This is Sagamore, the 530-acre Thoroughbred horse-racing farm in Glyndon, Maryland, that Plank bought in 2007.
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Huge swathes of America's online gambling industry, chiefly horse-racing and state lotteries, are exempt from the bill.
And now the Kierkegaard-quoting Milch is back with Luck, a horse-racing drama starring Dustin Hoffman and Nick Nolte.
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Over the years, various aristocrats, cousins and horse-racing grandees have been more or less plausibly identified as her friends.
Onboard there were first-class restaurant facilities, a cocktail bar and radio equipment, so passengers could hear the horse-racing results.
The penthouse on the topmost floor, which is yet unsold, has stunning views of a horse-racing track and the Arabian Sea.
And there are still hot spots for classic pocket pilfering, such as horse-racing tracks filled with cash-loaded bettors, Dr. Felson said.
While most other rich countries chose to make betting on horse-racing a state monopoly, Britain legalised private bookies in the 1960s.
With last weekend's Kentucky Derby in mind, let's consider a horse-racing analogy.
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Boxing, tennis, track and field, soccer and horse-racing are being squeezed out.
Some 500 bands perform on a dozen stages at the Fair Grounds, the horse-racing track that becomes a music stadium once a year.
Attendance at Royal Ascot, an annual high-society parade with some horse-racing attached, plummeted when it was moved from Berkshire to York in 2005.
Five of the 58 casualties were found to have died from the bug, suspected to be the Hendra type which struck Australian horse-racing in 1994.
Listen Boy is a horse named for a cheeky Irishman who once, quite paternalistically, tried to tell Plank how things worked in the horse-racing business.
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The 22-story Park Hotel, the tallest building in China when it opened in 1934, looms over People's Square -- once the oval of the city's horse-racing track.
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The track has suffered from the general decline in horse-racing popularity, and more than half its daily handle is for races held at other facilities.
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It will tell you a store ahead has a collection of horse-racing posters, that a 19th-century murder you've been reading about took place on the next block.
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Northern Racing runs nine horse-racing courses, including Uttoxeter and Chepstow.
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Beyond market conditions, Mr. Stronach's companies ran into U.S. regulations that made it difficult to launch a horse-racing IPO, according to Jack Brothers, chief executive of the six companies.
Winfried Engelbrecht-Bresges, the CEO of the Jockey Club, which in addition to its gambling business also runs horse-racing and entertainment facilities for its 23, 000 members and the public, spoke with Te-Ping Chen about the challenges of running a sprawling Hong Kong institution.
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"When you extrapolate that to quarter-horse racing and standardbred racing, you realize the numbers are astronomical, " Perry said.
On the valley floor stands the frozen lake of St Moritz -- home to an unlikely event of similar vintage -- "White Turf" -- horse racing on snow and ice.
Unsurprisingly, horse racing-mad Australians have taken the champion thoroughbred to their hearts, with diehard Black Caviar fans even traveling to the other side of the world to cheer her on at Britain's Royal Ascot.
The monthly payment will also include an administration fee levied by the scheme's organisers - usually an established racing stable - who select the horse and oversee its day to day care.
As a teenager I developed a great interest in not only horse breeding but also horse racing and used to bet based on red-hot tips.
To some, the purchase was a head-scratching gambit: The sport of horse racing is perceived to be dying a slow, inexorable death, an ember of the 20th-century sporting scene, like boxing.
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The problem of performance-enhancing drug use in horse racing has received increased attention in recent years, including Congressional hearings in 2012.
Plank is quick to admit that he did not buy Sagamore, once a Vanderbilt family holding, out of some long-standing love affair with horse racing.
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Fravel concedes that the financial collapse of 2008 was a harsh blow to horse racing which, from a horse-buying perspective, is a luxury.
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Hong Kong officials, meanwhile, have denied green-lighting additional gambling activities beyond horse racing and the lottery, the South China Morning Post said.
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