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“BACKSIDE LIL” PREDICTIONS FOR KENTUCKY DERBY DAY RACES FOR CITY COUNTY OBSERVER
I want to personally thank the City County Observer for allowing me to write Handicapping articles on my predictions on upcoming winners not only at Ellis Park but also at other tracks throughout the country.
I can guarantee that I know all about this subject and if you follow my predictions It’s my hope you will make a little money by doing so. Bottom line there are no guarantee that you will be able win a bunch of money by doing so. Â Oh, I’m just a cartoon character created by the CCO so they can bring little more humor and interest for their readership. The handicapping of the races was done by knowledgeable people. So sit back and enjoy and lets have fun at the races!
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“BACKSIDE LIL”
BACKSIDE LIL” PREDICTIONS FOR KENTUCKY DERBY DAY RACES
CHURCHILL DOWNS 12 RACE CARD
RACE # 1-ALLOWANCE OPTIONAL CLAIMING-PURSE $82,000
PICK # 4 –ULANBATOR– $5 ACROSS THE BOARD (WIN -PLACE AND SHOW).
RACE # 2-ALLOWANCE OPTIONAL CLAIMING-PURSE $67,000
PICK # 1 – STREET GRAY-$5 ACROSS THE BOARD (WIN -PLACE AND SHOW).
RACE # 3-PURSE $62,000
PICK # 10-JIMBO FALLON-$5 ACROSS THE BOARD (WIN -PLACE AND SHOW).
RACE # 4-PURSE $62,000
PICK # 10 –TIZTHESOUND- $5 ACROSS THE BOARD (WIN -PLACE AND SHOW).
RACE # 5-ALLOWANCE OPTIONAL CLAIMING $72,000
PICK #2-Â BOLD CONQUEST-$5 ACROSS THE BOARD (WIN -PLACE AND SHOW).
RACE # 6-PURSE $300,000
PICK # 1-TEPIN-$5 ACROSS THE BOARD -WIN-PLACE AND SHOW.
RACE # 7-STAKES-PURSE $500,000
PICK #1-KOBE’S BACK-$5 ACROSS THE BOARD (WIN-PLACE AND SHOW)
RACE # 8-STAKES-PURSE $300,000
PICK #8-TARIS-$5 ACROSS THE BOARD (WIN-PLACE AND SHOW)
RACE # 9-STAKES-PURSE $300,000
PICK #3-CONVERGE-$5 ACROSS THE BOARD (WIN-PLACE AND SHOW)
RACE # 10-STAKES-PURSE $250,000
PICK#11-AMERICAN FREEDOM-$5 ACROSS THE BOARD (WIN-PLACE AND SHOW)
RACE # 11- WOODWARD RESERVE TURF STAKES-PURSEN$500.000
PICK #6-SLUMBER-$5 ACROSS THE BOARD (WIN-PLACE AND SHOW)
RACE # 12- THE KENTUCKY DERBY$2,000,000-PURSE Â
PICK #11-EXAGGERATOR-$5 ACROSS THE BOARD (WIN-PLACE AND SHOW)
FOOTNOTES: Horse racing, like many sports, has its own language. Whether it’s how to place a bet, or words on a race form, it can be a bit perplexing. Below you’ll find a glossary of race track terms you should know.
ACROSS THE BOARD: A bet on one horse to win, place, and show.
ALLOWANCE OR ALLOWANCE RACE: A non-claiming event in which the racing secretary conditions weight allowances based on previous purse earnings and/or types of victories.
ALSO ELIGIBLE OR “E’: Horses entered into the field that will not run unless other horses are scratched.
APPRENTICE JOCKEY: A student jockey that will receive a weight allowance of varying degrees depending on his or her experience.
BACKSTRETCH: The straight part of the track opposite the finish line or the stable area.
BABY RACE: A race for two year old horses, especially early in the season.
BLINKERS: Blinkers: Eye equipment that limits a horse’s vision; generally used to help the horse concentrate on running and to reduce di
traction.
BREEZE: A term generally used to describe a workout in which a horse is easily running under a hold without encouragement from the rider.
BUG BOY: An apprentice jockey
CLAIMING RACE: A race where each horse in the field has a price and can be purchased by any person that makes a valid claim prior to the running of the race.
CLUBHOUSE TURN: The first turn of races that begin on the frontstretch/homestretch.
CONDITIONS: The circumstances under which a race will be run, such as: surface, distance, purse, and eligibilities.
EXACTA: A bet in which the player attempts to pick the 1st and 2nd place horse on one ticket.
Fast Track: Rating of a dirt track that is dry and hard.
FIRE SALE: A drastic reduction in the claiming price of a horse.
FRACTIONS: Clocking at quarter-mile increments in either a race or a workout.
FRONT RUNNER: A horse that wants to run on or near the lead.
FURLONG: One eighth of a mile.
GRADED RACE: A stakes race that is assigned a grade (I, II, or III) by the American Graded Stakes Committee based on the relative strength of the race as compared to all other races. This is the highest form of racing.
HANDICAP: A race in which the racing secretary assigns weights designed to equalize the winning chances of the entrants; or to study horses’ records in order to determine the chances of each to win the race.
HEAVY TRACK: A grass racing surface that has received an extremely large amount of water and is an almost bog-like condition.
INQUIRY: An official investigation by the stewards of the running of the race to determine whether a foul was committed by a horse or jockey.
In the money: To finish in the top four; this generally entitles the owner to a share of the purse. In betting terms “in the money” means to finish in the top three.
MADDEN: A horse that has never won a race; or a race for horses that have never won a race.
furlongs but shorter than 1 1/8 miles.
MINUS POOL: When enough money is bet on one horse that the pool is insufficient, after the track take, to pay the holders of the winning ticket the legal minimum odds. In this situation, the track is required to make up the difference to ensure that the bettors are paid the full amount.
MORNING ODDS; The odds set by the track prior to the opening of the pools.
MUDDY TRACK: A dirt track that is soft, wet and holding.
OBJECTIONS: A claim of foul by a jockey following the race.
ODDS: The chances of a horse to win a particular race based on the pari-mutuel wagering of the general public. The payouts for a $2 bet with corresponding odds are listed below:
OFF THE BOARD: A horse that fails to finish in the money.
OFF TRACK: A racing surface that is anything other than Fast (Dirt) or Firm (Turf/Grass).
SCHOOL: To train a horse, generally in the starting gate or the paddock.
SCRATCH: To withdraw a horse from a race.
SHIPPER: A horse that has traveled from one track to another to run in a race.
SHUT OUT: When a player fails to make his bet at the window prior to the gate opening.
STEWARDS: Three person panel that determines whether or not any rules violations occurred during the race.
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TRIFECTA: A wager in which the player selects the first three horses in a race in order.
TURF COURSE: A grass covered course.
WASHED OUT: A nervous horse that is sweating.
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Evansville Fire Department Pension Board Notice of Executive Session and Regular Scheduled Meeting
The Evansville Fire Department Pension Board will hold an Executive Session on Tuesday, May 10, 2016 at 8:00 a.m. in room 307 of the Civic Center Complex, 1 NW MLK Jr Blvd, Evansville. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss records classified as confidential by state or federal statute in accordance with I.C. 5-14-1.5-6.1(b)(7) and to receive information about prospective employees (see, I.C. 5-14-1.5-6.1(b)(5)).
The Pension Board will hold its regular scheduled meeting on the same day, beginning at 9:00 a.m. in room 307 of the Civic Center Complex.
USI BB wins GLVC East with the sweep!
The 26th-ranked University of Southern Indiana baseball team won the 2016 Great Lakes Valley Conference East Division crown with a doubleheader sweep of the University of Indianapolis, 7-3 and 3-1, Friday afternoon in Indianapolis. USI saw its record go to 32-16 overall and 19-7 in the GLVC, while UIndy finishes the first day of the series, 31-17 overall, 16-10 GLVC.
The Screaming Eagles have won a GLVC divisional title four times in the last seven seasons, taking the East Division three times (2011, 2014, 2016) and the West Division once (2010). USI has gone on to win an NCAA Division II national title in 2010 and 2014.
USI junior right-hander Colin Nowak (Carol Stream, Illinois) struck out a season-high nine batters, while sophomore second baseman Sam Griggs(Evansville, Indiana) and sophomore leftfielder Drake McNamara (Mt. Vernon, Indiana) homered to lead the Screaming Eagles to a 7-3 game one win.
Nowak (6-2) won his sixth game of the year by going eight innings, tying his longest outing of the year. He allowed three runs on six hits and a walk, while striking out nine Greyhounds. USI senior right-hander T.J. Decker (Brazil, Indiana) finished the game for Nowak, pitching a scoreless ninth inning.
The Eagles scored all of the runs Nowak would need in the third and fourth innings. Senior rightfielder Kyle Kempf (Evansville, Indiana) doubled in USI’s first run before Griggs made it 3-0 with a two-run blast.
McNamara upped the Eagles’ lead to 4-0 with a home run in the fourth. Griggs and McNamara have hit a team-best six home runs each this year.
Senior catcher Ryan Bertram (Zionsville, Indiana), who had a team-high three hits in the opener, gave the Eagles some insurance in the fifth and seventh by driving in a run in both innings, while senior centerfielder Hamilton Carr (Evansville, Indiana) sealed the victory with an RBI-single in the eighth.
In the nightcap, junior right-hander Lucas Barnett (Sellersburg, Indiana) won his sixth game of the year with his fifth complete game of the season. Barnett (6-4) allowed one run on five hits and one walk, while striking out four in seven innings of work.
Nowak and Barnett are tied for the team lead with six victories each this spring.
Trailing 1-0, USI’s offense came to life in the final three innings of the victory after being no-hit through the first four frames. Bertram jumped started the USI bats with a double and scored on a wild pitch to knot the game up 1-1.
Kempf put the Eagles out in front, 2-1, with a solo blast in the sixth inning. The home run was the senior rightfielder’s third of the season.
The Eagles picked up an insurance run in the seventh when senior third baseman Trent Gunn (Tell City, Indiana) singled in a run for the 3-1 final.
The Eagles and the Greyhounds concluded the regular season Saturday at 11 a.m. (CDT) with final doubleheader moving from the UIndy campus to Grand Park in Westfield, Indiana. Grand Park also will be the setting for the GLVC Tournament next week.
YESTERYEAR-Evansville Braves
Legendary baseball coach Bob Coleman stands in the back row (center) with his triumphant Evansville Braves team after capturing the Three-I League pennant in September 1957. The minor league organized in 1901 and was composed of teams from the “I†states: Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa. When the Braves capped a sensational comeback late in the season to defeat the Peoria Chiefs in 1957, they earned their first consecutive pennant and the seventh overall. Coleman was one of only two baseball managers who achieved more than 2,000 minor league wins during his long career.
FOOTNOTES: We want to thank Patricia Sides, Archivist of Willard Library for contributing this picture that shall increase people’s awareness and appreciation of Evansville’s rich history. If you have any historical pictures of Vanderburgh County or Evansville please contact please contact Patricia Sides, Archivist Willard Library at 812) 425-4309, ext. 114 or e-mail her at www.willard.lib.in.us.
LOTS OF LUCK, DONALD TRUMP
Making Sense by Michael Reagan
Now comes the hard part.
Now comes the part where Donald Trump has to appeal to everyone in the U.S.
Trump will rack up lots of easy votes in the fall with his rabid fan base — older grumpy white males and their spouses who want change but don’t really know or care if Trump is a Republican or a Democrat.
But voters who want to make America great again by being mean to Latinos or by putting tariffs on air-conditioners and iPhones won’t add up to a majority.
If he wants to become president, Trump has to mend a lot of fences, say a lot of mea culpas and learn a bunch of important political and economic things.
Like manners. Like humility. Like gravitas.
And like making nice with the Bush/Cruz/Kasich conservatives he’s been insulting and demeaning with sophomoric cheap shots for the last year.
The presumptive Republican nominee should start his political fence-repair work by trying to win over a few million women voters.
It won’t be easy. Three-fourths of women think he’s a piece of dirt and wouldn’t vote for him if he was married to Hillary.
I don’t know what it’ll take, or even if it’s possible, but somehow Trump has to prove that deep down he is not the sexist boor he’s been playing on TV.
I know one thing he should not do — attack Hillary for enabling her lecherous husband Bill and attacking the women who say they were accosted by him.
That didn’t work in the 1990s. All it did was make independent women vote for Hillary or stay home.
Trump’s long march to victory over the Republican political establishment has been an amazing thing to watch — kind of like a TV miniseries where the bad guy never gets taken down in the end by the good guys.
For a year he’s made fools of the media pundits and mincemeat of the professional politicians of his party.
He’s the un-politician who broke all the rules of the primary game and won. That’s a big reason he got so many votes in so many states.
We wanted a Washington outsider. What we got was a salesman. He did and said whatever he had to do to make the sale to the Republican electorate.
As I tweeted earlier this week, the GOP is no longer the Party of Reagan, it’s the Party of Trump.
Where he takes Republicans from here is anyone’s guess, but it’s probably going to be one of the wilder political rides in modern American history.
If America gets lucky, Trump will hit his head on a tree limb and when he wakes up he’ll be a real conservative who runs on a platform of slashing government spending and abolishing the IRS.
Or maybe he’ll hire some economists who can teach him why tariffs are bad for America because they punish consumers and not corporations.
Or maybe someone will explain to him why building a 300-foot wall on the Mexican border and rounding up 11 million illegal immigrants is not how a free — and great — country should do immigration reform.
Trump will need everybody he can get to defeat Hillary.
Who he picks for vice president will be interesting, but it won’t really matter because we know people don’t vote for a president because they like the VP choice.
It could be Rubio or Kasich, because that would help him in Florida and Ohio. It could be a Latina woman like Nevada Governor Susana Martinez.
Or, knowing Trump, he might go outside the box and name one of his business partners we’ve never heard of. No one knows where he’s going to go until he goes there.
There is one thing I know for sure. If Trump becomes president he won’t be able to treat the members of the G-7 or the G-20 the same way he treated the GOP 17.
VANDERBURGH COUNTY FELONY CHARGES
Below is a list of the felony cases filed by the Vanderburgh County Prosecutor’s Office today.
Tammy Lee Seabeck Battery with moderate bodily injury, Level 6 felony
Chasity Marie Griffin Theft, Level 6 felony
 Jeffrey Lamont Hook Battery by means of a deadly weapon, Level 5 felony
Billy Wayne Syers Unlawful possession of a syringe, Level 6 felony
Invasion of privacy, Level 6 felony
Michelle Gail Mixen Possession of a narcotic drug, Level 5 felony
Possession of a controlled substance, Level 6 felony
Joseph Daniel Stewart Unlawful possession of a syringe, Level 6 felony
Theft, Level 6 felony
False informing, Class B misdemeanor
Marco Leroy Vaughn Dealing in marijuana, Level 6 felony
Maintaining a common nuisance, Level 6 felony
Dealing in marijuana, Class A misdemeanor
Casey Lee Smith Theft, Level 6 felony
Residential entry, Level 6 felony
Public intoxication, Class B misdemeanor
Robert Alan Gehl Sexual battery, Level 6 felony
Interference with the reporting of a crime, Class A misdemeanor
Michael Paul Hillenbrand Operating a motor vehicle after forfeiture of license for life, Level 5 felony
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Suspect ID’d in Thursday morning bank robbery
Evansville Police have identified the suspect in the Thursday morning robbery at the Old National Bank at 4500 Washington.
Police are searching for 23 year old JORDAN ERIC REED. He is 6 feet tall and weighs 180lbs.
Investigators believe REED robbed the bank just before 11:00am. No weapon was shown, but REED implied he had a gun. REED left the bank with an undisclosed amount of money. There were no reported injuries.
Anyone who has information about this case or REED’S whereabouts is asked to call EPD at 812-436-7979 or WeTip at 1-800-78-CRIME.
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