USA / Canada

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After six years, Racing Hill returns to the racetrack

https://ustrottingnews.com/after-six...the-racetrack/

Greed personified?

A little bit more logical than entering Soho Tribeca in the Inter Dominion.

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Trainer Ron Burke tops 1000 wins in a season again

https://ustrottingnews.com/burke-tops-1000-wins-again/

Lifetime, he has won 13,315 races and just over $295 million in purses, both records for a trainer.

Second in career wins among trainers is Virgil Morgan Jr., with a total approaching 7,200. Second in lifetime purses is Jimmy Takter, who retired with $130 million to his credit.

This season he is more than double the next closest in earnings and more than triple the next closest in wins
That is domination

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Burke cannot be liked by the media as

Jim Campbell, the winner of the Garnsey Trainer of the Year Award, had a fine UTR for 2022 of .428, and put up his third-best seasonal earnings figure, nearing $2.9M, after starting far few horses than he did in his two best years for earnings.

Jim earned $750,000 of that lofty earnings figure in the space of two hours on Aug. 6 at The Meadowlands, where he became only the third trainer to send out the winners of the Hambletonian (Cool Papa Bell) and the Hambletonian Oaks (Fashion Schooner) in one year.

https://ustrottingnews.com/brad-gran...r-of-the-year/

Burke earnt over $22m compared to Campbell's $2.9m (Burke has won it 3 times in the past - two of which were other 1,000 winner seasons)

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The Ron Burke Stable is training 75 2-year-olds

https://ustrottingnews.com/burke-tra...aining-roster/

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He has 12 Sweet Lou and 11 Downbytheseaside
Going on last year's leading 2yo Sires table he is definitely under-represented on Captaintreacherous and a bit under on Huntsville, American Ideal and Lazarus

https://www.ustrotting.com/trackside...&yr=2022&age=2

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Betting Line's top 2yo earnt $57k US so you can see why he is dead in the water over there
Captaintreacherous had 9 earn over $150k US

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Some takes from an interesting article

https://harnesslink.com/usa/economic...owards-owners/

Despite a positive rise in in purses paid and in the number of race days held in the USA for 2022, the total wagering number was down -8.44% over 2021. While in Canada, which was shut down for a lot of 2020 and 2021 due to Covid restrictions or raced without spectators showed an increase in both wagering and purses paid of a dramatic +40% increase in both categories.

JAY HOCHSTETLER, owner, trainer, driver – “This is probably a topic that deserves an academic research paper rather than my deductions because I think it is so multi-faceted, but every part combines together to create the massive discrepancy in handle change. Canadian tracks programs are accessible for free to anyone while US tracks are behind paywalls. That’s just a sign of respect to the bettor lots of people are drawn to.

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Betting Line's top 2yo earnt $57k US so you can see why he is dead in the water over there
Captaintreacherous had 9 earn over $150k US

Betting Line breeding statistics the USTA Stallion Showcase:

http://stars.ustrotting.com/stallion.cfm?stallion_id=

First season at stud resulted in 2018 122 live foals at Hanover Shoe Farms

Last year 2022, 23 live foals.standing at Winbak in Canada.

He was shunted quite quickly.

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Nick Surick sentenced to 62 months in prison

In addition, Surick was ordered to pay restitution in the total amount of $42,752,532 to the victims of the offenses of conviction.


https://ustrottingnews.com/nick-suri...ths-in-prison/

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Lochinvar wins