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BREAKING NEWS: REQUEST BY STAFF TO APPROVE CHANGE IN OWNERSHIP OF ELLIS PARK RACECOURSE, LLC 

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Kentucky United We Stand, Divided We Fall

Commonwealth of Kentucky
Public Protection Cabinet

Kentucky Horse Racing Commission

Matthew G. Bevin, Governor

David A. Dickerson, Secretary

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Susan West
502-564-5525
Susan.west@ky.gov

Kentucky Horse Racing Commission Meets Tuesday

FRANKFORT, Ky. (July 16, 2018) - The Kentucky Horse Racing Commission will hold a special meeting at 1:30 p.m., Tuesday, July 17, 2018, in the Grand Prix Seminar Room of the United States Dressage Federation, located inside the Kentucky Horse Park at 4051 Iron Works Parkway, Lexington, KY 40511.

The agenda follows:

I. Call to Order and Roll Call

II. New Business

A. Churchill Downs’ Updated Request to Offer Historical Horse Race Wagering

B. Request by Churchill Downs to Approve the Ainsworth Game Technology Historical Horse Racing System and Entertaining Game Themes

C. Request by staff to approve change in ownership of Ellis Park Racecourse, LLC 

III. Adjournment

Three arrested after theft and battery (Greene County)

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Indiana Conservation Officers responded to a call of theft and battery after Willis R. Martindale III, 18, Dugger, was found injured on the side of a rural road at or about 10:00 p.m. on July 14, 2018.  William E. Jeffrey, 18, Dugger, Kristine L. Nichols, 25, and William C. Edmondson III, 25, both of Linton, were arrested and are facing multiple felony drug, theft, and battery related charges.

The investigation stemmed from a passerby who found Martindale battered along County Road 400 South near T Lake in Dugger.  Martindale had sustained a broken nose, several bruises and lacerations to his face.  He informed officers he was driven from Dugger to the area by two men and a woman, where he was then allegedly strangled and beaten over the head multiple times with a handgun.  Martindale reported that the suspects stole $1000 in cash from him and a backpack valued at $790 before leaving him alongside the road.

Indiana Conservation Officers checked several houses in Greene, Sullivan, and Knox counties while attempting to locate the vehicle and three suspects.  All three were located and arrested in a residence in Bicknell.  Nearly $600 in cash and 4.3 ounces of marijuana divided into several individual bags were also recovered at the residence.

Bicknell City Police Department, Vincennes Police Department, and Jasonville Police Department also assisted with the investigation.

Vehicle collision

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The Vanderburgh County Coroner’s Office and the Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s Office are investigating the death of an individual at US 41 at I64. The victim was the driver of a semi-tractor that overturned at that location. The victim has been identified as Kenneth L. White, age 48, of Shelbyville, KY. He was pronounced dead at the scene at 02:08 hours.. An autopsy has been scheduled for 09:00 hours on 07-17-2018.  The Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s Office can provide information as to their ongoing investigation.

VANDERBURGH COUNTY FELONY CHARGESzc

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Below are the felony cases to be filed by the Vanderburgh County Prosecutor’s Office today.

Quinyatte Jermaine Harrell: Failure to register as a sex or violent offender (Level 5 Felony)

Deborah Lyn Petrangelo: Domestic battery (Level 5 Felony), Battery against a public safety official (Level 6 Felony), Resisting law enforcement (Class A misdemeanor)

Jeffery Allen Beckham: Theft (Level 6 Felony), Criminal mischief (Class B misdemeanor)VANDERBURGH COUNTY FELONY CHARGES

Kaly Elyse Shepherd: Domestic battery (Level 6 Felony)

David Markell Flax: Unlawful possession of firearm by a serious violent felon (Level 4 Felony), Carrying a handgun without a license (Level 5 Felony), AttemptBattery by means of a deadly weapon (Level 5 Felony), Criminal recklessness (Level 6 Felony), Criminal mischief (Class B misdemeanor)

Marissa Nicole Flaherty: Possession of a narcotic drug (Level 6 Felony), Unlawful possession or use of a legend drug (Level 6 Felony), False informing (Class B misdemeanor)

Daily Scriptures for the Week of July 16, 2018

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MONDAY

“One thing I ask from the Lord, this only do I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the Lord and to seek him in his temple.”

Psalm 27:4 NIV

TUESDAY

“For in the day of trouble he will keep me safe in his dwelling; he will hide me in the shelter of his sacred tent and set me high upon a rock.”

Psalm 27:5 NIV

WEDNESDAY

“Then my head will be exalted above the enemies who surround me; at his sacred tent I will sacrifice with shouts of joy; I will sing and make music to the Lord.”

Psalm 27:6 NIV

THURSDAY

“The Lord is my light and my salvation— whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life— of whom shall I be afraid?” Psalm 27:1 NIV

FRIDAY

“When the wicked advance against me to devour me, it is my enemies and my foes who will stumble and fall.”

Psalm 27:2 NIV

SATURDAY

“Though an army besiege me, my heart will not fear; though war break out against me, even then I will be confident.”

Psalm 27:3 NIV

SUNDAY

“Hear my voice when I call, Lord; be merciful to me and answer me.” Psalm 27:7 NIV

Submitted to the City-County Observer by Karen Seltzer

Otters Swept Away In Doubleheader By CornBelters

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The Evansville Otters dropped both games of a doubleheader against the Normal CornBelters on Sunday at The Corn Crib by final scores of 6-5 and 5-0 as Normal completed the three-game sweep of Evansville over the weekend.

In the first game of the doubleheader, Ryan Long wasted no time to open up the scoring as he hit a two-run homer in the first inning to put the Otters up 2-0.

David Cronin made it a 3-0 game with an RBI single in the second.

Daniel Spingola brought home the fourth run of the game for the Otters with a sacrifice fly in the third.

Normal got back into the game in the bottom of the fourth. Andrew Godbold brought home a run with an RBI single and Nick Cain made it a 4-2 game with an RBI groundout. A balk from Tyler Vail allowed a run to score to make it a 4-3 game.

Evansville added a run in the top of the fifth on a Toby Thomas RBI double.

Normal tied the game on a Godbold two-run homer in the bottom of the sixth.

Derrick Loveless ended the game in the bottom of the seventh with a walk-off RBI single to right to give Normal the 6-5 victory.

Tyler Beardsley is hung with the loss for the second straight game after allowing three runs in 1.1 innings.

Anthony Herrera gets the win after tossing a clean seventh frame.

Otters starter Vail pitched well but does not factor into the decision. Vail threw five innings, allowing three runs while striking out five.

Zack Kirby also receives a no-decision after starting for the CornBelters and giving up five runs, four earned, in 4.2 innings.

The Otters were then shutout in the second game of the doubleheader as they fell 5-0 to Normal.

The second game of the twin bill stayed scoreless for the first four innings before Normal broke through in the fifth.

James Davison Jr. plated the first run of the game on a ground rule double. Justin Fletcher then singled to left, and an error form Hunter Cullen in left allowed Davison Jr. to score from second base. Santiago Chirino then scored Fletcher with an RBI double. Andrew Godbold capped off the inning with a two-run double to make it 5-0 Normal.

Jonathan De Marte tossed the final two frames in scoreless fashion to seal the 5-0 win for Normal.

Jack Landwehr gets the win for Normal after shutting out the Otters for five innings and limiting Evansville to just two hits.

Randy Wynne picks up his sixth loss of the season for the Otters. Wynne went 4.1 innings and allowed five runs on 10 hits while striking out three.

The Otters will now return to Bosse Field for a six-game homestand July 17-22, featuring $2 Tuesday, Deaconess and Orthopedic Associates Night, German Heritage Night and Thirsty Thursday, Kyndle Night, Princess Night and Fellowship Day and Family Fun Day.

Sevier Gives Cox Tie For Trainer Lead After 0 For 13 Start

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Trainer Brad Cox, who ranks fourth in North America for overall wins, went 0 for 13 to start the Ellis Park meet, with five of those being seconds. But those seconds have been turning into victories, with Cox winning with four of his next five starters.
That includes front-running Sevier taking a $43,000 allowance race Sunday with a $40,000 optional claiming price by 2 3/4 lengths over Town Classic, motoring six furlongs in 1:08.77 over a muddy track that was packed down. The track record is 1:07.89, set in 2015 by the accomplished Limousine Liberal.
“He’s just really grown and become like a really confident horse,” said Tessa Bisha, who oversees Cox’s Ellis Park stable of 72 strong. “He has a way he likes to do things, and you don’t get in his way. He’s just come into his own once we figured out what he wanted to do. He’s been very consistent since then. He just wants to be left alone. He could probably run from wherever, but you can’t tell him you’re going to rate him. He gets high on being on the lead.”
The irony is that Shortleaf Stable’s 4-year-old colt is bred for stamina, being by Belmont Stakes winner Union Rags and out of mare by Horse of the Year Mineshaft.
“He’s bred to go 1 1/4 miles, but he’s built like a sprinter,” said Robby Albarado after his third win on the card.
“He looks like a hotrod,” Bisha said. “He’s kind of butt-high, that real hotrod look to him, even though he is a big horse and long legs. He’s bred to be a classic-distance horse. But we tried it, it didn’t work out at all. We kind of figured out he’s a six-furlong to a one-turn mile kind of guy.”
All four of the Cox stable’s victories have come in allowance races in a three-day span that saw the barn jump from 0-fer to tied for the lead with Chris Hartman.
“Now that Brad’s barn is fairly large, I think we have a more consistent cycle of horses,” Bisha said. “Where it used to be we’d kind of run them all hard over the winter at Oaklawn and Fair Grounds, meets where we really love to do well. I mean, we love to do well everywhere. But this year we had horses coming around fresh for Keeneland and fresh for Churchill.”
The lifelong Louisvillian had huge meets at the Fair Grounds, where he was the leading trainer for the second straight year; at Keeneland, where he tied Wesley Ward for the spring title; and at Churchill Downs, where his 24 victories ranked second only to Steve Asmussen’s 30 but his $1,616,482 topped the standings. That included taking track’s second-biggest race, the Kentucky Oaks won by Monomoy Girl.
“I don’t really know what explains the seconds,” Bisha said of the first part of the Ellis meet. “I feel like we have the ammunition to win consistently. We had a couple that were really short prices that should have had the consistency of form and the ability to do it and just didn’t fire.”
Two of their winners have fired off long layoffs, including Term of Art taking a second-level allowance Saturday in his first start since the Grade 2 Pennsylvania Derby almost 10 months ago.
“That was a horse that should have outclassed that field,” she said. “It’s just that he hadn’t had the confidence-building experience of a win in quite a while.”
The filly Sense of Bravery is 2 for 2 since joining Cox’s stable and after a nine-month layoff, winning a Churchill Downs maiden race and an Ellis allowance Friday to start the barn’s streak. Turner Time, a winner Saturday, came in off a four-month break.
Cox, whose first training title anywhere was in 2015 at Ellis Park, has started only a handful of 2-year-olds this meet but has said the track figures prominently into his development of the stable’s young horses.
“I think that as he’s developing a name for himself with these more classic-distance races, he’s been getting more horses with that long pedigree,” Bisha said. “There are a few here that we love the way they’re training but we just don’t feel they’re going to be ready as early as we thought. Last year we had more horses that showed (precociousness), and this year it’s been more of a developing game, really trying to make sure they’re ready for that first experience.”
Of course that’s exactly what happened last summer when Monomoy Girl trained all summer at Ellis Park before making her first start after the meet ended at Indiana Grand.
“We had her all summer here last year,” Bisha said. “She was no doubt talented, but we had no idea the depth of that talent until we saw her run a couple of times. None of us knew she’d become what she did. We liked her but we didn’t know she’d be who she is. She was a horse that was really immature mentally, so we picked the easiest race we could find, where we thought she wouldn’t get run off her feet.”
Cox easily leads the Ellis money standings at $160,586 so far this meet. For the year in North America, he has 143 wins, good for fourth in the standings and only two behind Robertino Diodoro. Karl Broberg leads at 307, with Steve Asmussen at 218. Cox had a huge night at Indiana Grand Saturday, winning three stakes and finishing second in two others out of the five stakes in which he participated. Pinch Hit, who won the Mari Hulman George, is expected to make her next start in Ellis Park’s Grade 3 Groupie Doll on Aug. 12.
Hartman-trained Excessivespending takes open allowance
Trainer Chris Hartman kept up his hot hand at Ellis Park, with the 4-year-old filly Excessivespending drawing off in the stretch for a three-quarters of a length victory over Justa Lady in Sunday’s $45,000 open allowance race.
Hartman won for a meet-leading fourth time out of his first six starts, then had a second in two more starts Sunday. He won the first two races on July 5 and was in the paddock for the third race when Ellis Park called off the remaining races out of safety concerns with the extreme heat.
“So far it’s gone well,” Hartman said of the meet. “It’s a little better when you get to run, right? This filly actually must love Ellis, because she’s won both starts here.”
Excessivespending, a daughter of Preakness winner Shackleford, ran 5 1/2 furlongs over turf rated “good” in 1:04.15 over the Wright Implement grass course. She now is 4-4-1 in 17 starts. Hartman said Excessivespending could be pointed toward a race at Kentucky Downs, perhaps the $450,000, Grade 3 Kentucky Downs Ladies Sprint.
 “Horses who run well over the turf here seem to like it over there,” Hartman said. “So it’s definitely in the wheelhouse for her if we can get the right spot.”
It was the first time that Hartman had ridden Martin Chuan, who recently relocated from his native Peru, where he was the leading rider.
 “I think he’s a very good rider,” Hartman said of Chuan, who has two wins, two seconds and a third in 11 mounts this meet. “This is the first horse he’s ridden for me, but I’ve watched him ride a handful of races and some of his races on video. He rides a really good race, smart rider. I think he’s going to make it.”
Hartman said he used a translator to give Chuan instructions in the paddock. “He rode, I mean, the absolute exactly what we asked of him in this race,” he said. “I think he’s a pretty good horseman, too, watching him work horses in the morning. He does a good job.”
Chuan is 22 years old, as his agent, Jake Romans, son of trainer Dale Romans. “Jake’s got a pretty good little rider there,” Hartman said. “He’s starting off good, too — Jake and the rider.”
Apprentice jockey Edgar Morales won two races Sunday to take an 11-10 lead over James Graham, with one winner on the card, in the meet riding standings.
Week ahead: Making of a Racehorse and College Day on tap
The fan-education program Making of a Racehorse has its first of two dates Saturday, July 21, starting at 7 a.m. Central by the starting gate in the mile chute, positioned by the south end of the parking lot near the Kentucky exit and the Ohio River bridges. The free, family-friendly session will include a visit to trainer John Hancock’s barn (with young children getting supervised pony rides), a tour of the jockeys’ room and an up-close look at how racing cards are put together in the racing office. Retired jockey and current jockey agent Francisco Torres will be among the hosts. The program is scheduled to end around 10:30 a.m. and is structured to provide flexibility for those who can’t stay the entire time. Participants are welcome to buy breakfast in the track kitchen.
Staged in conjunction with the Kentucky HBPA, which represents owners and trainers at Kentucky’s five tracks, Making of a Racehorse is designed to give the public an up-close look at what goes on in the mornings to prepare horses for racing in the afternoons. The second and last session with be Saturday, Aug. 18.
The Kentucky HBPA also is teaming with Ellis Park on Sunday, July 22 for College Day, with a laptop computer and $1,000 scholarship given out via drawing after every race to a full-time student. Sign-ups will be at the north end of the grandstand tunnel, nearest the open-air tents and paddock. Students should bring valid college I.D. or acceptance letter from a college, university, junior or community, trade or technical college.
The popular Furniture Day returns Sunday, July 29. Best Home Furnishings will give away a piece of furniture via drawing after each of eight races.

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