bigboydan
08-13-2003, 09:59 AM
Big names to appear at races
The Times-Standard
FERNDALE -- America's best-known oddsmaker Roxy Roxborough, Daily Racing Form national correspondent and TV personality Jay Privman, and former jockey Ray York, who captured the 1954 Kentucky Derby aboard Determine, will be special guests Saturday at the Humboldt County Fair.
The famous trio, along with track announcer John McGary, will provide fans with a seminar on racing, handicap the day's program, answer questions and sign autographs in the special show that will start at noon at the east end of the track grandstand.
Roxborough headed up the Las Vegas Sports Consultants that provided 90 percent of casinos in Las Vegas with pre-game odds. He retired three years ago and moved to Thailand, but still consults with several Internet gambling companies.
He is also the head of a special group of racing enthusiasts, called the "Know Gamblers," who travel throughout the world to view horse racing. The group was at the Melbourne Cup in Australia last year and elected to visit Ferndale this year.
After a one-day break, meanwhile, racing will resume this afternoon with first post at 2:25 p.m. The Fair will continue through Sunday.
Privman is the lead writer for the Daily Racing Form, and also serves as a color analyst for TV coverage of top stakes races run throughout the United States. He will also be making his first trip to Ferndale.
York rode 3,100 winners in his storied career as a jockey, but is best remembered for his 1954 Kentucky Derby aboard Determine.
Sponsored by the California Authority of Racing Fairs (CARF), the special seminar will also have several prizes awarded free of charge to fans in attendance. The seminar will be hosted by McGary.
Heading into the second week of racing at the Fair, jockey Richard Sanchez and trainer Dennis Hopkins hold sizable leads in their respective divisions. Sanchez has booted home seven winners in the meet's first five days, while Hopkins, bidding for a fifth conditioning crown in the last seven years, has saddled five winners.
The Times-Standard
FERNDALE -- America's best-known oddsmaker Roxy Roxborough, Daily Racing Form national correspondent and TV personality Jay Privman, and former jockey Ray York, who captured the 1954 Kentucky Derby aboard Determine, will be special guests Saturday at the Humboldt County Fair.
The famous trio, along with track announcer John McGary, will provide fans with a seminar on racing, handicap the day's program, answer questions and sign autographs in the special show that will start at noon at the east end of the track grandstand.
Roxborough headed up the Las Vegas Sports Consultants that provided 90 percent of casinos in Las Vegas with pre-game odds. He retired three years ago and moved to Thailand, but still consults with several Internet gambling companies.
He is also the head of a special group of racing enthusiasts, called the "Know Gamblers," who travel throughout the world to view horse racing. The group was at the Melbourne Cup in Australia last year and elected to visit Ferndale this year.
After a one-day break, meanwhile, racing will resume this afternoon with first post at 2:25 p.m. The Fair will continue through Sunday.
Privman is the lead writer for the Daily Racing Form, and also serves as a color analyst for TV coverage of top stakes races run throughout the United States. He will also be making his first trip to Ferndale.
York rode 3,100 winners in his storied career as a jockey, but is best remembered for his 1954 Kentucky Derby aboard Determine.
Sponsored by the California Authority of Racing Fairs (CARF), the special seminar will also have several prizes awarded free of charge to fans in attendance. The seminar will be hosted by McGary.
Heading into the second week of racing at the Fair, jockey Richard Sanchez and trainer Dennis Hopkins hold sizable leads in their respective divisions. Sanchez has booted home seven winners in the meet's first five days, while Hopkins, bidding for a fifth conditioning crown in the last seven years, has saddled five winners.