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The TAB are happy for punters to lose, that is whythey advertise for punters and give bonus bets etc. If punters want to offload $100 bets then that is fine but if others want to offload larger amount  then that should be great for the TAB! Gambling business I thought the TAB was? In life people do things at different levels and different abilities!

$1k cash or betting vouchers is not a large amount in todays money! No problem with having a limit but needs to be higher as it is hindering wagering. Do you really believe that money launderers would be gambling on horses to launder money  for $1k?  

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It was nothing less than a perfect GI Pegasus World Cup Invitational for trainer Saffie Joseph Jr., who finished one-two in the $3-million race with Skippylongstocking (Exaggerator) and White Abarrio (Race Day). To talk about his big day at Gulfstream, his concerns that White Abarrio would not run well, and plans for the two 7-year-olds going forward, Joseph joined this week's TDN Writers' Room Podcast presented by Keeneland. Joseph was the Gainesway Guest of the Week. White Abarrio had not run since the Aug. 31 GI Jockey Club Gold Cup at Saratoga and was then a vet scratch in the minutes before the running of the GI Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile. Joseph admitted that he wasn't sure whether White Abarrio could overcome all the obstacles that had been thrown at him. Even though White Abarrio was beaten by his stablemate, Joseph was openly emotional over how well he ran. “I reacted the way I did because of everything he's been through,” Joseph said. “There was a lot of pressure. There was his high-profile scratch before the Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile as he got on the track. Whether the reason was legitimate or not, the vets decided to scratch him. So when something like that happens, you have to go through all these protocols where you have to make sure that you go over this horse from head to toe. You have many different people look at him and almost every person who looks at a horse is going to have a different opinion. So just to go through all that was hard. “And then the horse was good until Thanksgiving and then, after Thanksgiving, we were searching to try to get something out of him that basically wasn't there. That's the worst thing you can do as far as training a horse. We went ahead and we pulled his shoes and went to a different type of shoe. We went back to nail-on shoes, and that was a big mistake. We went from being good for a couple of weeks to where we were way behind schedule. [Blacksmith] Ian McKinley came in from New York and he looked at him and he said he would get him to how we wanted him. He did a marvelous job. All the credit goes to him.” Joseph knew that if White Abarrio ran poorly, he would be subject to second-guessing. “The situation created a lot of pressure,” he said. “We worked the horse and everything is checking out fine, but there is pressure that you don't want something to happen to the horse. And then someone would say, 'I told you, we told you that.' That could happen to any horse on any given day. You just don't want the horse to go out there and run tenth or eleventh because it's going to be the same kind of talk from the naysayers. It's always easy to talk after. Before, it's a lot harder. Thank God the horse went out there and showed up and ran big.” The only thing White Abarrio did wrong was that he wasn't quite good enough to beat Skippylongstocking, the veteran campaigner who picked up his first Grade I win during a career that spanned 36 starts. “[Skippylongstocking] had everything go right for him,” Joseph said. “We went into the Harlan's Holiday and that was kind of like a barrier going into the Pegasus. We thought he was getting there, but he was coming off a bad run at Charles Town. We needed to see him run well before we could have any confidence. When he won the Harlan's Holiday, we felt good and we felt like he should move forward quite a bit. He gave us all the confidence going into the Pegasus that he was going to run one of his best races, but you never know until they do it.” The main reason that both Joseph horses are still running at seven is because they are not fashionably enough bred to be sought after by the major breeding farms and they keep making money on the racetrack. Still, Joseph said this likely would be the last year for both. “I think it would be good for them to go off next year to stud,” he said. “There have been offers for White Abarrio, but nothing the owners were ready to accept or good enough for them. White Abarrio definitely has a great resume. He's won the Breeders' Cup Classic, the Whitney, two runnings of the Pegasus, the Florida Derby. So to have a horse with that resume…there's not many that have that kind of resume.” Joseph said he was not yet sure where the two would run next but added that the GII Oaklawn Handicap and the GI Dubai World Cup would be under consideration for both. The “Fastest Horse of the Week” was Knightsbridge (Nyquist), who earned a 105 Beyer figure when winning the Jan. 24 GIII Fred Hooper Stakes on the Pegasus World Cup undercard. The Fastest Horse of the Week segment is sponsored by WinStar, which stands Timberlake. Elsewhere on the podcast, which is also sponsored by the PHBA, 1/ST TV, the KTOB and West Point Thoroughbreds, Randy Moss and Bill Finley took a look back at the Eclipse Awards and discussed Finley's suggestion that a rule be instituted that requires a horse to make at least two starts in North America to be eligible for championship honors. They also looked back at Graham Motion's one-two finish with Test Score (Lookin At Lucky) and One Stripe (SAf) (One World {SAf}) in the GI Pegasus World Cup Turf Invitational. Looking ahead, Moss and Finley gave their picks for this week's major prep for the GI Kentucky Derby, the GIII Holy Bull Stakes at Gulfstream Park. The post Saffie Joseph Jr. Joins The TDN Writers’ Room Podcast Presented by Keeneland appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

Godolphin and Charlie Appleby have dominated Kempton's Unibet Supports Safer Gambling Maiden Stakes in recent years, annexing recent renewals with elite-level winners Opera Ballo (Ghaiyyath), Notable Speech (Dubawi) and Measured Time (Frankel). The axis unleashed another potential heavyweight on Wednesday evening as 750,000gns Tattersalls Book 1 yearling Palladas (Lope De Vega) delivered a power-packed debut display to attain 'TDN Rising Star, presented by Hagyard' status in the one-mile contest. Palladas settled into a smooth rhythm and lobbed along in sixth after an alert getaway. Cruising forward once into the home straight, the 6-5 favourite powered to the front passing the furlong marker and thundered clear in the latter stages to easily outclass Al Azd (Dubawi) by an impressive 2 3/4 lengths. Palladas is the fourth of five foals and third scorer from as many runners produced by Listed River Eden Stakes third Isabella (Galileo), herself a daughter of Listed Blenheim Stakes victrix Song Of My Heart (Footstepsinthesand). Song Of My Heart is also the dam of G3 Musidora Stakes third Pandora (Galileo) and the dual stakes-placed Allegio (Galileo). The March-foaled chestnut is a half-brother to GIII La Jolla Handicap victor and GII Del Mar Derby runner-up Maltese Falcon (Caravaggio) and the unraced two-year-old colt Helvellyn (Pinatubo).   The post Godolphin’s Palladas Powers to TDN Rising Stardom at Kempton appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

Getaway Car is one of two sons of Curlin set for the San Pasqual Stakes (G2) Jan. 31 at Santa Anita Park, with veteran Midnight Mammoth a major contender.View the full article

Artificial intelligence on the track and the emerging threats of prediction markets and wagering are among the salient topics to be discussed at the National HBPA Conference March 3-7 in Hot Springs, Ark., at Oaklawn Park.View the full article

In this series, we will have a look predominantly at American-bred first-time juvenile starters (through the end of 2025) and debuting 3-year-olds in maiden races at Meydan Racecourse, with a specific focus on pedigree and/or performance in a sales ring. The flagship venue for racing in the United Arab Emirates is Meydan Racecourse, which will host racing on Fridays through the end of March, with the exception of Super Saturday on Feb. 28 and Dubai World Cup night Mar. 28, 2026. Here are the horses of note for this Friday's program at Meydan: Friday, January 30, 2026 2nd-MEY, AED165,000 ($44,913), Maiden, 3yo, 1600m SALLOOM (Authentic) debuts for the Dubai-based string of horses for the Stables of King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Sons and trainer Bhupat Seemar on the back of a good-looking trial victory from close range back on Jan. 7 (see below). An. Apr. 14 foal,  the bay is the third to race out of a winning daughter of the Grade III-placed Chasethegold (Touch Gold), herself the dam of the GSP juvenile filly Goldrush Girl (Political Force) and granddam of a trio of 3-year-old stakes winners: 2025 GII Wood Memorial Stakes hero Rodriguez (Authentic); GIII Southwest Stakes hero One Liner (Into Mischief); and Hutcheson Stakes scorer Provocateur (Into Mischief). The female family also includes Grade I winners Albertus Maximus and Daredevil. A $175,000 Keeneland September acquisition, Salloom breezed a furlong in :9 4/5 (see below) at the 2025 OBS March Sale and brought a healthy $600,000. Stable go-to rider Tadhg O'Shea rides from gate two.     Bato (Street Sense) was a $115,000 buyback out of the 2024 Keeneland September Sale but found a new home when hammering for 140,000gns ($193,887) at last year's Tattersalls Craven Breeze-Up (video). The Jan. 20 produce is a son of 2020 Martha Washington Stakes winner Lucky Polly (Lookin At Lucky), a half-sister to 10 winners, among them the stakes-winning former 'TDN Rising Star' presented by Hagyard Undulated (Curlin). Bato's now-juvenile half-brother by Jackie's Warrior fetched $280,000 at Keeneland last September. The post Desert Doings: Saudi-Owned Authentic Colt Looms Large on Debut appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

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