Super High Five Wagering Expands

For every racecourse and racing event, it is vital to lure punters to wagering on a race and their favorite horse. Betting is an important source of income, and for spectators it is the hope that their choice is right on the money and that they are able to take home some winnings. As it is always said, and everyone is reminded, horse racing is a sport and the outcome is never guaranteed, therefore, different betting and wagering forms are created to keep punters interested and offer them a greater chance of winning.

Heart Monitors Assist Training

As with human athletes, horses need to build up fitness and strength over a period of time before running in any racing events. Once a satisfactory fitness level has been achieved, it is crucial for trainers to maintain the horses in that condition and to ensure that they remain free of injury or illness. As technology has improved, so have the methods of assisting trainers and horse owners to keep their horses conditioned. Heart monitors have become an invaluable device for everyone in the horse racing industry, and a friend to the health and well-being of horses.

Will Pyro Gain a Kentucky Derby Victory?

As the date for the anticipated Kentucky Derby draws closer, horses that are set to run in this magnificent racing event are being watched extremely closely. Their performance closer to the event will determine betting and influence wagering greatly. With some horses digging deep and delivering outstanding racing performances, contenders, such as Pyro, have secured their spot in the top ten favorites for the race.

The March OBS Sale Tops the Charts

The OBS sale, or Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co, had one of its most successful sales recently when comparing the figures from this year with those from last year. Two year old horses that are in training sold for record prices, and even though the number of horses sold was less than in 2007, the gross revenue made it into the record books. Everyone who attended commented on the electrifying atmosphere that surrounded the March sale, as breeders showed off their best horses and buyers scrambled to enter the highest bids.

African Horse Sickness Prevention

African Horse Sickness, or AHS, is a phrase that every horse owner, trainer and exporter fears the most in South Africa and other African countries. It is a fatal disease that affects all breeds of horses, donkeys and mules, and has a very low recovery rate. The disease is not contagious and cannot be spread directly from one horse to another, but is spread by midges that carry the infection after biting an infected horse. Steps to prevent the spread of the disease have been put in place, and infected animals are isolated so as to save others from running the risk of getting African Horse Sickness.

Kauto Star will continue to Shine

In 2004, bloodstock agent, Anthony Bromley, was standing in France looking at a horse named Kauto Star. He was determined to purchase the horse for his client, Clive Smith, and paid over 400 000 Euros on Smith’s behalf. It would turn out to be the purchase of the century, as Kauto Star stepped out onto the racecourse and started to cement his place in National Hunt history. Numbered amongst some of the greatest names in National Hunt racing, Kauto Star will long be remembered for his fighting spirit and his determination to give his best at all times. But for the time being, he will carry on winning hearts, support and admiration.

Top International Racing in Singapore this May

In the year 2000, the Singapore Racecourse was inaugurated in Kranji and the Singapore Airlines International Cup was held for the first time. It is the only horse racing event in Singapore that is open to international competitors and received its Group 1 status in 2002. During the first few years of this two thousand meter flat racing event, it seemed that the Asian countries would not be able to dominate the Singapore Airlines International Cup, but that all changed in 2006 and 2007, with two Japanese horses named Cosmo Bulk and Shadow Gate.

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