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Magic Dry Organic Absorbent NHRA Arizona Nationals

Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park

20000 S. Maricopa Rd.
Chandler, AZ, 85226

March 2019

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50th Amalie Motor Oil NHRA Gatornationals

Gainesville Raceway

11211 N County Road 225
Gainesville, FL, 32609

April 2019

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DENSO Spark Plugs NHRA Four-Wide Nationals

The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway

7000 N Las Vegas Blvd.
Las Vegas, NV, 89115

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Mopar Express Lane NHRA SpringNationals Presented By Pennzoil

Houston Raceway Park

2525 South FM 565
Baytown, TX, 77523

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NGK Spark Plugs NHRA Four-Wide Nationals

zMAX Dragway

5555 Concord Pkwy. S.
Concord, NC, 28027

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Arby's NHRA Southern Nationals

Atlanta Dragway

500 E. Ridgeway Rd.
Commerce, GA, 30529

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Virginia NHRA Nationals

Virginia Motorsports Park

8018 Boydton Plank Road
North Dinwiddie, VA, 23803

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Route 66 NHRA Nationals

Route 66 Raceway

W Schweitzer Rd.
Elwood, IL, 60421

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Menards NHRA Heartland Nationals presented by Minties

Heartland Motorsports Park

7530 SW Topeka Blvd
Topeka, KS, 66619

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Jun

14 -
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NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals

Bristol Dragway

151 Speedway Blvd.
Bristol, TN, 37620

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21

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Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals

Summit Racing Equipment Motorsports Park

1300 OH-18
Norwalk, OH, 44857

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NHRA New England Nationals

New England Dragway

280 Exeter Rd.
Epping, NH, 03042

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Jul

19 -
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Dodge Mile-High NHRA Nationals Presented By Pennzoil

Bandimere Speedway

3051 S. Rooney Rd.
Morrison, CO, 80465

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Jul

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NHRA Sonoma Nationals

Sonoma Raceway

29355 Arnold Dr.
Sonoma, CA, 95476

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August 2019

Aug

02 -
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Magic Dry Organic Absorbent NHRA Northwest Nationals

Pacific Raceways

31001 144th Ave. SE
Kent, WA, 98042

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Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals

Brainerd International Raceway

5523 Birchdale Rd.
Brainerd, MN, 56401

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02

Chevrolet Performance U.S. Nationals

Lucas Oil Raceway at Indianapolis

10267 US-136
Indianapolis, IN, 46234

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September 2019

Sep

12 -
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Mopar Express Lane NHRA Nationals Presented By Pennzoil

Maple Grove Raceway

30 Stauffer Park Lane
Mohnton, PA, 19540

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27 -
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AAA Insurance NHRA Midwest Nationals

World Wide Technology Raceway

700 Raceway Blvd.
Madison, IL, 62060

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Oct

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NTK NHRA Carolina Nationals

zMAX Dragway

5555 Concord Pkwy. S.
Concord, NC, 28027

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Oct

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AAA Texas NHRA FallNationals

Texas Motorplex

7500 US-287
Ennis, TX, 75119

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The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway (Fall)

7000 N. Las Vegas Blvd.
Las Vegas, NV, 89115

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November 2019

Nov

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Auto Club NHRA Finals

Auto Club Raceway at Pomona

2780 Fairplex Dr.
Pomona, CA, 91768

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Can you name all 23 players on France's World Cup winning team?

November 1, 2019 | News | No Comments

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The World Cup has come to a close and we wonder if you can name all 23 member of the winning French side

The World Cup has come to a close and France has once again claimed the top prize.

Les Bleus made their way past Croatia in the final having topped Argentina, Uruguay and Belgium in the knockout rounds.

In the end, star showing from some of France’s big name stars helped the side pick up another World Cup title, but we wonder if you know the World Cup winners through and through.

Take our quiz below to see if you can name all 23 players on France’s World Cup winning roster.

Each player will be listed beside his roster number, but don’t worry, all you need to do is type in the 23 names to ace this.

Did Manchester United dodge a bullet in broken Boateng?

November 1, 2019 | News | No Comments

The Red Devils made a late attempt to sign the Bayern Munich defender, but saw their advances rejected as the transfer window closed

Despite both clubs being at the top of their respective leagues for decades, players moving to Manchester United from Bayern Munich are a rare commodity.

Mark Hughes spent time on loan at the Bundesliga giants during his brief flirtation with Barcelona between spells at Old Trafford, but more recently only Owen Hargreaves and Bastian Schweinsteiger have traded the red jersey of Bayern for the slightly different shade at Old Trafford.

As the Premier League transfer window reached its final stages, it looked like another name might join that elite group, with United hoping that World Cup winner Jerome Boateng might be the answer to their centre-back dilemma. However, both the player and club had other ideas. Boateng informed Jose Mourinho by telephone that he would not be joining the Red Devils, while Bayern were uninterested in United’s £22 million ($28m) offer or loan approach for the 29-year-old.

With PSG also interested in the centre-back , Bayern felt United’s offer was half the amount they wanted for the six-time Bundesliga winner. This meant Mourinho missed out on another of his defensive targets as the transfer window closed, with Yerry Mina joining Everton and Harry Maguire staying at Leicester , leaving the Red Devils short of a new central defender.

However, it could be a blessing in disguise for Mourinho not to have brittle Boateng follow in the footsteps of Hargreaves and Schweinsteiger, two players who saw more of the physio room at Old Trafford than the pitch.

Both Hargreaves and Schweinsteiger came to the Premier League as Champions League winners with Bayern, having helped the Bavarians to multiple domestic trophies with dominant displays in midfield.

Former England international Hargreaves impressed in his first season after joining for £17m ($21m), and played the full 120 minutes of the Champions League final win over Chelsea to add a second European Cup medal to his collection. Repeated knee problems involving multiple consultations and surgeries meant that he played just 138 minutes of Premier League football over the next three seasons before being released.

Schweinsteiger’s stint at Old Trafford proved even more disappointing. After completing a £6.5m ($8.3m) transfer in July 2015, the midfielder became the first German player to play for Man Utd. He was booked shortly after coming on as a substitute in his debut, which was a sign of things to come, as he went on to pick up a three-match ban in December for hitting Winston Reid in the throat during a game with West Ham.

He fell out of favour with new manager Mourinho, playing just three cup games and one Champions League game in his second season, not even getting a minute of action in the Premier League before being allowed to leave for Major League Soccer.

Boateng’s recent injury history indicates that he may have been just as frustrating and frustrated at Old Trafford as his predecessors, with the Germany international also having a history of injury problems. For the last three seasons, he has failed to play more than 20 league games in a single campaign, appearing just 19 times in the 2017-18 Bundesliga season which was bookended by hamstring injuries.

The fact that Bayern Munich were willing to sell him indicates that Boateng is no longer a key part of their plans for the future. When fit, he is a world-class defender, but in Mats Hummels and Niklas Sule new coach Niko Kovac already has a brilliant pairing for the short and long-term in Munich.

Unlike Robert Lewandowski, who had also angled for a move away from Munich, Bayern were happy to let Boateng leave, with chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge claiming “we have enough players at this position, even if Jerome leaves.”

Boateng would have been an excellent addition for Manchester United, but only if he could remain fit – something which is a huge doubt with the defender turning 30 in September. The Red Devils already have plenty of injury-prone defenders and do not need another expensive player sitting on the sidelines.

In fact, it looks as if Boateng will remain at Allianz Arena this season, with PSG having turned their attentions to Germany Under-21 defender Thilo Kehrer, who is set to move to the Ligue 1 giants for €37m (£33m/$42m).

Boateng was absent from the 4-0 DFL Super Cup win over Eintracht Frankfurt, where Lewandowski scored three times and looked comfortable despite his past desire to leave. The world-class striker will be essential to Bayern again this season, but Boateng could find himself watching on as his team-mates secure more silverware, even if he can avoid injury.

But at least he will add another Bundesliga medal to his collection rather than becoming the next Schweinsteiger at Old Trafford.

Column: An anti-deficit group tells a scary story on 'Medicare for all,' but is it the whole story?

October 31, 2019 | News | No Comments

It’s Halloween week, so what better time could there be to issue an estimate of the cost of “Medicare for all” that will scare the hell out of American taxpayers?

Perhaps that’s what the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget is thinking. On Monday, it issued a gruesome analysis of what it would take for the federal government to finance a universal healthcare program on a scale contemplated by some Democratic candidates for president (think Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren).

The headline horrors to select from, according to the CRFB’s “preliminary” analysis, include these: a payroll tax increase of 32%, an income tax surtax of 25%, a 42% value-added tax (similar to a sales tax), a mandatory premium of $7,500 per person, a doubling of the national debt as a share of gross domestic product, or “impossibly high taxes on high earners, corporations, and the financial sector.” Or some combination of the above.

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Yet, just as the frights perpetrated at your neighborhood haunted house often turn out to be not so scary after all, that’s the case with this analysis. After putting its most alarming estimates front and center, the committee acknowledges that, depending on its details, Medicare for all might even reduce total national health spending.

The committee says its main goal is to help policymakers weigh the “economic, distributional, and other consequences” of Medicare for all “relative to each other and against the effects of eliminating all premiums and out-of-pocket spending and providing comprehensive, universal health coverage through the federal government.” Among its arguments is that shifting healthcare costs from individuals and employers to government could produce headwinds for economic growth.

Patrick Newton, a committee spokesman, told me by email that “as our paper illustrates, the decision of what financing mechanism is used to replace this spending has considerable implications for the distribution of income, economic output, and the country’s tax capacity with regards to marginal rates.”

Yes, that’s important. The question is whether the committee didn’t smother that point by launching its analysis with projections of huge increases in the payroll tax and “impossibly high taxes” on corporations and the wealthy.

Before getting to the details, a few words about the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. It’s one of our most outspoken gaggles of fiscal hawks and was long associated with the billionaire Peter G. Peterson, who died in 2018. The Peter G. Peterson Foundation reported contributing $2.2 million to the committee April 2017- March 2018, the latest period for which a foundation disclosure is on record.

Peterson’s concerns about the federal deficit and government debt levels made him a critic of spending on “entitlement” programs such as Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare. To be fair, however, the committee is an equal-opportunity budget scold. Among its targets has been the 2017 tax cut, which went chiefly to corporations and the wealthy; just last week CRFB President Maya MacGuineas issued a full-scale denunciation of the tax cut’s drafting and fiscal consequences.

Back to Medicare for all. Conservatives sometimes have had a hard time explaining why converting America’s patchwork of profit-seeking healthcare providers and financial middlemen into a single government-supervised system would necessarily be bad. On occasion they’ve stepped on their own rake.

That happened in 2018, when the libertarian fiscal analyst Charles Blahous issued a study purporting to show that Sanders’ Medicare for all plan would result in a massive increase in federal spending.

As we pointed out, Blahous’ calculations showed that Sanders’ program would reduce national health expenditures by $2 trillion over 10 years, despite offering more Americans more healthcare services. Blahous, who wrote his paper under the auspices of the Koch-funded Mercatus Center at George Mason University, then had to spend a fair amount of energy defending his unexpected conclusion.

The fundamental sleight-of-hand in Blahous’ analysis was that it focused chiefly on how Medicare for all would affect the federal budget, without stressing that much of its impact would be a redistribution of money already being laid out by employers, families, and the federal and state budgets. That allowed him to make the cost of Medicare for all seem scarier.

The committee doesn’t go that far. Its paper reasonably observes that the first obstacle in costing out Medicare for all is defining what it is. The term is “somewhat amorphous,” the committee acknowledges, though it generally signifies universal, single-payer health insurance coverage for virtually all healthcare “with no meaningful premiums, deductibles, co-payments, or restrictive networks.”

The paper also acknowledges that under Medicare for all, total national healthcare spending might “increase or decrease.” Universal coverage, expanding services to cover dental or vision care, or higher utilization rates might increase costs; reducing administrative costs and cutting payments to doctors, hospitals, and drugmakers might lower them.

But the cost estimates cited by the committee don’t point to an unendurable increase in medical spending. The committee’s most dire scenario, based on an Urban Institute survey, estimates national spending at $50 trillion over 10 years, including money the federal government spends now for healthcare.

That would require $7 trillion more than estimates of current spending for 10 years (including annual inflation), or an average $700 billion per year more than is spent on healthcare now. That annual figure is the size of the military budget Congress approved last year, but instead of buying helicopters and strike fighters, it would pay for medical, dental, vision and long-term care for everyone in the country, without premiums, deductibles or co-pays.

But that’s an extreme case, which would provide all services to everyone including undocumented residents, with no premiums or cost-sharing and no private insurance allowed.

The Urban Institute, in collaboration with the Commonwealth Fund, costed out several permutations of healthcare reform that encompassed broader coverage but lower provider reimbursements and administrative costs. These included models that reduced overall spending by $209 billion in 2020 (some income-related co-pays), or $20 billion (a public option, and premium subsidies instead of elimination of premiums).

Given the uncertainties about the details of any healthcare reform proposal, Newton’s argument that the committee is largely working out the “distributional” issues that arise when revenues from taxes are substituted for premiums and co-pays looks a bit like placing one’s thumb on the scale against Medicare for all.

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That’s especially so since all the options mentioned come right out of a fiscal Grand Guignol. As the committee acknowledges, moreover, “most of the options we put forward are more progressive on average than current law.” In other words, they would hit higher-income taxpayers more than middle- or low-income Americans. That suggests who the prime audience might be for its analysis: those in the highest income tax brackets.

The committee is right to observe that every financing option has particular consequences. The committee says its “preliminary” analysis will be “followed by a more detailed analysis of the various consequences of different financing options.” That’s like rolling a bomb into a room and saying you’ll think about who might be maimed later. How long do you think it will be before Sanders or Warren is asked to justify raising the payroll tax by a third or income taxes by 25% to fund healthcare reform? And for all the concern about higher taxes suppressing economic growth, wouldn’t relieving households and businesses of the implicit tax of healthcare costs spur economic growth?

The public debate about healthcare reform in general and Medicare for all in particular is bound to be complicated, technically and politically. Putting out frightful numbers with little context is likely not to advance the debate, but to end it before it can start.

Fed officials cut interest rate for third time this year, downplay chances for more reductions

October 31, 2019 | News | No Comments

WASHINGTON —

The Federal Reserve made another interest rate cut on Wednesday, but Fed Chairman Jerome H. Powell poured cold water on the idea that more rate cuts are coming down the pike.

The Fed, as expected, lowered its benchmark rate by a quarter of a point for the third straight time, to a range of 1.5% to 1.75%.

Fed officials have described the rate cut as essentially an insurance against the risks to the American economy from the U.S.-China trade war and weakening global growth, which are threatening to undercut what since the summer has been the longest economic expansion in U.S. history.

Earlier Wednesday, the Commerce Department said U.S. economic growth slowed further in the third quarter, with business investments and net exports contracting for the second straight quarter, even as the housing market gained momentum and consumer spending grew at a slower but still-healthy pace.

Trade friction between the globe’s two largest economies has disrupted business operations and spending, as have other risks and uncertainties such as Britain’s messy exit from the European Union.

Powell made clear, however, that the U.S. central bank, after making three successive rate cuts since July, was hitting the pause button. He suggested that the Fed had done enough in light of continued moderate growth in the U.S. economy as well as an improvement in the outlook, particularly with the tentative “Phase 1″ trade agreement announced by Trump earlier this month.

“We believe that monetary policy is in a good place,” Powell said at a press conference Wednesday upon conclusion of the Fed’s two-day meeting and release of its official statement.

The statement was more vague about the Fed’s likely future path of interest rates, but Powell said that it would take a significant development in the economy to cause “a material reassessment of our outlook” for another Fed rate cut. That could be a sizable drop in job growth or consumer spending, which have been the pillars of the economy, as well as a worsening of trade tensions.

Investors were widely expecting Wednesday’s quarter-point cut, and also appeared to be looking for the Fed to keep the door open on future rate reductions. Futures markets were betting that there was a 25% chance of another quarter-point rate cut at the Fed’s last meeting of the year on Dec. 10-11.

Stock markets nonetheless rose after Powell spoke. Even though Powell tamped down hopes for another rate cut, investors apparently took heart in his remarks that the Fed could be sitting on the new very-low rate for a long time.

“We would need to see a really significant move up in inflation that’s persistent before we would consider raising rates to address inflation concerns,” Powell said. Inflation has been running below the Fed’s 2% target for years, and many analysts don’t see it rising fast anytime soon.

With Wednesday’s cut, the Fed’s key interest rate stands at less than the rate of inflation and, Powell said, “will continue to provide significant support for the economy.”

Analysts, however, aren’t so sure. The latest rate cut, like the two earlier ones, was telegraphed weeks earlier and has already been priced into stock markets. And mortgage rates have fallen by more than a full percentage point from last November, more than the total of the Fed’s rate cuts, to an average of 3.75% for a 30-year fixed loan as of last week.

“We’re not going to get more good medicine for this economy,” said Christopher Rupkey, chief economist at MUFG Union Bank in New York.

Lawrence Yun, chief economist at the National Assn. of Realtors, said the Fed’s actions have without doubt helped boost a lackluster housing market. But he noted that there are many constraints for faster growth in housing, including unaffordably high prices and difficulties getting building permits.

In the third quarter, housing made an outsized contribution to the U.S. economy, which grew at an annual rate of 1.9%, the Commerce Department said. That was down from 2% in the second quarter and 3.1% in the first three months of this year.

Although that’s still moderate growth, and fears of imminent recession have eased in recent weeks, the Commerce report showed the damage already inflicted by the trade war. U.S. business investments and net exports both fell for the second straight quarter, joining U.S. manufacturing in a recession.

Powell said, however, that he didn’t see evidence the weakness in manufacturing or business investments was spilling into consumer spending.

“What we continue to see is good job creation,” he said. “Unemployment has declined again,” he said, noting that it is now at a 50-year low.

“So it’s very positive,” Powell added. “The consumers are doing well and are focused on, you know, the good job market and rising incomes. And that’s their principal focus. So that is the thing that’s pushing the economy forward, and it doesn’t seem to have been affected so far by weakness in the other areas.”

Powell has been under heavy pressure from President Trump to make big rate cuts, and his signal Wednesday that the Fed would be pausing for now is likely to draw more ire from the White House. As in the past, Powell declined Wednesday to comment when asked about Trump’s remarks about the economy.

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Who is George Papadopoulos, the ex-Trump aide in the Russia probe who is running for Katie Hill's seat?

October 31, 2019 | News | No Comments

The former Trump campaign aide who sparked the Russia investigation says he is running for the northern Los Angeles County congressional seat being vacated by resigning Rep. Katie Hill.

George Papadopoulos, who spent two weeks in jail for lying to the FBI agents, filed to run for the seat with the Federal Election Commission on Tuesday.

“I’m smelling blood in the water now that Katie Hill has resigned. California’s 25th congressional district is wide open for the taking,” he tweeted on Sunday, the day Hill, a Democrat, announced she would step down from the seat. “Someone has to step up. I love my state too much to see it run down by candidates like Hill. All talk, no action, and a bunch of sellouts.”

Papadopoulos, 32, pleaded guilty in 2017 to lying to federal agents in the probe of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election; he was sentenced in September 2018.

Assemblywoman Christy Smith, the top Democrat in the race, poked fun at Papadopoulos for not living in the district.

“Welcome to the race. Hey, guess what? This is California, and as soon as you can identify my district on here, you let us know,” Smith, of Santa Clarita, said in a Twitter video on Tuesday, standing before a map of the state. “CA-25 belongs to CA-25.”

Members of Congress do not have to reside in the district they represent. The FEC filing lists his address as near Hollywood. Attempts to reach Papadopoulos’ campaign were unsuccessful, and his campaign website leads to an error message.

Hill announced on Sunday that she planned to resign from Congress amid allegations of inappropriate relationships with subordinates and the release of intimate pictures. She has acknowledged having a relationship with a campaign staffer but denies having had one with a congressional aide. In a video statement Monday, she blamed her estranged husband and a campaign by “the right-wing media and Republican opponents” for the allegations against her.

Her resignation sparked politicians in both parties to eye the district, which was held by Republicans in recent decades until Hill won it in 2018 as part of the “blue wave” that helped Democrats retake control of the House.

Smith immediately announced her candidacy. Secretary of State Alex Padilla had indicated interest in the race, but he said Wednesday that he had decided not to run.

Five Republicans had filed to run before Hill’s announcement, with former Navy pilot Mike Garcia and Lancaster City Councilwoman Angela Underwood Jacobs the biggest fundraisers in the race, according to FEC disclosures. Another Democrat had previously filed to run but has not raised any money.

Papadopoulos came to investigators’ notice during the 2016 campaign after he told an Australian diplomat that Russians had political dirt on Hillary Clinton. After hacked emails were released that summer, the diplomat informed U.S. officials and the counterintelligence investigation began.

About a week after Trump’s January 2017 inauguration, FBI agents interviewed Papadopoulos. The former foreign policy advisor to the Trump campaign lied about his April 2016 conversation with Joseph Mifsud, a Maltese professor working in London who had ties to Russian officials. Papadopoulos said Mifsud told him Russians had “thousands of emails” involving Clinton, but he claimed he had not joined the Trump campaign when they spoke.

The FBI met with Mifsud in the U.S. in early 2017, but Papadopoulos’ lies “undermined investigators’ ability to challenge the professor or potentially detain or arrest him,” prosecutors working for special counsel Robert S. Mueller III argued before his sentencing.

The judge in the sentencing said that by lying to the FBI in hopes of maintaining his shot at a job in the Trump administration, Papadopoulos placed “self-interest over the national interest.”

Impeachment inquiry witness appears a day after resigning from White House

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WASHINGTON —

President Trump’s former top advisor for Russian and European affairs arrived Thursday on Capitol Hill to testify to House impeachment investigators, a day after leaving his job at the White House.

Tim Morrison, the first White House political appointee to testify, didn’t respond to reporters’ questions about his testimony, which takes place behind closed doors, but his information might be central to a push to remove the president from office.

Morrison, who served on the National Security Council, stepped down from that post Wednesday, and a senior administration official said he “decided to pursue other opportunities.” The official, who was not authorized to discuss Morrison’s job and spoke only on the condition of anonymity, said Morrison has been considering leaving the administration for “some time.”

He has been in the spotlight since August, when a government whistleblower said multiple U.S. officials had said Trump was “using the power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country in the 2020 U.S. election.”

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Morrison will be asked to explain that “sinking feeling” he got when Trump demanded that Ukraine’s president investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and meddling in the 2016 election.

Morrison was brought on board by then-national security advisor John Bolton to address arms control matters and later shifted into his current role as a top Russia and Europe advisor. It was there that he stepped into the thick of an in-house squabble about the activities of Trump’s personal attorney Rudolph W. Giuliani, who had been conversing with Ukrainian leaders outside traditional U.S. diplomatic circles.

Known as a hawk in national security circles, Morrison is the first political appointee from the White House to testify before impeachment investigators. The probe has been denounced by the Republican president, who has directed his staff not to testify.

Regardless of what Morrison says, GOP lawmakers will be hard-pressed to dismiss Morrison, formerly a longtime Republican staffer at the House Armed Services Committee. He’s been bouncing around Washington in Republican positions for two decades, having worked for Rep. Mark Kennedy, R-Minn., Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., and as a GOP senior staffer on the House Armed Services Committee, including nearly four years when it was chaired by Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas.

Morrison’s name appeared more than a dozen times in earlier testimony by William Taylor, the acting U.S. ambassador in Ukraine, who told impeachment investigators that Trump was withholding military aid unless the new Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, went public with a promise to investigate Trump’s political rival Joe Biden and his son Hunter. Taylor’s testimony contradicts Trump’s repeated denials that there was any quid pro quo.

Taylor said Morrison recounted a conversation that Gordon Sondland, America’s ambassador to the European Union, had with a top aide to Zelenskiy named Andriy Yermak. Taylor said Morrison told him security assistance would not materialize until Zelenskiy committed to investigate Burisma, a Ukrainian gas company that once employed Biden’s son. A White House meeting for Zelenskiy also was in play.

“I was alarmed by what Mr. Morrison told me about the Sondland-Yermak conversation,” Taylor testified. “This was the first time I had heard that the security assistance — not just the White House meeting — was conditioned on the investigations.”

Taylor testified that Morrison told him he had a “sinking feeling” after learning about a Sept. 7 conversation Sondland had with Trump.

“According to Mr. Morrison, President Trump told Ambassador Sondland that he was not asking for a quid pro quo,” Taylor testified. “But President Trump did insist that President Zelenskiy go to a microphone and say he is opening investigations of Biden and 2016 election interference, and that President Zelenskiy should want to do this himself. Mr. Morrison said that he told Ambassador Bolton and the NSC lawyers of this phone call between President Trump and Ambassador Sondland.”

Morrison told people after Bolton was forced out of his job that the national security adviser had tried to stop Giuliani’s diplomatic dealings with Ukraine and that Morrison agreed, according to a U.S. official, who was not authorized to discuss Morrison’s role in the impeachment inquiry and spoke only on condition of anonymity. The official said Morrison told people that with the appointment of Robert O’Brien as Bolton’s successor, his own future work at the NSC was in a “holding pattern.”

Bolton had brought Morrison into the NSC in July 2018 as senior director for weapons of mass destruction and biodefence. He’s known as an arms control expert or an arms treaty saboteur, depending on who you ask.

Morrison, who earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Minnesota and a law degree from George Washington University, keeps nuclear strategist Herman Kahn’s seminal volume on thermonuclear warfare on a table in his office.

Daryl Kimball, executive director of the Arms Control Association, said Bolton and Morrison are likeminded. Kimball said both have been known for calling up GOP congressional offices warning them against saying anything about arms control that didn’t align with their views.

“Just as John Bolton reportedly did, I would be shocked if Morrison did not regard Giuliani’s activities as being out of bounds,” said Kimball, who has been on opposite sides of arms control debates with Morrison for more than a decade.

Canucks get 49 shots as Kings lose fourth in a row

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Drew Doughty was unequivocal on Tuesday afternoon, the Kings’ veteran defenseman’s faith unwavering even in the wake of a sudden losing skid that felt eerily similar to those that sunk the team last season.

“I know that we’re a better team than we were last year,” Doughty said. “There’s no doubt about that.”

The Kings’ performance Wednesday night, however, was less convincing. In a 5-3 loss to the Vancouver Canucks at Staples Center, they were outshot by a season-worst 49-24, surrendered a season-most four power-play goals and dropped a season-high fourth game in a row.

“It affects the whole team,” coach Todd McLellan said of the repeated penalty kills. “It takes guys out of the play. The momentum goes away, or you never get a chance to gain it. You’re either killing or you’re getting scored on.”

Where complacency took hold last season — leading to a last-place finish in the Western Conference and losing streaks of six, four and 10 games — McLellan this week tried to light a competitive fire under his squad after three consecutive defeats at the end of last week’s trip.

The first-year bench boss inserted rookie forward Carl Grundstrom, recalled this week from the minors, into a newlook top line alongside Jeff Carter and Anze Kopitar. Tyler Toffoli was a healthy scratch, snapping a streak of 207 consecutive appearances (which had been the 20th-longest active such streak in the league). Defenseman Joakim Ryan was replaced with Kurtis MacDermid.

The message: The Kings are willing to make changes in search of results. Their players understand the new standards.

“Last year, the frustrating thing was, early in the season everyone was saying, ‘Oh, it will turn around. It will turn around. It’s going to come.’ It just never turned around,” Doughty said. “This year … it’s about making it turn around. I think that’s what our focus is in here. We’re a lot more confident in this team this year than we were last year.”

They looked so early Wednesday, striking first after Kopitar (who recorded his 900th career point) set up Carter (who scored twice) in front of the Canucks goal for a backhanded finish.

But then the Kings’ parade to the penalty box began.

They took four minor penalties in the opening period, leading to two Canucks goals from Brock Boeser (a sharp-angle shot) and Bo Horvat (a deflected point shot). In the second and third, they took two more — both of which the Canucks capitalized on.

“We took two or three penalties tonight that were unnecessary,” McLellan said. “They didn’t prevent goals, they didn’t affect the play at all.

As a result, the penalty kill goes to work and it’s been very poor, tonight especially … Certainly not of NHL standards.”

Adrian Kempe scored a power-play goal to tie the game at 2-2 in the second before Boeser got behind the Kings’ defense on a partial line change later in the period and lifted a backhanded deke past goalie Jonathan Quick’s blocker for a go-ahead goal.

Boeser scored again 55 seconds into the third — the Canucks’ third power-play goal — after his centering pass deflected off Doughty’s skate and into the net for his third career hat trick.

Elias Pettersson sniped Quick on the man-advantage later in the period, dropping the Kings’ season-long penalty kill success rate to 68.8%.

“Let’s face it, if we gave up one penalty-kill goal tonight, we’d maybe be talking about a different story,” McLellan said. “We can talk about lines and combinations and sitting guys out and all that [but] the penalty kill is the story.”

The Kings will end the season’s opening month with only eight points in 13 games, stuck in last place in the Western Conference.

Already, vultures are beginning to circle (Ottawa Senators general manager Pierre Dorion and more than 20 other league scouts and executives were listed as Staples Center attendees Wednesday). The promise of the season’s early weeks is fading fast. Yet, their search for answers continues.

“We dropped three in a row [before tonight],” Kopitar said. “So you know changes are going to happen.”

Guard Tyger Campbell shines in UCLA exhibition basketball win

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Tracking UCLA’s highlights on Wednesday night involved following the floppy hair.

It belonged to Tyger Campbell, the dreadlock-wearing point guard who was in the midst of almost everything the Bruins did well in their only exhibition game.

He threw a lob to Jalen Hill for a dunk, found Prince Ali for a three-pointer and made a bounce pass to Alex Olesinski for a layup. And that was just on his team’s first three baskets.

Campbell made coach Mick Cronin a winner in his debut inside Pauley Pavilion, the redshirt freshman carrying the Bruins to an 87-57 victory over Stanislaus State a week before their season opener.

Campbell finished with 14 points, 11 assists and two steals in 27 minutes in his long-awaited introduction to the home fans after sitting out last season because of torn knee ligaments.

“I’ve been itching to get back out there, and obviously tonight I just felt great out there,” said Campbell, who received a loud ovation from the crowd of 3,221 after departing the game shortly after throwing his fourth alley-oop pass, which Jaime Jaquez Jr. grabbed for a layup.

The Bruins got a scare midway through the second half when Ali hurt his right ankle and hobbled around for a few seconds while grimacing before motioning to the bench that he needed to come out. Cronin said Ali did not break the ankle, but he did not have any further information on the severity of the injury.

One of the first things Cronin mentioned was his team’s 44 deflections, calling it “a UCLA stat now” that he will closely track each game. He said teams that collect at least 40 deflections win 95% of those games.

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“It’s the greatest single indicator of your defensive effort,” Cronin said, referring to a statistic that includes tipped passes, blocked shots and recovered loose balls.

UCLA’s offense hinged almost exclusively on Campbell in the early going. He was involved in his team’s first 11 points via assist or scoring (including two Jules Bernard free throws that came as a result of taking a pass from Campbell on a fast break).

The Bruins struggled to generate offense when Campbell went to the bench and fell behind by as many as as four points in the first half before running off 11 consecutive points to take control.

Campbell showed that he could do more than pass, tipping a Stanislaus State entry pass to himself for a steal and scoring on a variety of moves. He used a nifty ball fake to elude a defender before whirling for a short jumper, buried an open three-pointer and made a floater at the halftime buzzer that earned him a celebratory body bump with Hill.

Chris Smith, continuing to search for an identity after two inconsistent seasons, scored 13 points, grabbed nine rebounds and made nine deflections.

“I told him if I had his size and athleticism,” Cronin said of the 6-foot-9 guard, “my identity would be deflections, defense, blocked shots, rebounds. … He’s really trying to embrace that.”

Hill, Riley and Jaquez each added 11 points for the Bruins, who used 11 players even before Cronin emptied his bench in the final minutes against Stanislaus State, a Division II team from Turlock, Calif. Cronin said that would likely be his rotation once the season starts against Long Beach State on Nov. 6 at home.

“Everybody that subs in,” Smith said, “is just as good or even better than the starters.”

Racing! One day to go to the Breeders’ Cup

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Hello, my name is John Cherwa and welcome back to our horse racing newsletter as we circle around one more time on those in the Breeders’ Cup Classic and Distaff.

As usual this Breeders’ Cup week, there’s a lot to get to. But first, in Wednesday’s newsletter, I failed to mention we had a story on the 10-year anniversary of Zenyatta’s win in the Breeders’ Cup Classic. In the story, I talk to John Shirreffs, Mike Smith, Trevor Denman and Jon White. You can read it here. You can watch the race here.

And, Thursday, we met up with Richard Mandella to talk about Omaha Beach’s hopes to win the Dirt Mile and put him in position for 3-year-old horse of the year. You can read it here.

On to the notes.

Breeders’ Cup notes

As we’ve done every day this week, we called up on the Breeders’ Cup notes team to update us on horses in the big races. Many thanks to them. This is an edited version of their report.

Classic

Code of Honor – He jogged for a while Wednesday morning, then galloped 1 ½ miles for exercise rider Lexi Pradun. Rider and horse returned to the barn area through the paddock and returned to the paddock in mid-morning for more schooling.

“It looks like to me that he gets over [the track] fine,” trainer Shug McGaughey said. “I asked Lexi too and she said fine. She took hold of him the whole way. I can’t worry about the track. … There are two really major races in the United States that I haven’t won, the Preakness and the Breeders’ Cup Classic. I’ve been close in both of them, so they’re both on my list. I hope that maybe this year we can get the one behind us.”

Elate/Yoshida – Elate and stablemate Yoshida both galloped Wednesday and went through the paddock with exercise rider Juan Quintero aboard each. “We’re throwing [Elate] in deep water,” said trainer Bill Mott. We seldom run the fillies against the colts unless we think we’ve got a top-class horse and one that would fit the race. I think she fits the conditions of the race very well and she’s proven it. Of course, we’re running against good competition so she still has to run her very best race to compete.”

Higher Power – Higher Power galloped and stood in the gate Wednesday, coming to the track around 6:30 a.m. along with stablemate Ollie’s Candy. “It’s an interesting field, it’s probably a great gambling race this year because you could take a lot of horses and say they have a pretty good chance,” trainer John Sadler said. “There are a lot question marks on all of them. With Higher Power, can he repeat that performance that he had at Del Mar and do it again? Because he’s got that one. But he has to do it again. Can McKinzie go a mile and a quarter? That’s another one. Then, how do the 3-year-olds stack up against the olders? So, there are a lot of angles you can look at. [Elate] looks like she wants that distance, she’s also a Medaglia d’Oro. That’s another fascinating look at that race.”

Math Wizard – The Pennsylvania Derby winner jogged once around the Santa Anita track under assistant trainer Sabine Langvad Wednesday, the morning after arriving from South Florida. “He got in late last night,” trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. said. “He got in around 10 [p.m.]. His flight was delayed because of weather. He ate well. He traveled well. He likes to travel. Whenever he travels, he wakes up when he gets there.”

McKinzie – On Wednesday morning, McKinzie jogged a mile under exercise rider Humberto Gomez.

Mongolian Groom – Trainer Enebish Ganbat sent the 4-year-old gelding for his morning exercise Wednesday and morning and had rider Jesse Cardenas jog him a mile then gallop a half-mile. “I want to do exactly what I did before the Awesome Again,” Ganbat said.

Owendale – Owendale made his presence felt Wednesday, his first morning to gallop at Santa Anita since arriving Tuesday from Kentucky and his confidence carried over to his trainer Brad Cox. “He’s moving as well as he can move, looks as well as he can look,” Cox said. “It’s a step up from the Oklahoma Derby, but’s a nice horse going the right way at the right time. He hasn’t run a bad race all year. Once he took off this spring, when he won the Lexington, that was his coming out party. It showed he can run with the big horses. His training has been the exact same all year. He’s a very consistent horse and keeps getting better.”

Seeking the Soul – Seeking the Soul followed his usual routine of galloping 1 ½ miles before daylight and continues to “train beautifully,” according to his trainer Dallas Stewart.

Vino Rosso – He galloped 1 3/8 miles and stood in the starting gate at Santa Anita Wednesday morning. “He’s doing great,” trainer Todd Pletcher said. “He showed a lot of energy going on and off the track.”

War of Will – Trainer Mark Casse is always encouraged when War of Will gets to bucking on the track. He threw in one of his playful jumps while galloping along with stablemate Got Stormy on Wednesday morning. “He needs to come with his Derby race [on Saturday],” Casse said. “Everything we’ve kind of done up to this now has been looking at how we did the Kentucky Derby. I think he came with his ‘A’ game in the Kentucky Derby. Probably a B-plus game in the Preakness. Our feeling is he’s older, he’s more mature now and why not. If he comes with his big race, then everyone will know he’s there.”

Distaff

Blue Prize – She galloped 1 3/8 miles under exercise rider Hiram Rosario on Wednesday morning as she continued her preparations. “These Grade 1s are always tough and it is the same this year with five, six, seven Grade 1 winners in there,” trainer Ignacio Correas IV said. “Last year it was Monomoy Girl and this year it is Midnight Bisou. You try to be competitive going into these races and I feel very good about my horse. But there are other people that feel good, too; another 10 people.”

Dunbar Road – On Wednesday morning, the Alabama winner left Barn 48 with stablemates Sistercharlie and Bricks and Mortar and proceeded to gallop an easy 1¼ miles over the main track. “In the Spinster she didn’t get a good trip,” trainer Chad Brown said. “She was stuck on a dead rail and closer to the pace than she normally is. It just wasn’t good. If she could have been a little further back and got a clear trip, she could have won the race. If she gets a cleaner trip, I expect a much better effort this time.”

La Force – Trainer Paddy Gallagher had La Force on the track early today for a 1 ½ mile gallop as she readies for what likely will be her final start. As usual, regular rider Caesar Garcia was aboard. This will be the third Breeders’ Cup appearance for La Force.

Midnight Bisou – Midnight Bisou galloped an easy 1 ¼ miles with Angel Garcia aboard, according to trainer Steve Asmussen’s assistant Scott Blasi. “[Jockey] Mike [Smith] rides her every day and has a tremendous amount of confidence in her, so however the pace goes, he’s the one riding,” Blasi said. “Coming into the race, she gets pretty sharp. She knows it’s game time, now. Like most good horses, they get into that routine. They know what you’re doing with them and she knows she’s running this week.”

Mo See Cal – Mo See Cal galloped 1 mile at San Luis Rey Downs on Wednesday morning before arriving at Santa Anita Park around 10 a.m. “She’s doing great,” trainer Peter Miller said from San Luis Rey. “She galloped today and arrived there this morning.”

Ollie’s Candy — Ollie’s Candy came to the track around 6:30 a.m. with stablemate Higher Power on Wednesday, putting in a gallop and standing in the gate while under the guidance of exercise rider Juan Leyva. “She was good before I got her and she ran a really nice race at Del Mar last time out in the Clement Hirsch,” trainer John Sadler said. “She won a stakes here at 3, she won the Summertime Oaks, so I think she ought to be highly competitive. She’s training very well for this race.”

Paradise Woods – In her second spin around the Santa Anita main track Wednesday, she seemed much more settled under exercise rider Cisco Alvarado. “There was a lot of traffic this morning so the first time around, she pulls. But the second time, she relaxes,” trainer John Shirreffs said.

Secret Spice – Trainer Richard Baltas supervised his stakes-winning filly Secret Spice as she schooled in the starting gate, then galloped 1 ¼ miles over the main track under exercise rider Sarafin Carmona.

Serengeti Empress –Serengeti Empress got her first feel for the main track at Santa Anita Wednesday morning, jogging under exercise rider William Chavez for trainer Tom Amoss.

Street Band – Street Band, making her first appearance on the Santa Anita track Wednesday, schooled in the gate and galloped 1 ½ mile with trainer and co-owner Larry Jones on board. She also schooled in the paddock. “She got a little antsy in the paddock, but that’s just her,” Jones said. “She galloped nicely and was perfect in the gate.”

Wow Cat – Wow Cat went to the Santa Anita Park main track with fellow Chad Brown trainees Thais and Uni and galloped 1¼ miles. “She’s training well and is coming into the race well,” Brown said. “This year we’re hoping for a good trip with her.”

Santa Anita preview

It’s not quite the lead-in card to the Breeders’ Cup you would hope for, but it is what it is. There are nine races starting at 1 p.m. There are three turf races, with a rail set at 20 feet. Expect zero feet on Friday and Saturday. There are five races for 2-year-olds.

The feature is the $70,000 Lure Stakes for horses going a mil eon the turf. There are actually some decent horses in the race who are used to racing in bigger stakes. The favorite, at 5-2, is Restrainedvengence for trainer Val Brinkerhoff and jockey Martin Garcia. He was second last out in the Grade 2 City of Hope Stakes and won the Rolling Green Handicap at Golden Gate the start before that. He is four-of-17 lifetime and one for five this year.

River Boyne is the second favorite at 7-2. He is trained by Jeff Mullins and will be ridden by Frankie Dettori. He is a strong seven-of-19 lifetime but is winless in five tries this year. He was 11thin the City og Hope last out but finished second in the Shoemaker Mile the start before that. Post time is about 4:35 p.m.

Here are the field sizes, in order: 9, 6, 7, 6, 8, 8, 8, 9, 10.

Ciaran Thornton’s SA pick of the day

RACE ONE: No. 3 Impossible Task (6-1)

Impossible Task was one of those rare Doug O’Neill horses that did not win at Del Mar. Last out in August, John Sadler claimed the horse and now Joel Rosario rides for Hronis racing. That’s a potent team. We see some sharp works since that last race. 6-1 is great value. Sadler removes the blinkers Thursday and he is 22% for a profit on this move. The horse was also gelded since that last race and is protected today Lots to like here.

Sunday’s result: K P All Systems Go was bet down to 5/2 at post time. For the second race in a row Mike Smith had the winning horse sitting back in Del Mar into the turn before uncorking yet another late move to finish second. Those are the rides that drive horseplayers mad! K P paid $3.40 for place.

Ciaran Thornton is the handicapper for Californiapick4.com, which offers daily full card picks, longshots of the day, best bets of the day.

Golden Gate weekend preview

Here’s our weekly look at the best racing going on at Golden Gate Fields. As with the last meeting, we’re delighted to have race caller and all-around good guy Matt Dinerman as our host for previews and other musings. So, take it away, Matt.

“Our Thursday and Sunday race cards begin at our usual 12:45 p.m. post times, while Friday’s nine-race card starts at 12:10 p.m. and Saturday’s at 11:30 a.m.

“Our feature on Saturday is a new stake, the Joseph T. Grace Stakes on turf for 3-year-olds and up. The marquee race of the week is led by Grecian Fire, who won the Grade 3 All American Stakes over this track in late May and won the California Dreamin’ Handicap at Del Mar this summer. Willam Antongeorgi III, who is currently in a three-way tie atop the jockey standings, has the call. Others figuring to get support are Mugaritz, coming off a win in the Bulldog Stakes at Fresno, his stablemate Sixes and the stakes performers Builder and Camino Del Paraiso. Nine runners are entered the 1 1/16-mile race.

“No Stronach 5 wager this Friday, but there are plenty of interesting races. The feature is the eighth, an allowance for fillies and mares sprinting on the Tapeta. Your likely favorite is recent California-bred maiden special weight winner Miss Megan, who broke her maiden at Del Mar by double digit lengths. Andy Mathis trains the daughter of Richard’s Kid, whose main competition includes Southern California shipper Stirred from the Michael McCarthy barn, the Steve Miyadi trained Ruby Bradley and Sweet Rafaela from the Isidro Tamayo barn.

“Speaking of Isidro, congratulations to the 33-year-old conditioner for picking up his first career hat trick on Friday afternoon. Tamayo won the second race with Mr. Q, the third with Passionate Reward and the nightcap with Conquest Sabre Cat. He’s an up and coming trainer that folks should pay attention to. He does a terrific job with his string of 47 horses.

“Lastly, good luck to trainer Blaine Wright, who saddles Anneau D’Or in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile on Saturday. Owned by Peter Redekop, the son of Medaglia D’Oro has raced just once, resulting in an eight-length win against maidens on turf at Golden Gate. Juan Hernandez retains the mount on the $480,000 purchase, who is out of the Tapit mare and Grade 3 winner Walk Close. Santa Anita morning line maker Jon White has installed Anneau D’Or as the 15-1 morning line fifth choice.

“We’re taking a shot,” Wright said. “He’s a very talented horse and he’s doing great.”

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Now, the star of the show, Thursday’s entries.

Santa Anita Entries for Thursday, October 31.

Santa Anita, Santa Anita Park, Arcadia, California. 20th day of a 23-day meet.

FIRST RACE.

5½ Furlongs Turf. Purse: $50,000. Maiden Special Weight. 2 year olds.

PP	Horse	Jockey	Wt	Trainer	M-L	Claim $
1	Drasario	John Velazquez	122	Richard Baltas	15-1
2	Too Late	Mario Gutierrez	122	Doug F. O’Neill	4-1
3	Impossible Task	Joel Rosario	122	John W. Sadler	6-1
4	Witch’s Vow	Tiago Pereira	122	Hector O. Palma	15-1
5	Smooth Like Strait	Geovanni Franco	122	Michael W. McCarthy	7-2
6	Heywoods Beach	Jorge Velez	117	John W. Sadler	6-1
7	Dean Martini	Javier Castellano	122	Peter Miller	5-2
8	Nineeleventurbo	Flavien Prat	122	Neil D. Drysdale	8-1
9	Phast Pharoah	Victor Espinoza	122	Jeff Bonde	12-1

SECOND RACE.

1 Mile. Purse: $50,000. Maiden Special Weight. Fillies. 2 year olds.

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PP	Horse	Jockey	Wt	Trainer	M-L	Claim $
1	I’m the Hero	Evin Roman	122	Adam Kitchingman	8-1
2	Saralin	Flavien Prat	122	Simon Callaghan	9-5
3	Antigone	Tyler Baze	122	Simon Callaghan	3-1
4	Gingham	Joel Rosario	122	Bob Baffert	6-5
5	Well Done Sally	Martin Garcia	122	Kristin Mulhall	12-1
6	Lizzario	Rafael Bejarano	122	J. Keith Desormeaux	20-1

THIRD RACE.

7 Furlongs. Purse: $28,000. Maiden Claiming. 2 year olds. Claiming Price $50,000. State bred.

PP	Horse	Jockey	Wt	Trainer	M-L	Claim $
1	Carnelian Hero	Rafael Bejarano	122	Jeff Bonde	4-1	50,000
2	Include the Tax	J.C. Diaz, Jr.	117	Michael W. McCarthy	3-1	50,000
3	Successful Command	Tyler Baze	122	J. Eric Kruljac	8-1	50,000
4	Wicked Blue	Modesto Linares	122	Vernon E. Aguayo	15-1	50,000
5	Baltimore Beecho	Assael Espinoza	122	Jorge Periban	6-1	50,000
6	Papa Tony	Tiago Pereira	122	George Papaprodromou	12-1	50,000
7	Govenor Cinch	Ruben Fuentes	122	Tim Yakteen	6-5	50,000

FOURTH RACE.

1 Mile. Purse: $31,000. Starter Optional Claiming. 2 year olds. Claiming Price $40,000.

PP	Horse	Jockey	Wt	Trainer	M-L	Claim $
1	Delp	Diego Sanchez	122	J. Keith Desormeaux	4-1
2	Vastly Deep	Eswan Flores	120	Steven Miyadi	3-1
3	Absolute Weapon	Abel Cedillo	120	Andrew Lerner	2-1
4	Destiny’s Journey	Assael Espinoza	119	Steve Knapp	6-1
5	Old Trafford	Martin Garcia	122	Simon Callaghan	3-1	40,000
6	Billy K	Jorge Velez	114	Ryan Hanson	8-1	40,000

FIFTH RACE.

1 Mile Turf. Purse: $32,000. Claiming. Fillies and Mares. 3 year olds and up. Claiming Price $32,000.

PP	Horse	Jockey	Wt	Trainer	M-L	Claim $
1	Quinnie	Geovanni Franco	125	Carla Gaines	12-1	32,000
2	Gone to Bali	Evin Roman	125	Vann Belvoir	8-1	32,000
3	Saburai	J.C. Diaz, Jr.	120	Vladimir Cerin	7-2	32,000
4	South Boot Shirley	Joseph Talamo	125	Craig Dollase	8-1	32,000
5	Tig Tog	Joel Rosario	125	John W. Sadler	5-2	32,000
6	Candy Swirls	Tiago Pereira	125	William Spawr	4-1	32,000
7	Pacifica	Jorge Velez	117	Leonard Powell	10-1	32,000
8	Wind Tartare	Rafael Bejarano	125	Vann Belvoir	4-1	32,000

SIXTH RACE.

1 Mile. Purse: $21,000. Maiden Claiming. Fillies. 2 year olds. Claiming Price $30,000.

PP	Horse	Jockey	Wt	Trainer	M-L	Claim $
1	K P Cats Wild	Abel Cedillo	122	Robert B. Hess, Jr.	5-2	30,000
2	Calese	Hector Berrios	122	Robert B. Hess, Jr.	8-1	30,000
3	Teachers Big Dream	Jorge Velez	117	Eddie Truman	6-1	30,000
4	Circleofcolor	Geovanni Franco	122	John C. Ivory	7-2	30,000
5	Totally Normal	Tyler Baze	122	Jeffrey Metz	12-1	30,000
6	Kuda Huraa	Drayden Van Dyke	122	George Papaprodromou	4-1	30,000
7	Vannavanna Bo Bana	Mario Gutierrez	122	Steve Knapp	6-1	30,000
8	Sharp Turn	J.C. Diaz, Jr.	117	Mike Harrington	8-1	30,000

SEVENTH RACE.

1 Mile. Purse: $50,000. Maiden Special Weight. Fillies and Mares. 3 year olds and up.

PP	Horse	Jockey	Wt	Trainer	M-L	Claim $
1	Catch the Eye	Martin Garcia	122	David E. Hofmans	8-1
2	Mucho Macho Woman	Joseph Talamo	122	Ronald W. Ellis	4-1
3	Paige Runner	Jorge Velez	117	Gary Mandella	4-1
4	Saving Sophie	Drayden Van Dyke	122	Ronald W. Ellis	3-1
5	Amatara	Flavien Prat	122	Richard Baltas	5-2
6	Full Eclipse	Brice Blanc	122	John E. Cortez	20-1
7	Cover Version	Victor Espinoza	125	James M. Cassidy	6-1
8	Karmically	J.C. Diaz, Jr.	117	John A. Shirreffs	15-1

EIGHTH RACE.

1 Mile Turf. Purse: $70,000. ‘Lure Stakes (R)’. 3 year olds and up.

PP	Horse	Jockey	Wt	Trainer	M-L	Claim $
1	River Boyne	Lanfranco Dettori	125	Jeff Mullins	7-2
2	Declarationofpeace	Joel Rosario	121	John W. Sadler	8-1
3	Tule Fog	Tiago Pereira	123	Javier Jose Sierra	30-1
4	Double Touch	John Velazquez	125	John W. Sadler	6-1
5	Brown Storm	Javier Castellano	125	Michael W. McCarthy	12-1
6	Ritzy A. P.	Flavien Prat	125	Dan Blacker	10-1
7	Lil Milo	Tyler Baze	121	Alfredo Marquez	12-1
8	Ronald R	Drayden Van Dyke	123	Ronald W. Ellis	10-1
9	Andesh	Abel Cedillo	123	Philip D’Amato	4-1
10	Restrainedvengence	Martin Garcia	125	Val Brinkerhoff	5-2

NINTH RACE.

6 Furlongs. Purse: $15,000. Claiming. Fillies and Mares. 3 year olds and up. Claiming Price $12,500.

PP	Horse	Jockey	Wt	Trainer	M-L	Claim $
1	Busy Paynter	Tiago Pereira	122	Brian J. Koriner	9-5	12,500
2	Blew by You	Henry Lopez	117	Daniel Dunham	20-1	12,500
3	Coilette	Mario Gutierrez	122	Jorge Periban	3-1	12,500
4	Hola Mazuma	Edgar Payeras	122	Vann Belvoir	20-1	12,500
5	Tribal Dance	Abel Cedillo	125	Mark Glatt	3-1	12,500
6	Warm It Up	Modesto Linares	125	Vernon E. Aguayo	30-1	12,500
7	At the Margin	Assael Espinoza	122	Jairo B. Monascal	30-1	12,500
8	Promnesia	Ruben Fuentes	125	Reed Saldana	12-1	12,500
9	Secret Maneuver	Jorge Velez	117	Milton G. Pineda	8-1	12,500
10	Heart of the Nile	Eswan Flores	125	Hector O. Palma	8-1	12,500