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Buy a racing program
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Always buy a program and write down the changes for all the races. The pari-mutuel clerks will be glad to help you with scratch information.
Sometimes people come up to me and ask, "Who do you really like in this race?" Let me tell you that I carry a responsibility to maintain the highest level of integrity for this sport, therefore I will always "play it as it lies," like in golf.
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Early start for big day of horse racing
The Big Fresno Fair offers an amazing 12-race card today, so come out and have some fun. Post time for today's first race has been moved up 15 minutes, to 12:30 p.m.
The Fresno Fair Horseracing Show - featuring Chris Terrence, Steve Cloud and me - airs at 9:30 p.m. on KJEO (digital channel 43.1, Comcast channel 10 or Dish channel 43) following each day of racing. The show features interviews with jockeys, trainers and owners, as well as the results and some picks for the next day.
Rob's Best Play: Race No. 4, Outback Melissa
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Local cyclists Race Across America
Local cyclists Roehl Caragao (Fresno) and Richard Hoff (Sanger) are part of a 16-rider team competing in the Race Across America, a 3,021-mile bike race from Oceanside to Annapolis, Md.
Team JDRF was heading toward Taos, N.M., on Monday evening, some 1,977 miles from the finish line. Teams typically ride between 350 and 500 miles daily.
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Busch cruises to fourth straight win at Texas
Kyle Busch won his fourth consecutive Nationwide Series race at Texas Motor Speedway with a flawless performance in Saturday's O'Reilly Challenge.
Busch started sixth, but blew by pole sitter Matt Kenseth for the lead after 10 laps. The Joe Gibbs Racing driver then led 179 laps in the 200-lap race to claim his series-high eighth victory of the season and the 29th of his career. Busch joined Brendan Gaughan as the only drivers to win four NASCAR races in a row at Texas. Gaughan picked up four straight Truck Series victories here from 2002-03.
"We out-wrestled all these guys today," Busch said. "This track is fun. It's fun when you have good cars of course."
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Rip Van Winkle no sleeper among British bookies
Rip Van Winkle is no sleeper in the $5 million Breeders' Cup Classic.
At least not according to the British bookmakers, who figure to install the European invader as the wagering favorite in Saturday's race at Santa Anita.
On this side of the Atlantic, Santa Anita oddsmaker Jon White said he would make Zenyatta the morning-line favorite if she runs against the boys for the first time in the Classic, as expected.
Fresno's Faron Reed finished the Ironman World Championship triathlon in 12:19.04, while Visalia's Missy LeStrange completed the competition in 12:16.00 on Saturday in Kailu-Kona, Hawaii.
Reed, 56, was 1,180 out of 1,736 men in the race and 27th out of 29 in his age division. He completed the 2.4-mile swim in 1:12.15, the 112-mile bike ride in 6:14.12 and the 26.2-mile run in 4:44.00.
LeStrange, 56, was 1,166 out of 1,736 women and third out of 30 in her age division. She finished the swim in 1:10.01, the bike ride in 6:30.48 and the run in 4:24.57.
Australia's Craig Alexander rallied to win the men's race in 8:17.45. Britain's Chrissie Wellington won her second consecutive women's title in 9:06:23.
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