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Ailing Hall of Famer Van Berg On A Tear At Ellis Park

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Saturday’s win on a DQ gives stable its fourth victory in last nine starts
 This is how good things are going right now for Jack Van Berg’s stable: After the nice 2-year-old Make Noise won a maiden race Friday to give the barn its third win in eight races, victory in Saturday’s sixth race dropped into their lap.
That came when Cara Blythe finished second behind Sister Kan. But because Sister Kan was determined to have impeded third-place Inspeightofyou,the first-place finisher was disqualified to third behind the filly she bothered. That “kissed” Cara Blythe into Van Berg’s fourth win in nine starts.
“The stars are lining up right now,” said Tom Van Berg, who is helping out his dad, now tied for fourth in the Ellis trainer standings. The barn also has four thirds in 14 starts overall this meet.
Van Berg’s hot streak started with another 2-year-old maiden race, as Jerry Caroom’s Northern Trail won a 5 1/2-furlong grass event by 3 1/2 lengths in fast time. Make Noise, owned by long-time Van Berg client Kay Stillman, won by 2 1/2 lengths in front-running fashion to take a seven-furlong race on dirt. The $75,000 Ellis Park Juvenile could be next.
Van Berg, now the winner of 6,509 races in a 60-year career, was inducted into North American racing’s Hall of Fame in 1985, two years before he won the Kentucky Derby and Preakness with Alysheba. If it’s been decades ago since Van Berg would win 200 races a year in a slow year, at age 81 he’s still always on the look out for a nice horse.
“This one is a little different,” Tom Van Berg said. “We have a couple of owners who are trying to get rid of some of the claimers and improve their stock, so they’re dropping (in class) and running, hopefully putting them in spots where they can win. But it seems like it’s the 2-year-olds we’ve won with and not the drops.”
For Court, it’s good to see Van Berg back in the winner’s circle with a nice horse — especially if the jockey is the one riding. The jockey also was on Cara Blythe.
“It’s just good to be back in the saddle for Jack Van Berg again,” said Court, who was winning stakes around the country for Van Berg in the 1980s and then rode for the trainer when both were based in California. “Not only that, but to win one for him is phenomenal. And to have Tom back in the game here locally, it brings back a lot of memories. It’s a pleasant feeling.
“He was always one of those guys — old school and kind of hard on the surface. But he’d make his point. He’s an excellent horseman and knows talent when he sees it. He sees what most people don’t recognize.”
This how tough Van Berg is: He has been ailing but still comes out most days to his Churchill Downs barn – and then returns for two or three days a week to his home in Hot Springs, Ark. Tom is the one trekking to and from Ellis on Interstate 64 from Louisville.
“He’s struggling,” Tom said. “Five weeks ago he actually was talking to me one Sunday morning and said, ‘Tom, I think it’s my time. I just don’t have energy anymore. I don’t feel good. I sleep all the time. I can’t get my breath.’ So he went back down to Arkansas. I think it was that Tuesday or Wednesday, he was at his home and collapsed, knocked his head. When he woke up, he called a friend down there and one of his clients, Jerry Caroom, flew him to Oklahoma City to his heart doctor, and they found out he had pneumonia in both lungs. It wasn’t his  heart.
“He’s had problems with his heart that last five, six years. To get over that is a big hump anyway. I kind of came out of retirement to drive him down the road. He can sit in his truck and watch them train and yell at me,” he said, adding jokingly, “And then I go back and yell at the assistants, or the grooms or whoever — the jockeys.”
While Jack Van Berg bought a fixer-upper near Churchill Downs, he still travels back and forth with a driver to his Hot Springs residence for two or three days a week.
“It takes a lot out of him to get back up here,” Tom said. “The more he can get that house ready and stay here (in Louisville) and take it easy, the better he’ll be.”
 Tom trained for nine years after assisting his father for years, quitting after his last starter on New Year’s Day in 2008 in order to be home with his young son Tanner, who had been diagnosed with leukemia.
“He’s been in remission since the end of ’08, really, but they treated him for three years,” said Tom, who started a job working for the Ragozin handicapping sheets out of his home. “Now he’s basically tested once a year for his blood, to make sure no cancer cells are coming back.
“I pretty much have my own schedule. My wife has a good job downtown with the convention and visitors bureau, so I can run up and down the road if I need to and still do my work.”
Tanner is now 12 “and doing great,” his dad said.
Tom and Angi Van Berg also have a 10-year-old son, Tyler, carrying the family tradition of starting the kids’ names with T.
“My wife came up with Tanner’s name. Grampa Van — Marion Van,” he said with his nickname for Jack’s father, Hall of Fame trainer and owner and family patriarch Marion Van Berg, “When we were up at the Hall of Fame in Saratoga, Angi read the bio of my grampa, Marion, and his first trainer was a guy named Charlie Tanner. My mom named all his kids — Jack’s sons and daughters — with Ts: Tim, Tami, Tori, Traci, Tom. I never thought about it. But when we got married Angi said, ‘Why did you name all your kids with T’s?’  My mom said, ‘It’s easy. It stands for The very best.’ So Angi said, ‘We’ve got to name them Ts now, too. So when she saw Charlie Tanner, she was like, ‘That’s his name. It’s automatic.’”
Tom Van Berg came to what now is his hometown in 1996 with a 30-horse string for prominent owner John Franks. Several years later, one of Jack’s owners from Detroit bought and developed the HighPointe training center near La Grange, Ky.
“We developed that with the idea that Dad would come back,” Tom said. “So we built that and Dad still never came back. He’d never leave California, because he had that ranch out there. Three years ago now he came back. It’s good to have him back.”
Asked how being his dad’s assistant now is different from when Tom worked for his dad as a young man, he said, “Very different. Just strictly because he’s not as hands-on as much. It’s more he’s seeing through my eyes. And Sammy Almaraz has been with him forever, for like 38 years as his assistant. And his dad was with him before that.”
Sammy Almaraz, by the way, was the groom for Gate Dancer, who became Van Berg’s first Triple Crown race winner in the 1984 Preakness.
And who knows? Maybe Make Noise will get Jack back on the Triple Crown trail.
“Dad’s always thought he could run,” Tom said. “He bought him for ($22,000) – the ham sandwich Bob Baffert used to talk about. Dad still buys the ham sandwiches, while Baffert is on to the caviar. Dad still goes to the sales the last couple of days, finds individuals that look the part.”
Upcoming promotions
Sunday: Furniture Day, July 30 only. Register for a chance to win a cool piece of furniture after every race. Sponsored by Utley Distributors, Aaron’s Henderson, Business Equipment and Pat Morgan Insurance.
Value Day: Every Sunday enjoy substantial savings on draft beer ($2 for 16 ounces), hotdogs and 12-ounce Coke products ($1.25) and chips and peanuts ($1).
Kids on the Track: Kids 12 and under square off in heats by age group for foot races on the racetrack, the winners getting a pair of jockey goggles and all the fame they can stand. Simply meet in the winner’s circle after the last race every Sunday during the live meet.
Aug. 20 live-money Bluegrass Tournament: Ellis Park is back with a handicapping tournament, this a live-money event presented by AmWager. Entry fee is $500 ($200 to prize money and $300 bankroll), betting minimum of $20 on each of 10 races from Ellis Park’s card and optional races to be announced. Top four finishers get trip to 2018 National Horseplayers Championship in Las Vegas, plus hotel and airfare up to $500. Top 10 finishers earn prize money. Register at www.amwager.com/bluegrasstournament.
 

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Evansville Police Department Police Pension Board Meeting

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Evansville Police Department
Police Pension Board

The August 2nd meeting of the Evansville Police Pension Board will now be held on Wednesday, August 16 beginning at 8:15AM on in Room 307 of The Civic, Center Complex located at 1 NW M.L. King Jr. Blvd.
The meeting originally scheduled for August 2nd has been cancelled.

MESKER PARK ZOO & BOTANIC GARDEN ADVISORY BOARD MEETING

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MESKER PARK ZOO & BOTANIC GARDEN ADVISORY BOARD

REGULAR MEETING

WINTERNHEIMER CHAMBERS, ROOM 30

1 CIVIC CENTER COMPLEX

Tuesday, August 1, 2017
12:00 PM

  • CALL TO ORDER

  • MEETING MEMORANDUM June 6, 2017
  • REPORT BY INTERIM DIRECTOR

  • NEW BUSINESS

a. Birthday Party pricing update – Stephanie Sanderson

b. Addendum to Kleenco Cleaning Contract – Stephanie Sanderson

c. Contract for Painting Services – Erik Beck

d. Contract for Paving – Erik Beck

5. ADJOURN

 

 

Gold Medal, American Record Highlight IU’s Day at World Championships            

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BUDAPEST, Hungary – Indiana University had another stellar day at the 2017 FINA Swimming World Championships in Budapest, Hungary on Saturday.

Team USA won the gold medal in the mixed 4×100 freestyle relay in world record fashion, clocking in with a time of 3:19.60, earning Blake Pieroni a gold medal.

Swimming in the morning prelims for the Americans, Pieroni led off with a great split, touching the wall in a IU school record time of 48.23. Pieroni has decimated the 100m free school record over the last year, breaking the mark seven times since the 2016 Olympic Trials.

With Pieroni’s strong split, the Americans qualified second overall for the championship final with a time of 3:23.93.

Pieroni swam on three relays for Team USA at the World Championships, winning gold with the men’s 4×100 free relay team and bronze with the men’s 4×200 free relay team.

In the semifinals of the women’s 50 breaststroke, Lilly King broke her own American record in the event, touching the wall in a time of 29.60. With her mark, King will be the top seed in Sunday’s 50 breast championship final. The Evansville, Ind. native’s time is just 0.12 seconds off the world record in the event.

King will be going for her third gold medal of the World Championships in the 50 breast, after winning gold in world record fashion in both the women’s 100 breast and the mixed 4×100 medley relay with Team USA.

Earlier in prelims, IU’s Mohamed Samy tied for 25th in the world with a time of 25.55 in the men’s 50 backstroke.

Along with the championship final of the women’s 50 breaststroke on Sunday, the IU junior will also likely swim in the women’s 4×100 medley relay for Team USA. IU alum Cody Miller is also likely to swim for the Americans in the men’s 4×100 medley relay.

Prelims are scheduled to begin at 3:30 a.m. ET, with the finals session on Sunday starting at 11:30 a.m. ET.

 

Adopt A Pet

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Rolo is a 1-year-old male black Lab mix. He was found running at large with 2 other big dogs, Hershey and Twix. (Twix has been adopted.) Hershey loves to sit up & beg! His adoption fee is $100 and includes his neuter, microchip, vaccines, and more. Contact Vanderburgh Humane at (812) 426-2563 or adoptions@vhslifesaver.org for adoption details!

 

Evansville HydroFest™ $10 Admission Wristbands Now On Sale 

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EVANSVILLE, In. – A $10 Evansville HydroFest™ Admission Wristband admits attendees ages 13 and up into all three days of American Power Boat Association hydroplane racing on Labor Day weekend.

Ages 12 and under are free. The action takes place on the Ohio Riverfront in Downtown Evansville, Friday September 1st, Saturday September 2nd, and Sunday September 3rd, 2017. For those 21 and above, the Wristband includes admission to the Concert and Beer Garden at Tropicana’s Outdoor Events Plaza on Friday and Saturday evening from 6:00 pm to 12:00 midnight.

Admission Wristbands may be purchased at all 6 Evansville-area Schnuck’s stores, 9 Heritage Federal Credit Union locations, the Evansville Museum of Art, History and Science, and SWIRCA until Thursday, August 31st.  Beginning Friday, September 1st, Admission Wristbands will be available for purchase at the following Admission Gates on Riverside Drive:  Court Street attended by SWIRCA, Main Street attended by CASA, and Cherry Street attended by the Evansville Museum Guild.  For each $10, the non-profit organization earns $2 to further their good work in our City.

During the three-day event, Evansville HydroFest™ will host the American Power Boat Association’s Eastern Divisional Championships on Saturday, and North American Championships on Sunday for 14 classes of Inboard Boats. To date, dozens of teams have committed to compete from across the United States and Canada. For event schedules and more information, please visit www.evansvillehydrofest.com.

Evansville HydroFest 2017 is a Presentation of Evansville Events, Inc.

Evansville HydroFest is presented by Evansville Events, Inc., a 501c3 non-profit entity of the Evansville Convention and Visitors Bureau. Mr. Bob Warren is the Executive Director. Serving on the Executive Organizing Committee are Mr. Vernon Stevens, President of Southern Business Machines and Mr. Randy Lientz, President of AXIOM. Warren, Stevens, and Lientz all reside in Evansville.

EPD ACTIVITY REPORT

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EPD REPORT

Boomers drop Evansville in series opener

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 The Evansville Otters were held to six hits in a 4-2 loss to the Schaumburg Boomers on Friday at Bosse Field in front of 3,734.

After a scoreless first inning, Schaumburg scored two runs in the top of the second. James Keller and Jack Parenty had back-to-back RBI singles to put the Boomers on top 2-0.

The Otters cut the 2-0 deficit in half in the fifth when a wild pitch allowed Brandon Soat to score.

The Boomers increased the lead in the seventh as Keller delivered with a two-run home run to, allowing Schaumburg to extend the score to 4-1. Keller finished with three RBIs in the game.

The Otters kept fighting until the end.

In the eighth, Jeff Gardner singled to right, scoring Allen to pull Evansville to within two at 4-2. Later that inning, the Otters had the tying run at first base, but would strand the bases loaded.

Hunter Ackerman took the loss, moving his record to 7-3. He allowed four runs and struck out nine batters in 6 2/3 innings. The loss snapped a six-game winning streak for Ackerman.

Schaumburg’s Brandon Quintero moved to 3-0 with the win. He surrendered one run in five innings.

Game two of the series between is Saturday at Bosse Field with first pitch scheduled for 6:35 p.m.

On Saturday, it’s Joint Replacement Night at Bosse Field with the game being sponsored by Deaconess, Orthopaedic Associates and Progressive Health. Deaconess will be giving away a hand fan to the first 1,000 fans through the gates.

Tickets for Saturday are still available by going to evansvilleotters.com or calling 812-435-8686.

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