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Saturday is the Grade 3, $100,000 Lazaro Barrera Memorial at Betfair Hollywood Park, which drew a field of only four. Drill and American Act finished noses apart in the Grade 2 San Vicente - now they have to transfer that form to the cushion track.
The big race of the day is the Grade 2, $200,000 Peter Pan Stakes at Belmont Park, a nine-furlong event.
If Mark Valeski can run back to his nose loss in the Grade 2 Risen Star he will be tough to beat.
There have been many famous chestnuts to win the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes. Horses like Whirlaway and Secretariat, two colts that also went on to win the Belmont Stakes and thus become Triple Crown Champions, are among the most notable.
With all the excitement going on and the launch of our new web game plus the Preakness and summer racing closing in fast, we decided to initiate a nice television campaign starting next week. Our commercials will hopefully be running on TVG, HRTV and our fingers are crossed, on NBC during the Preakness.
The new servers have been configured, the server farm is set up and data is being transported over. Today we had to take the site down for about 45 minutes while we ran some database tests. This process will probably happen again over the next couple of days.
Saturday's 138th Kentucky Derby features a full field of 20. Bodemeister's big 9 1/2 length win in the Arkansas Derby will give him likely favoritism over Union Rags who finished runner up in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile last year.
Over the last two days, we started migrating small amounts of data to our new server farm. A migration is a slow process and is taking longer than we realized. Simultaneously, we're dealing with excessively large volumes of traffic due to the Triple Crown racing season. We will stop data migration and continue again Tuesday.
The field for the 138th Kentucky Derby will be finalized on May 2 when post positions are drawn for the first leg of the Triple Crown at Churchill Downs. The Kentucky Derby Post Position Draw will be televised from from 5-6 p.m. Eastern on NBC Sports Network, which was formerly known as Versus.
6:24 p.m. on Saturday, May 5, 2012!!!
The May 4 $1 million Kentucky Oaks at Churchill Downs drew 14 horses. One of the favorites is Grace Hall coming off a big 6 length win in the Gulfstream Park Oaks. On Fire Baby and Broadway's Alibi will both get play as well. Both are coming into the Oaks in very good form.
If you missed our national TV spot that ran Preakness Day on NBC at approximately 6:39 pm EDT, don’t worry you can watch the commercial right now. It was an exciting experience for us and we want to thank our partners – Preakness.com and their parent company, Maryland Jockey Club, and MI Developments – specifically Frank Stronach, the man behind the entire operation – an incredible individual whose love for horse racing is surpassed by no one, and, of course, the rest of his executive racing team who believe in new technologies to build racing fans. This amazing organization that we’re privileged to work with provided us a national spot in front of over 15 million people Preakness Day. This was the opportunity to test the waters to see what kind of demand is out there for a program like ours. Tens of thousands of people visited the site on our busiest day ever and thousands of new accounts were created.
The future of horse racing lies with the next generation. Horse racing is an exciting sport and now has tremendous opportunity to rebuild its fan base. We look forward to participating and helping partners like MI Developments, the Maryland Jockey Club, and their individual racetracks to create more awareness and demand for this wonderful sport.
LW