BALLOON

**It is the time of year for horse racing lovers who are watching and wagering to get down to homework and start figuring out the races on simulcast. Wheter you are watching on Horseplayer Interactive or at your favourite Champions teletheatre, the winner below from Mahoning Valley is one we always look for!

Norm Files photo – more of this winner below.

INDUSTRY INSIDERS HOPE HORSE RACING STAYS AT EDMONTON NORTHLANDS

Edmonton Sun feature
The horse hasn’t yet left the barn when it comes to the departure of horse racing at Edmonton Northlands.

And local industry insiders hope decision-makers — including Northlands and its shareholders — in the new year consider exactly what the industry’s past has meant to the city’s present and what the future might hold.

“From a personal perspective and from an industry perspective, it’s fairly negative,” said Wesley Oulton, past president of the Alberta Quarter Horse Racing Association, when asked about provincial funding for horse racing at Northlands being slashed as plans for the future of the site make way for the downtown arena.
http://www.edmontonsun.com/2015/12/29/industry-insiders-hope-horse-racing-stays-at-edmonton-northlands

CANADIANS ELSEWHERE

CATCH A GLIMPSE, the probable champion 2-year-old filly in Canada for 2015, is razor sharp after a brief rest as she worked 4 furlongs in :47 on the grass at Palm Meadows on Dec. 28. The City Zip filly, winner of the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Filly Turf, is being pointed to the Sweetest Chatn Stakes at GUlfstream on Jan. 30.

CONQUEST DADDYO, a Queen’s Plate hopeful, worked on Dec. 27 at Palm Meadows in 1:02.65 on the dirt. The son of Scat Daddy won the Grade 2 Summer Stakes last year at Woodbine.

At PALM BEACH DOWNS, youngsters from the Reade Baker barn have been getting legged up – GLORIOUS, a Giant’s Causeway filly out of Cologny worked 5 furlongs in 1:02.58 ahead of her upcoming debut.

GLORIOUS, a 2yo (soon to be 3) by Giant’s Causeway and a half sister to graded SW ROMANSH, works at Palm Beach Downs on Tuesday – Janis Maine photo

415.20 TO WIN, first winner for trainer

Trainer Gwen Crosser wound up with a horse the previous owner did not like and that turned out to be her first winner as a trainer. Oh ya, he was 206 to 1.

Norm Files was on hand to see the magic too, thanks Norm for the photos! Story below from ESPN..

Photos from Dec 28 at Mahoning Valley –