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Vanderburgh County Recent Booking Reports

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“READERS FORUM” OCTOBER 29, 2017

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WHATS ON YOUR MIND TODAY?

We hope that todays “Readers Forum” will provoke “…honest and open dialogue concerning issues that we, as responsible citizens of this community, need to address in a rational and responsible way?”
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Romans 2-Year-Olds Work For Breeders’ Cup Juvenile

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Romans 2-Year-Olds Work For Breeders’ Cup Juvenile
DEL MAR, Calif. (Saturday, Oct. 28, 2017) — Dale Romans doesn’t know if the Albaugh Family Stables’ 2-year-olds Free Drop Bill and Hollywood Star are as talented as his 2016 standout Not This Time. But the Louisville-based trainer believes both are good enough and doing well enough to win next Saturday’s $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile at Del Mar — the championship-crowning race that Not This Time narrowly lost last year at Santa Anita.
Free Drop Billy, the sharp winner of Keeneland’s Grade 1 Claiborne Breeders’ Futurity in his last start after losing Saratoga’s Hopeful in a photo finish, enhanced his growing reputation with a workout which the clockers timed for three-quarters of a mile in 1:14 2/5 Saturday morning at Del Mar. That followed an impressive move of five-eighths in 59 3/5 seconds at Santa Anita a week earlier, the fastest of 70 works at the distance.
“A year ago we had an awfully special horse,” said Romans, who as early as Sunday could overtake Hall of Famer Bill Mott as Churchill Downs’ all-time win leader. “I always say he’s the best 2-year-old I’ve ever had in Not This Time. But Billy is a horse that just keeps getting better and better and better. He’s so athletic, the way he gets over the racetrack and does things so easy. His two works in California have been absolutely spectacular. If he’s good enough, he’ll win.”
Romans called it a five-eighths of a mile work, which he clocked in 1:01, with a six-furlong gallop-out time of 1:13 3/5. He said the plan was to “just sit on him and without encouraging him, see what he wanted to do on his own. He had a fast work last week, and this week we wanted to leave a little bit in the tank. Hard to fill your tank up with seven days to a race if you empty it out.”
Tammy Fox, Romans’ life partner who is Free Drop Billy’s exercise rider, said that while last week’s work was quicker, she liked this one even better.
“He felt stronger to me,” she said. “He just skips over this racetrack. You don’t hear anything from him. He could sneak up a horse and neither the rider or the other horse would ever know it. That’s how quiet he is.
“Going into a big race like this a week out, everything is good. You couldn’t ask him to do any better. He’s not a big horse, but for his size, his stride is bigger than what you’d think. Just so fluent, and he reaches. Every step he makes on that dirt is just more of a reach for him. You can feel the acceleration and the power that he brings to me. That’s what I feel in my hands. It’s a pretty cool feeling.”
Not so impressive was Hollywood Star, a close second to 3-for-3 Juvenile hopeful The Tabulator in Churchill Downs’ Grade 2 Iroquois, who worked more lethargically. Hollywood Star was timed five-eighths of a mile in 1:02 in a short-lived experiment wearing blinkers. Hollywood Star, a $650,000 yearling purchase by the Spendthrift Farm stallion Malibu Moon and out of the multiple Grade 1-winner Hollywood Story, worked in 1:00 3/5 last week at Santa Anita.
“Sure didn’t look like he liked them,” Romans said of the blinkers. “He didn’t work near as well as Billy did.”
Though Hollywood Star’s last race was Sept. 16, Romans said he’s not worried that colt didn’t get enough out of the workout. “He’s plenty fit,” he said. “That’s plenty for him. I just wish he’d breeze on his own like he would in company and work like we know he can run.
“Even his last work at Santa Anita, he’ll work a while then drop the bit. His ears go back and forth. He’s never been focused from start to finish of a work or a race. When he figures it all out, he’s going to be a superstar. And I was thinking the blinkers might keep him focused all the way through. But they might just have aggravated him.”
Romans and Jason Loutsch, racing manager and partner with father-in-law Dennis Albaugh in the stable, are not prepared to put Free Drop Billy in the same league as Not This Time, the Iroquois winner who was making his third start in the Breeders’ Cup when he dropped a neck decision to Classic Empire, coming out of the race with what proved a career-ending injury. But they love how the chestnut colt with the big white blaze is progressing and always believed he would thrive at longer distances. A son of the Lane’s End stallion Union Rags and a $200,000 Keeneland yearling, Free Drop Billy won his June 15 debut at Churchill Downs, was second in Saratoga’s Grade 3 Sanford and the Hopeful, then powered to a four-length triumph in the 1 1/16-mile Breeders’ Futurity. (See stretch run)
“I think he has taken a step forward,” said Loutsch, who watched the work live on the TVG racing network while home in Des Moines, Iowa. “I thought he looked tremendous on the track, really relaxed the first half of the work. And when Tammy asked him down the lane, I thought he really just exploded — bellied down and did exactly what we wanted. We have no excuses going into next weekend.”
Robby Albarado, regular rider of both colts, opted to ride Free Drop Billy, with Joel Rosario to ride Hollywood Star.
A third Albaugh 2-year-old, the 2-for-2 Ellis Park Juvenile winner Dak Attack, missed the Breeders’ Futurity and subsequently the Breeders’ Cup with a tender shin. He could run in either Churchill Downs’ Grade 2 Kentucky Jockey Club on Nov. 25 or Remington Park’s Springboard Mile on Dec. 17, both offering points toward 2018 Kentucky Derby qualification.
“He never came out of training,” Loutsch said. “It was a really tough decision when we talked about it with Bret Jones (whose family bred Dak Attack and bought back into the colt after his purchase). We said, ‘Do we want to press on this and go forward? Or do we want to make sure he’s 100 percent going into the 3-year-old campaign? I think we made the right decision.
“Last year we were going with our superstar into the Breeders’ Cup and he had to be retired. To have three options like we do this year going into the Derby campaign is huge. These are animals and athletes and things happen. The more opportunities you have, the better your chances. To have two horses in the Breeders’ Cup is really, really cool. And our goal is to get three in the Kentucky Derby.”

Hamilton, Shepard To Present 2017 Indiana Civic Health Index At USI

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The Indiana Bar Foundation will present the results of the Indiana Civic Health Index (ICHI) at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, November 1 in University Center Room 2217 and 2218 on the University of Southern Indiana campus. The event is open to the public as seating is available.

Featured speakers at the presentation include former U.S. House of Representatives member Lee Hamilton, former Indiana Supreme Court Chief Justice Randall Shepard and Chuck Dunlap, executive director of the Indiana Bar Foundation.

2017 is the third release of the ICHI by the Indiana Bar Foundation and its partners the Indiana Supreme Court, National Conference on Citizenship, the Indiana University Center on Representative Government, Indiana University Northwest, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis and the Indiana University Center for Civic Literacy. The first Indiana Civic Health indexes were previously published in 2011 and 2015. This updated publication shows a longer period for analysis of the importance of education and the increase in civic participation as education levels increase.

Key findings include information such as Indiana residents’ participation in activities associated with healthy communities and families, frequency of time spent with family and voter turnout among others.

The full 2017 Indiana Civic Health Index (PDF link) can be found online at inbf.org.

For more information contact Charles Dunlap at 317-269-7861 or cdunlap@inbf.org.

Hamilton, Shepard and Dunlap will be available for media interviews at 10:30 a.m. following the presentation.

Special Vanderburgh County Commissioners November 1, 2017 Meeting Agenda

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Agenda Of The Vanderburgh County Board of Commissioners

November 1, 2017, 4:30 pm, Room 301

  1. Call to Order
  2. Attendance
  3. Pledge of Allegiance
  4. Action Items 
    1. Healthcare Insurance 2018
  5. Public Comment
  6. Adjournment

Holcomb Statement to Clarify INDOT Tolling Feasibility Study

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INDIANAPOLIS — Governor Holcomb has directed INDOT to clarify that a request for proposals (RFP) to develop a strategic plan for interstate tolling does not include study of tolling on the I-465 corridor.  The governor said midway through the 2017 legislative session that he did not consider tolling I-465 or similar loops around cities a viable option. He offered the following statement:

“In a March 30th interview, I said regarding tolling, ‘I don’t see I-465 or loops around our cities as viable options.’ For me, it was never a consideration. So to ensure there is no confusion, I have directed INDOT officials to remove the I-465 corridor from any further study.”

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ABA Withdrawing Approval For Indiana Tech Law School

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Roughly four months after Indiana Tech closed its law school, the American Bar Association is poised to withdraw provisional accreditation of the legal education program.

The ABA’s Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar posted a memorandum Oct. 15, indicating it had notified the Fort Wayne institution in August that the law school would be losing its provisional accreditation. The section had granted approval in March 2016.

In its August letter to Indiana Tech’s new president, Karl Einolf, the ABA acknowledged its action followed the school’s decision to voluntary scrap its J.D. program. Still, the school was given 60 days to comment on the notice of withdrawal.

Carson Boxberger LLP, which is representing Indiana Tech, responded Oct. 13. The law firm stated Indiana Tech declined to make any comments regarding to the ABA’s decision.

Indiana Tech Law School closed June 30, 2017. Former president Art Snyder announced in October 2016 the board of trustees had decided to pull the plug on the then-three-year-old program after incurring a $20 million loss. The second and final class graduated in May 2017.

Trick or Treat at Ivy Tech Evansville Oct. 31

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Families are invited to bring children of all ages to Ivy Tech Community College Evansville between 3 and 4:30 p.m. on Oct. 31 for Halloween Trick or Treating.

Offices at Ivy Tech will provide free goodies for children in stations set up through a main hallway on campus near the Business Office. Families should enter through Entrance B at 3501 N. First Avenue, Evansville.

For those with high school aged children, the Express Enrollment Center will be open and available to discuss Ivy Tech’s educational opportunities.

Halloween Safety Tips For Trick-Or-Treating By Wendy McNamara

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Adopt A Pet

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Spot is a 4-year-old male mixed -breed. He’s named for his black “eye patch” marking! This poor guy has had a very turbulent past. He has been at VHS 3 times in 3 years, each time being found as a stray by a different person and then being returned to his owner. This time, though… no owner has come for him. Spot is ready to go home today for $100 and is neutered, microchipped, and up-to-date on vaccinations! Contact Vanderburgh Humane at (812) 426-2563 or adoptions@vhslifesaver.org for details.

 

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