’s a limit of one fee reimbursed per day with an aggregate deposits of at least $100 per day.

We are also offering you a Free Program on both Thursday and Friday of Thanksgiving…Just wager at least $150 on Thursday and you’ll get a free program.  Do the same on Friday and we’ll do the same.  Offer is limit to one program each day and we will reimburse your account on Monday.

Idabet.com wants to make sure you that you are receiving our weekly promotional emails.  Always check your Junk or Spam mail folders to see if you are missing us.  You can always change your mailbox options to ALLOW MAIL from Idabet.com or if you have any problems, just email Steve@Idabet.com to assist you.

DELTA DOWNS JACKPOT WINNERS….

We’ve posted the winners of our Delta Downs Jackpot gear winners on the homepage.  Your gifts will be mailed out next week.  Thanks for playing and Delta Downs says thank you for a record setting day.

HAVE A GREAT THANKSGIVING!

This Saturday’s $1 Million Delta Downs Jackpot has shaped us anything as exciting on Breeders’ Cup Day and proves the racing season is still in high gear.  Bob Baffert will send his two year star DRILL, winner of the Grade I Del Mar Futurity to the post as favorite for this juvenile test.

Idabet.com players can get in on the action with post time at 2:15pm (Special Daytime Card) and the there’s a $100,000 guaranteed Pick 4 beginning with the 4^th race.

Idabet’s Steve Kallens has announced another fun promotion for our players.  Ten lucky winners will be randomly drawn by computer to win an official souvenir item from the Delta Downs Jackpot collection.  “The only requirement to be eligible is to wager at least $250 between Friday and Saturday on Delta Downs races,” said Kallens.  “We had plenty of enthusiasm for last week’s Idabet giveaway of swag and thanks to our owners, it looks like we are in the holiday spirit with gifts even before Thanksgiving.”

– EXCITEMENT BUILDS FOR SATURDAY’S RICH PROGRAM –

VINTON, LA. – Only four days remain until Delta Downs’ richest and most important race day of the

year. It’s the $1,000,000 Delta Downs Jackpot program, and it takes place this Saturday, November 19.

Many of the connections that will take part in the main event, which features 2-year-olds vying for a

massive first-place paycheck of $600,000 in graded earnings, are making final travel arrangements to get

to Vinton, Louisiana for the 1 1/16-mile showdown.

Listed below, in order of entry preference by earnings and graded stakes placings, is the latest information

from Delta Downs’ racing office regarding arrival plans.

 Drill: The winner of this year’s $250,000 Del Mar Futurity (Gr. I) is scheduled to fly from

Southern California...

Congratulations to our lucky winners of our Kickoff to the Holidays giveaway last week.  You will be receiving your gift shortly.  Don’t thank Melissa or Steve this time around, just thank the little jockey running around inside the computer that selected our winners.
The following winners can now avoid the lines of Black Friday:

Jack J., Port Huron, MI
Michael M., Pell Lake, WI
Jeff S., Allentown, PA
John G.,  Sanford, FL
Bill W., Drums, PA
Gerald L., Milwaukee, WI
Brandi B., Barberton, O
Roland R., Stamford, CN
Mike D., Atlantic, IA
Roger D., Elkhart, IN

Terry C., Cape Coral, FL
Eugene B., M, Greenville, MI
Mark C., Rochester, NY
James M., Eagle, ID
Eric K., Central Islip, NY
David R., Tulsa, OK
Peter R, Newton Upper F. MA
Michael M., Mechanicsbrg, PA
Jerome M., Tampa, FL
Richard K., Auburn, NY