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It’s time for another IdaCapper Contest.  Saturday, July 30 we are offering an IdaWin Contest.  Just select one horse from each race at Les Bois Park and our top ‘capper wins $50 added to their account with the runner up getting $25.

It’s easy to play and enter.  Just email Steve@Idabet.com the race number and program number of your choice in each race along with your name and account number.  The deadline to enter is 5pm EDT Saturday.  If your horse is scratched in a race, we will replace it with the favorite.

For this contest, there is no entry fee, but you must wager at least $50 on the Les Bois Park card Saturday night through Idabet.com.  If you are betting Les Bois, we will remiburse you for  your past performance program.

LAJOLLA FAMOSA, WAYWARD WINGS, EYE YIN FURY

SCORE IN SANDY DOWNS TRIALS

Duo Leading Contenders for Hawthorne Futurity and Hadtobenuts Derby

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LES BOIS LEAD TO IDAHO RACING RESURGENCE

Gary and Jeralyn Messenger’s LAJOLLA FAMOSA victory in a division of the $24,000 Hadtobenuts Derby Trials on Friday at Sandy Downs, is just one of the bright spots of Idaho racing emerging from Idaho Falls.  Earlier in the card, WAYWARD WINGS had the fastest time of the three divisions of the $32,000 Hawthorne Futurity Trials.  Both stakes will be contested on closing night, Saturday, July 30.

Leading jockey Paul Greene guided Lajolla Famosa to his sixth career victory in twelve starts for the meet’s top conditioner Brett Vickery.  The 3-year-old Idaho-bred by Streakin Lajolla out of Go For Flame broke third and quickly took the lead to cover the 400-yard test in 19.639 seconds.  He paid $3.20 to win as the favorite.  Dan Moon, sponsor of the Derby saw his charge Hadtobewinner, the son of Hadtobenuts close to finish a half length back at 10 to 1 odds.

Moon had even better luck with Wayward Wings, the speediest in the Hawthorne Futurity Trials.  The daughter of Hadtobenuts went 350 yards in 17.588 seconds for her second score in four races this year to emerge as the favorite in the July 30 finals.  Once again, Brett Vickery saddled the race winner. The Idaho-bred paid $9.60 in easily beating runner up Lp Jesses Ace by 1 ¼ lengths.  That combination provided for some wild payoffs   Though going off at 7-1, Lp Jesses Ace paid $27.00 for place and created a $2 quinella that returned a whopping $235.60

Eye Yin Fury made it two out of three in the two-year-old...

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Havre de Grace-Blind Luck VI headlines 74th renewal of Delaware Handicap 

Stanton, Del., July 12, 2011 - The old racetrack adage from long ago says with a “filly or mare go to Delaware,” and the connections of the best fillies in the country, arguably the two best horse in training in the nation, are heeding that wisdom as the pair prepares to meet for the sixth time at the site where the rivalry began a year ago.  Havre de Grace, the current leading filly and mare in the nation, and Blind Luck, the 2010 3-year-old filly champion, are slated to meet again at Delaware Park in the Delaware Handicap.  Havre de Grace, locally-owned by Richard Porter’s Fox Hill Farm, and California invader Blind Luck, owned by Mark DeDomenico, John Carver, Peter Abruzzo and Jerry Hollendorfer, headline the 74th renewal of the $750,000 Grade II Delaware Handicap this Saturday.  The mile-and-a-quarter filly and mare summer classic has attracted a field of five.

More than prestige, money and bragging rights will be on the line as for the fourth consecutive time the Delaware Handicap has been designated as a “Win and You’re In” Breeders’ Cup Challenge race, with the winner automatically qualifying for the Ladies’ Classic at Churchill Downs on November 4.

The rivalry began when the pair met in the Grade II Delaware Oaks last year, with Blind Luck edging out a nose victory over Havre de Grace.  Since then, they have met four times at venues across the country, with Havre de Grace winning two and Blind Luck winning one. The only time one did not win while facing each other was in the Breeders’ Cup Ladies Classic at Churchill Downs last year, when Unrivaled Belle won, Blind Luck finished second and Havre de...

Q-ACES RACING SEMINAR SATURDAY AT SANDY DOWNS

Free Bets, Happy Hour, Live Music, Family Fun as

Racing Season Hits the Homestretch

Racing for the 2011 season at Sandy Downs heads into the homestretch this Friday and Saturday with another weekend packed with quarter horse and thoroughbred racing, family fun and giveaways.  Gates open at 5 p.m. each day with post time for the first race at 6 p.m.  The first 100 paid admissions receive a free bet on the action both days.

Saturday, newcomers and experts to racing can increase their knowledge of quarter horse racing with the Q-Aces Seminar, a national program to educate fans on “America’s Fastest Sport.”  There’s live music both evenings with Kevin Young on Friday and Will, Amber & Smith performing on Saturday.  There will be a fun bounce, pony rides and face painting for the kids and a Happy Hour from 5pm to 6pm offering Free hot dogs for the kids and half price beer for the adults.  The big race of the weekend is Saturday’s AQHA Red Cell Distance Challenge.

Though racing concludes on Friday and Saturday, June 29 and 30, fans attending the Q-Aces Racing Seminar can use what they learn to watch and wager on the races year round from Idabet.com, Idaho’s own online horse racing service.

The seminar will be hosted by Denis Blake, a former racing executive at numerous tracks as well as a writer for the Daily Racing Form.  He also has served as Racing Information Manager for the American Quarter Horse Association, Field Editor for American Quarter Horse Racing Journal and Editor of The Texas Thoroughbred Magazine.  Blake will offer insight into racing and to assist fans with their questions about handicapping.

Sandy Downs closing weekend will be highlighted by the Hawthorne Futurity...

TRIALS FOR SANDY DOWNS STAKES SET FOR FRIDAY;

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Sandy Downs will feature trials for Sandy Downs two big stakes races the $32,000 Hawthorne Futurity and the $24,000 Hadtobenuts Derby this Friday as the only race day of the week at the Idaho Falls track.  Leading trainer Brett Vickery sends out Country Girls Charm in the first race as the favorite in a field of eight.   The two-year-old broke her maiden in her debut at Dixie Downs on April 16 and ran third in her only start at Sandy Downs on June 11. The meet’s top jockey Paul Greene with 11 victories gets the mount.  The first three races will make up the Hawthorne Futurity Trials sponsored by Dr. Lonna Gerstner of the Hawthorne Animal Hospita,l who added $10,000 to the finals purse.  The Finals will be raced on July 30.

In the Hadtobenuts Derby Trials, Vickery and Greene team up again with Lajolla Famosa who lost his previous race in the $16,000 Sandy Downs Finals to Classic Blush.  The 3-year-old Idaho bred has an impressive five wins from eleven career starts.  Dan and Connie Moon owner of the stallion Hadtobenuts has added $7500 toward the purse of the Derby also to be contested on July 30.

Also on Friday’s card, Southern California shipper Lookin Mighty Good fresh off her maiden score by a whopping 5 ¾ lengths at Sandy Down is the top choice in the Post Register Allowance race. A field of seven go postward in the 4^th race.  Tyson Luck who won five races last weekend is aboard Ted’s Dream in the Sand Hill Media Allowance for owners Fred and Colleen Olson in the 7^th race.  Ted’s Dream was victorious in allowance company last week at the Minidoka County Fair in his only start of the year.

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