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Unbridled's Song legacy grows with Will Take Charge
Sunday, January 19, 2014
Unbridled's Song's multiple Grade One winner Will Take Charge was named Champion 3-year-old Male during Saturday evening's Eclipse Awards...
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Dunkirk Picks Up Unbridled's Song's Torch
Thursday, January 09, 2014
As the calendar flips over to a new year, it's always educational to look at the top freshman sires—those with their first crop of 2-year-olds—and see how this crop is unfolding. To date the leader is a son of the emerging sire of sires, Unbridled's Song...
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Unbridled's Song Plays On Through His Sons
Monday, January 06, 2014
Was it fate that kept Unbridled's Song in the United States after Japanese buyer Hiroshi Fujita detected an ankle chip in the colt shortly after bidding $1.4 million to purchase him...
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Graydar comes up big in Grade 2 Kelso
Saturday, September 28, 2013
After a front-running victory in Saturday's $400,000 Kelso H. (G2) at Belmont Park, Graydar, a 4-year-old Unbridled's Song colt, is headed to Santa Anita Park for the Breeders' Cup...
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Will Take Charge commanding in $1 million Pa. Derby (G2)
Saturday, September 21, 2013
Will Take Charge, a 3-year-old Unbridled's Song colt, set himself up for the Breeders' Cup Classic (G1) with a stirring victory in the $1 million Pennsylvania Derby (G2)...
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Almost Famous a 'Rising Star' at Churchill Downs
Saturday, September 14, 2013
An eye-catching, very quick six furlong debut by Almost Famous Friday at Churchill Downs earned the Unbridled's Song colt the prestigious TDN 'Rising Star' tag...
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Unbridled's Song colt tops $1 million at Keeneland
Monday, September 09, 2013
A colt by Unbridled's Song sold for $1.1 million on the first day of the Keeneland September yearling sale, the top price for a colt...
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Thrilling Grade 1 Travers goes to Will Take Charge
Saturday, August 24, 2013
Will Take Charge, Unbridled's Song's top 3-year-old, caught Moreno in the final stride to win the $1 million Travers (G1) on Saturday...
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Cross Traffic honors Unbridled's Song in Grade 1 Whitney H.
Saturday, August 03, 2013
Cross Traffic win in Saturday's $750,000 Whitney H. (G1) was a fitting tribute to his sire Unbridled's Song, who passed away on July 26...
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Three-time G1 winner, leading sire Unbridled's Song euthanized
Friday, July 26, 2013
One of the Thoroughbred industry's top racehorses and prolific sires, Unbridled's Song, was euthanized Friday due to a...
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Keep Up Is 6th SW of Year for Unbridled's Song
Saturday, June 08, 2013
Keep Up sped last to first to snare the Swoon's Son Stakes on June 8th at Arlington Park. Keep...
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Unbridled's Song has best average price at F-T Midlantic sale
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Unbridled's Song's sales average of $276,667 at the May 20-21 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2-year-olds in training sale in Timonium, Md. led all sires...
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Unbridled's Song colt tops day 1 at F-T Midlantic sale
Monday, May 20, 2013
A bay colt by Unbridled's Song attracted a final bid of $330,000 to top the first of two sessions at Fasig-Tipton's Midlantic 2-year-olds in Training sale on May 20...
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Noble Tune all class in Grade 2 American Turf
Friday, May 03, 2013
Noble Tune rocketed to the front in upper stretch and cruised to a 1 3/4-length victory in the $234,200 American Turf (G2) Friday afternoon at Churchill Downs...
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Unbridled's Song filly tops Keeneland 2YO sale
Monday, April 08, 2013
The sales topper at Monday's Keeneland April 2-year-olds sale was a $700,000 filly by Unbridled's Song who is a half-sister to Eden's Moon...
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Graydar keeps rolling in G2 New Orleans H.
Saturday, March 30, 2013
Graydar affirmed himself as the nation's top older horse with a 1 3/4-length score in Saturday's $400,000 New Orleans H. (G2) at Fair Grounds...
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Unbridled's Song colt wins G2 Rebel S.
Sunday, March 17, 2013
Will Take Charge's dramatic win in Saturday's $600,000 Rebel Stakes (G2) earned the 3-year-old Unbridled's Song colt 50 points towards entry into the Kentucky Derby...
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Unbridled's Song progeny highlight Sunday at Gulfstream
Sunday, March 10, 2013
A pair of runners by Unbridled's Song grabbed plenty of attention Sunday at Gulfstream Park after turning in impressive performances...
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Noble Tune wins thriller in 2013 debut
Saturday, March 09, 2013
Unbridled's Song's Grade 3 winner Noble Tune closed with a furious rush through the Tampa Bay Downs stretch to win his first start of the year Saturday...
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Unbridled's Note best in Santa Anita's Joe Hernandez H.
Sunday, February 24, 2013
Unbridled's Note, runner-up in the 2012 Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint (G1), emerged victorious as the favorite in the $76,900 Joe Hernandez H. over the Santa Anita downhill turf course Saturday...
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Graydar's G1 Donn triumph gives Unbridled's Song 100 SWs
Saturday, February 09, 2013
Unbridled's Song joined the century club in a big way Saturday when Graydar scored an electrifying win in the $500,000 Donn H. (G1) at Gulfstream Park...
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Unrivaled Honor rolls by nearly a dozen in maiden score
Monday, February 04, 2013
Unrivaled Honor left the field in her wake with a rollicking 11 3/4-length maiden score by the 3-year-old daughter of Unbridled's Song...
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Melody Lady hits winning note in El Paso Times S.
Saturday, January 26, 2013
Melody Lady became the 99th career stakes winner for Unbridled's Song on Jan. 26, with a dominating 6 1/4-length win in the $50,000 El Paso Times S...
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Regally-bred Cross Traffic delivers at first asking
Thursday, January 24, 2013
Cross Traffic got the green light in mid-stretch and the Unbridled's Song colt drew off to a rousing 1 3/4-length victory Thursday at Gulfstream Park...
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Unbridled's Song colt has connections looking to the Derby
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
In a stretch run befitting his name, Will Take Charge forged to victory in the $150,000 Smarty Jones S. Jan. 21 at Oaklawn to put the 3-year-old Unbridled's Song colt on the Triple Crown trail...
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Unbridled's Song colt starts year off on high note
Tuesday, January 01, 2013
Regally-bred Play It Loud unveiled his talents Jan. 1 at Gulfstream Park with a very sharp-looking four length debut maiden win...
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Graydar just misses one mile track record at Gulfstream Park
Thursday, December 06, 2012
Graydar, a 3-year-old son of Unbridled's Song, cruised to victory Thursday at Gulfstream Park, coming within one-hundredth of a second of the one mile track record...
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Well Heeled strides clear in MSW debut
Saturday, December 01, 2012
Well Heeled's impressive turn of foot on the turn took the 2-year-old Unbridled's Song filly into the winner's circle in her racing debut Dec. 1 at Aqueduct...
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Keep Up gives Unbridled's Song another GSW
Sunday, November 25, 2012
Keep Up held off 4-5 favorite Boisterous in the $115,700 River City H. (G3) on closing day of the Churchill Downs Fall meet...
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Unbridled's Song 2yo looks the part in Churchill allowance win
Saturday, November 24, 2012
Regally-bred Gulfport turned in a sharp-looking allowance win at Churchill to give the gray son of Unbridled's Song his second career victory...
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2013 Taylor Made Stallions stud fees released
Sunday, November 11, 2012
Taylor Made Stallions has announced fees for it's 2013 roster of stallions, headlined once again by leading sire Unbridled's Song who will stand for $60,000 stands and nurses...
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TCI: 2012 Breeders' Cup selection show
Thursday, November 01, 2012
Breeders' Cup weekend is here, and the TCI Boys make & define their selections in all 15...
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Breeders' Cup preview: Unbridled's Song
Monday, October 29, 2012
Unbridled's Song will be represented by a quartet of horses in four different races in this year's Breeders' Cup...
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Will Take Charge rules at Keeneland with bold stretch run
Friday, October 19, 2012
Unbridled's Song has another star in the making after Will Take Charge's flamboyant maiden win Oct. 18 at Keeneland...
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Unbridled's Song 2yo headed to Breeders' Cup after scoring in G3 Pilgrim S.
Monday, October 08, 2012
Noble Tune turned in another impressive performance to take the $150,000 Pilgrim S. (G3) Monday at Belmont Park...
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Unbridled's Note bests elders in Grade 3 Eddie D. stakes
Friday, September 28, 2012
Unbridled's Note overcame post position 12 on the Santa Anita downhill turf course to emerge victorious in the $100,000 Eddie D...
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Unbridled's Song $800k colt highlights Kee Day 4
Thursday, September 13, 2012
The fourth day of the Keeneland sale saw a colt by Unbridled's Song consigned by Taylor Made Sales Agency bring a winning bid of $800,000, the third-highest price of the session...
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Inspired gives Unbridled's Song a Labor Day weekend stakes double
Monday, September 03, 2012
Inspired's one-length victory in the $200,000 Turf Amazon S. Sept. 3 at Parx Racing gave Unbridled's Song his second stakes winner of the holiday weekend...
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Emcee gets his Grade 1 in Forego S.
Saturday, September 01, 2012
Unbridled's Song 4-year-old Emcee broke into the stakes-winner ranks in a big way with a 4 1/2-length win in the $500,000 Forego S. (G1)...
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'Chart Topper' at OBS for Unbridled's Song
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
A son of Unbridled's Song was the highest-priced juvenile sold on day one of the OBS June Sale of Two-Year-Olds in Training...
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Unbridled`s Song SW speeds three-fifths off course record
Monday, June 18, 2012
Inspired, a 5-year-old daughter of Unbridled's Song, missed the course record by 3/5 of a second...
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Unbridled's Song juvy is up to debut challenge
Thursday, May 31, 2012
Fully Living overcame an adventurous start and race-long duel to break her maiden at first asking Thursday at Belmont Park...
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Justanoldsong easy winner in Sunray H.
Sunday, May 06, 2012
Justanoldsong found the one-mile distance of the $50,000 SunRay Park H. to his liking...
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Graydar spectacular in Gulfstream unveiling
Saturday, April 14, 2012
Graydar, a 3-year-old son of Unbridled's Song, took his career debut by 8 1/2 lengths going a one-turn mile at Gulfstream on April 8...
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Embur's Song wins older female Sovereign Award
Friday, April 06, 2012
Embur's Song won the 2011 Sovereign award in the older female category, giving her sire Unbridled's Song his first Canadian champion...
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Unbridled's Song offering brings $315K at Fasig-Tipton Florida sale
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
The Fasig-Tipton Florida sale of 2-year-olds lone offering in the catalog by Unbridled's Song got plenty of attention in the sales ring, bringing a winning bid of $315,000...
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Inspired battles to victory in Happy Ticket S.
Saturday, March 24, 2012
Inspired, a 5-year-old mare by Unbridled Song, fought her way to a dead-heat victory in the $75,000 Happy Ticket S. March 24 at Fair Grounds...
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Welcome Guest makes herself at home at Gulfstream
Wednesday, March 07, 2012
Welcome Guest took liking to the demanding 7 1/2-furlong distance March 7 at Gulfstream Park as the 3-year-old daughter of Unbridled's Song romped to a 5 1/2-length victory...
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Inspired has found her niche on the turf
Sunday, March 04, 2012
Inspired, a 5-year-old daughter of Unbridled's Song, racked up her second straight turf sprint stakes win March 4...
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Unbridled's Song colt puts up highest Beyer Figure of 2012
Saturday, February 04, 2012
A pair of potential stars by Unbridled's Song were on display Feb. 3 at Gulfstream Park, both winning with ease in very fast times...
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Inspired performance in $75,000 Pan Zareta S.
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Inspired sprinted to a 1 1/2-length victory Jan. 21 in Fair Grounds' $75,000 Pan Zareta S. for older fillies and mares...
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Unbridled's Song colt bids up to $490K during Keeneland day 2
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
A yearling Unbridled's Song colt attracted plenty of attention late in the second session of the Keeneland January sale...
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Regally-bred Unbridled's Song firster looks good at Gulfstream
Saturday, January 07, 2012
Three-year-old Unbridled Minister split foes in the final furlong to break his maiden at first asking at Gulfstream Park...
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Unbridled Ocean wins smartly on Gulfstream Park turf
Saturday, December 17, 2011
Unbridled Ocean scored for the second time in his last three starts with a courageous neck victory Dec. 17 at Gulfstream Park...
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2012 stud fees released; Unbridled's Song at $85,000
Monday, November 14, 2011
Taylor Made Stallions has announced fees for it's 2012 roster of stallions, headlined once again by leading sire Unbridled's Song...
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Unrivaled Belle sells for $2.8 million at Keeneland
Tuesday, November 08, 2011
Unrivaled Belle highlighted the early part of Tuesday at the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale...
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Unbridled's Note wins easily in debut at Churchill Downs
Sunday, October 30, 2011
First-time starter Unbridled's Note ran off to a 4 1/2-length score Oct. 30 at Churchill Downs, pulling away impressively in the stretch...
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Half Ours third-leading freshman sire of winners
Sunday, October 02, 2011
With 12 winners through the first nine months of 2011, Half Ours has made his way into third place among all freshman sires in terms of juvenile victors...
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Angels Ours leads every step in maiden win
Friday, September 30, 2011
Angels Ours, the second winner in two days for Half Ours, led throughout a 6 1/2- furlong affair to win by a length as the 2-year-old was geared down late...
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Half Ours continues first-crop sire list ascent
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Platinum Power rolled to a seven length maiden victory on Sept. 29, giving his sire Half Ours his eleventh winner in his first crop...
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In Step strides away in Belmont Park's Queen Tutta S.
Sunday, September 18, 2011
In Step cruised to an easy 3 1/4-length winner of the $60,000 Queen Tutta S. for 3-year-old fillies on the Sept. 18 card at Belmont Park...
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Unbridled's Song's Fire on Ice headed to G1 Champagne
Saturday, September 17, 2011
Fire On Ice, a blowout 10 3/4-length winner in his career bow Aug. 27 at Saratoga, is being pointed to the Grade 1 Champagne S. Oct. 8...
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$1.3M filly by Unbridled's Song tops Keeneland sale Thursday session
Thursday, September 15, 2011
On day five of the Keeneland September yearling sale, a filly by Unbridled Song sold for $1.3 million...
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Unbridled's Song firster rolls by 4 1/2 at Belmont
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Three-year-old Emcee was the star of the show in the third race on Sept. 14 at Belmont, drawing off to a 4 1/2-length victory...
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Tenth winner for Half Our comes in Belmont MSW
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Undaunted Ella made the most of her debut with a half-length maiden special weight victory Sept. 14 at Belmont Park...
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Unbridled's Song filly pops for $1 million at Keeneland
Monday, September 12, 2011
Unbridled's Song sired the highest-priced filly at the select portion of Keeneland's September Yearling Sale...
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Half Ours moves into top 5 on freshman sire list
Monday, September 05, 2011
Las Malvegas broke her maiden with an easy three length win at Woodbine on Sept. 4, propelling her sire Half Ours into the top 5 on the first-crop sire list...
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Half Ours 2YO wins at Del Mar
Saturday, September 03, 2011
Top 10 first-crop sire Half Ours registered his seventh winner on Sept. 2 at Del Mar with Quality Elusion's 1 1/2-length win...
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Unbridled's Song 2YO colt dazzles in Saratoga debut
Sunday, August 28, 2011
Fire On Ice blasted to a 10 3/4-length victory in his career bow Aug. 27 at Saratoga, getting the six furlongs in a very quick 1:09.67...
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Unbridled's Song sires #1 filly, #2 colt Day 2 at Saratoga
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Unbridled's Song sired the high-priced filly and the second high-priced colt during Tuesday night's second session of the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga
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WV Speaker's Cup goes to Unbridled's Song colt
Saturday, August 06, 2011
Unbridled's Song's 4-year-old colt Mystic pulled some late-race heroics in the $85,000 West Virginia House of Delegates Speaker's Cup...
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Katz My Song very sharp at Saratoga
Saturday, August 06, 2011
Katz My Song delivered an eye-catching performance to break his maiden at Saratoga in his second career start...
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Half Ours gets first stakes winner
Saturday, August 06, 2011
Freshman sire Half Ours, by Unbridled's Song, got his first career stakes winner Aug. 6 at Mountaineer Park...
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Inspired becomes 90th SW for Unbridled's Song
Saturday, July 30, 2011
Inspired turned in a performance worthy of her name on July 29 at Penn National with a game neck victory...
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Embur's Song rolls to 4th straight stakes win in G3 Matron
Sunday, July 24, 2011
With her front-running victory in the $193,660 Matron S. (G3) July 24 at Woodbine, Embur's Song won her fourth consecutive stakes of 2011...
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$400K Unbridled's Song colt impresses in 2yo debut
Saturday, July 09, 2011
The consisely-named 2-year-old Stat looks like a colt to watch after the son of Unbridled's Song galloped to a two length victory in his career debut...
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Two Song fillies tally 2011 stakes treble
Tuesday, July 05, 2011
Just two days apart, two daughters of Unbridled's Song each racked up their third stakes victory of 2011...
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Unbridled's Song filly debuts like a champ
Tuesday, July 05, 2011
Glamorista left no doubt as to who was best in this six furlong maiden contest July 4 at Hollywood Park...
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Top first crop sire Half Ours gets fifth winner
Monday, July 04, 2011
First-crop sire Half Ours got his fifth winner on July 4 at Penn National...
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Embur's Song smokes foes in G3 Hendrie
Saturday, May 14, 2011
Embur's Song motored to a 3 1/2-length victory in Woodbine's Hendrie S. (G3) on May 14 to score her second straight added money win...
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Embur's Song sets track record in G3 Doubledogdare
Friday, April 22, 2011
Fares Farm's Embur's Song set solid fractions on the way to a track record performance in the $125,000 Doubledogdare S. (G3)...
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First winner for Half Ours comes at Gulfstream Park
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Half Ours got his first winner as a sire when his daughter Zingwella won her career debut April 21 at Gulfstream Park...
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Blood-Horse feature: Training Offspring of Unbridled's Song
Friday, April 08, 2011
Trainers of the top horses sired by the stallion Unbridled's Song are asked their views of the sire's offspring...
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Mission Impazible takes G2 Fair Grounds Handicap
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Mission Impazible, winner of last year's Louisiana Derby (G2), showed his fondness for the New Orleans track once again...
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Ravi's Song continues winning ways at Fair Grounds
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Ravi's Song racked up her second consecutive stakes win at the 2011 Fair Grounds meet March 12...
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La Verita, all-time leading earner for Unbridled's Song
Saturday, March 05, 2011
The 5-year-old mare La Verita racked up her ninth career stakes win March 2 in Japan...
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Regally-bred Ultimate X. shows his class first time out
Monday, February 28, 2011
Ultimate X., a 3-year-old colt by Unbridled's Song, took to the muddy surface at Parx on Feb. 28 to register a handy three-quarter length win...
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150th Stakes Horse for Unbridled's Song
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Unbridled's Song sired four stakes horses in a 17-day span, including career stakes performer No. 150...
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Unbridled's Song filly victorious in debut
Sunday, February 20, 2011
First-time starter In Step, a $1 million yearling auction purchase by Unbridled's Song, scored a stylish victory Feb. 20 at Gulfstream Park...
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Ravi's Song plays winning tune in Pelleteri Stakes
Saturday, February 12, 2011
Ravi's Song notched her second career stakes victory on Feb. 12 with a last-to-first rally in the $60,000 Pelleteri...
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Unbridled's Song colt goes gate to wire at Santa Anita
Saturday, February 12, 2011
Albergatti kicked off a very good day for his sire Unbridled's Song with a popular victory in a seven furlong maiden...
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Unbridled's Song millionaire keeps hitting high notes
Thursday, February 03, 2011
Multi-millionaire La Verita struck yet another high note, winning her sixth career stakes on February 2nd...
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Unbridled's Song 3yo filly stays perfect, earns 87 Beyer
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Oh Carole remained undefeated after scoring by 1 3/4-lengths in a 6 1/2-furlong allowance at Gulfstream Park...
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Breeders' Cup champ Unrivaled Belle nominated for 2010 Eclipse
Thursday, January 06, 2011
Unbridled's Song's daughter Unrivaled Belle was named one of the finalists for the 2010 Eclipse Award for the Older Filly and Mare division...
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Unbridled's Song filly takes Aqueduct's Sky Beauty stakes
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Muhaawara tallied her first stakes win in the $60,000 Sky Beauty S. Dec. 16 at Aqueduct, giving Unbridled's Song his 88th career stakes winner...
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Alcindor impresses, becomes Unbridled's Song's 12th 'Rising Star'
Monday, November 29, 2010
Alcindor, a 3-year-old colt by Unbridled's Song, remained undefeated with a 7 1/2-length romp in an allowance race at Hollywood Park, earning a 102 Beyer and TDN Rising Star status...
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$925K Unbridled's Song sales grad wins in debut
Saturday, November 13, 2010
Lauburu, a 2-year-old colt by Unbridled's Song, won his debut going seven furlongs at Aqueduct on Nov. 13. The gray or roan was consigned and sold by Taylor Made...
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Unrivaled Belle bests Blind Luck in BC Ladies' Classic
Friday, November 05, 2010
Unrivaled Belle capped off a great 2010 with her best performance of the year in the Breeders' Cup Ladies' Classic...
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Unrivaled Belle draw post 8 for Breeders' Cup Ladies' Classic
Tuesday, November 02, 2010
Unrivaled Belle will run in Friday's featured Breeders' Cup Ladies Classic (G1)...
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$1.15 million Unbridled's Song yearling wins debut at Oak Tree
Monday, October 25, 2010
Alcindor, a 3-year-old colt by Unbridled's Song, broke his maiden at first asking at Hollywood/Oak Tree on Oct. 23...
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No pictures today, just a narrative.
Today I am putting labels on a bunch of quilts. I haven't been too bad about doing this overall, but not great. I'm thinking about half of them have labels. There was probably a time when I knew the year in which I finished the quilts that I had made, but that time is past, so I'm going to have to dredge through blog posts and file folders to figure it out.
Being organized
I should probably post an update on being organized. I was going to make this blog an ongoing narrative of how I organize my time and space, but let's just call that a little fail. On the other hand my time and space are becoming more organized, I'm just not blogging about it.
I have been limiting, planning, and making better use of my crafting time. If I spend entire days doing crafting then other parts of my life suffer. So balance is the key, and planning is the key to balance.
There isn't much magic to it, just occasional restraint, being aware of when my crafting time is so I can focus on it, and prioritizing what I want to do with that time. Some days I make a written plan. Deciding to let go of my "leadership" roles in charity quilts has helped in this respect. I'm not quite sure how much credit I can give myself for making that decision, because it wasn't working out at all anymore.
Getting rid of the charity quilts has made a huge difference. Soon the materials for the Power of the Quilt Project will be stored at the UUAC church in Sherborn, which is where the project is carried out. All of the materials for the Rhododendron Quilt Guild are out of the house. This was a concerted effort of mine during the first two months of the year, and I'm really happy to say that chapter of my life is behind me. It was not something that I was capable of doing. The only thing I can give myself credit for is not second guessing my aversion to doing that job. Guild people were donating materials that were very difficult to sort and use, but the new coordinator doesn't seem to have a problem with that. I've given her three quilts, a giant roll of batting and a bin of kids' fabric that PQP doesn't need.
Other improvements I've made in my space are removing all yarn from the sewing room. Finishing quilts helps too. Unfortunately I'm now starting to accumulate finished quilts. I need to start getting rid of finished quilts somehow.

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Armcom Communications Ltd (hereinafter referred as Armcom) is a Limited Liability Partnership registered in England and Wales; full details can be found on the Company details page.
This is the Environmental Policy Statement of Armcom.
For the purposes of this document, the following terms apply:
- Senior management is defined as the Designated Members, officers and senior managers of the organisation.
- Environmental aspects are the elements of Armcom's activities, products and services that can interact with the environment.
- Environmental impacts are the changes to the environment that result from Armcom Communications Ltd's environmental aspects.
Policy Statement
Armcom acknowledges that the environment can potentially be impacted by any of its activities, products and services. This policy sets out how the organization will manage, monitor, measure and otherwise be accountable for its ongoing environmental performance.
In the implementation of this policy, Armcom will adhere to the requirements of relevant local, national and international law pertaining to the environmental aspects and impacts of the organization and ensure that this policy kept up to date in line with those requirements.
Armcom is committed to prevent pollution wherever possible and will ensure that as well as optimising new products, services and processes to facilitate this prevention, existing systems and processes are reviewed in order to identify areas for pollution prevention. For each product, service, system or process, this will be achieved by:
- eliminating the use of polluting materials or technologies;
- reducing the use of polluting materials or technologies;
- recycling or reusing materials within Armcom;
- transferring materials or waste outside of Armcom for recycling or reuse; and,
- where no other option is available, controlled disposal or incineration.
Armcom will integrate environmental management procedures, processes and planning with the general operations of the organization to maximise the potential reduction of the organizations environmental impacts. Furthermore it will ensure that where possible, products are designed and developed in such a way as to reduce the environmental impacts of their users.
Through the use of environmental performance evaluation procedures and key performance indicators, Armcom will seek continual improvement in its environmental performance. This will be achieved through the proper implementation of its environmental management system. The design, development and management of the environmental management system, related procedures and indicators is the responsibility of senior management.
Through the implementation of this policy, Armcom will set a leading example of good environmental management for its industry.
It is the responsibility of Senior management to ensure that this policy is implemented throughout the organization. and the responsibility of the Chief Executive to ensure that this policy is properly maintained and up to date.
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A "phobia" is a diagnosed medical disorder treated by trained professional by means of various cognitive or drug therapies.
A "phobia" is defined in the medical journals as an "irrational fear". Speaking out in regards to any ideology is neither "irrational" nor indicative of a fear.
"Islamophobia" is an oxymoron. Those who speak out do not do so because of an irrational fear of Islam, they speak out because they do NOT fear Islam!!!!!
A true "Islamophobe" would NOT speak out in regards to Islam because of their "irrational fear".


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Fatin holds a master's degree and an undergraduate degree in public administration from University of Brawijaya.
Fatin is a qualitative junior researcher, spesialising in public administration. Her main research interest include policy policy, governance, bureaucratic innovation, poverty and well-being
Prior to joining SMERU, Fatin worked as a Research Assistant on research project "Farmer's Perceptions on Adopting SRC Red Calliandra" in Tohoku University.
Fatin was awarded Bidikmisi scholarship program for her undergraduate study in 2014-2015. In 2014, She was awarded Best Graduate Student in Faculty of Administration from University of Brawijaya.


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As the 11th Annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference was taking place in Boston the first weekend in March, bringing together thought leaders and innovators from across all disciplines on and off the field in virtually every sport, several other meetings and conference were taking place around the world and one question pinged on the radar on all of them: "Who owns the data?"
In the sports landscape, the question is complicated in that it is applicable to multiple domains and constituencies. Generally any data being collected about an individual that can be tied to the individual is with consent; everyone has clicked on "terms and conditions" and "privacy policies" for their online transactions, and team sports athletes have collective bargaining agreements and contracts to protect them. It is the downstream use of the data where the alarm bells may start to ring.
At the Sloan Conference, as Nate Silver was interviewing Adam Silver, this very subject came up. Nate asked Adam if players would one day be using wearable technology in games, and the expected follow-up questions such medical privacy, CBA issues, what data makes it to the public domain (broadcast relevance), were addressed. The NBA Commissioner said, "yes, we will get to a point where players will use wearables in games… because of all of your follow-up questions, we determined that collective bargaining, with just a few owners and a few players and some lawyers around a table, was not conducive to coming up with the right framework. We said we both have an interest in doing this; let's empanel experts – physicians, technologists, etc. – let's come up with a standard so that it's not just any wearable…so that we have belief in the data. We are going to move there in conjunction with the Players' Association, with a protocol that protects everyone." It was clear that in the foreseeable future NBA players will be using wearable technology in games, and it was also clear this is too convoluted an issue to solve in the window of time the league and the union expected to come to terms on everything else on the table during the collective bargaining process.
On the same weekend, there was a technology conference in India at which an Internet of Things panel discussed in depth who owns the data generated by IoT devices; everything from the data generated by smart automobiles to smart household appliances to municipal technology (red light cameras, toll trackers, facial recognition software) was discussed. Regardless of who winds up owning it, knowing what to do with the data, how to mine it and use the insights to inform the next round of decisions is the real value, as Dan Rosenbaum noted from Mobile World Congress in Barcelona here.
A significant distinction relevant to wearable technology used across the sports industry is this: the device data versus the physiological data. It is reasonable to expect the technology partner to want to retain co-ownership of the device data, such as battery life, range, accuracy, and such to be able to maintain a robust product development process. However, the specific physiological data of the wearer is not necessarily relevant to the technology company's R&D process, and the wearer could expect some privacy. The collector of the physiological data, however, be it the athlete's team or equipment sponsor, may also be a right's holder to that data, and that is where ownership could get murky. For team sports, as Adam Silver alluded to above, any further dissemination would fall into some version of collective bargaining. For athletes in individual sports, or working with another party, that is not the case. The athlete is on his or her own to negotiate the narrowness of the audience to whom data can be distributed.
As for marketing data, the public has come a long way in being comfortable with standard practices associated with digital transactions. To a certain degree, individuals implicitly agree to surrender some of their privacy simply by engaging digitally (it says so in those Terms and Policies everyone's certainly taken the hours to read through); they've agreed to be "tracked" online, or to have their personal information recorded and perhaps even sold to a third party, or to have their "friends" lists identified. If, like above with the manufacture of the wearable device, the holder of this data is using it to optimize a user experience or improve a product, that seems to be a welcome part of the deal. In the sports industry, creating better fan experiences, optimizing communications and direct marketing materials, and special offers and contest alerts, are all examples of beneficial outcomes of strategic data analysis. However, where those alarms will go off is if the holder of the data is selling it to the highest bidder with no regard for the ultimate impact on the individual.
While these are just a few examples of the types of data collected on an average day in sports, they represent only the very tip of the data iceberg. To date, industry feedback has indicated that maintaining secure data warehousing, implementing robust privacy policies, and using the data for mutually beneficial outcomes are among the best practices an organization can implement. When working with third parties, whether hardware or software vendors or marketing partners, the obvious answer to "who owns the data?" and what each party is at liberty to do with is, read the contract.
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Hridaynath Mangeshkar was born on October 26, 1937.He is the only son of Dinanath Mangeshkar.Hridaynath Mangeshkar is a composer/singer from India known for his eclectic compositions and a well respected body of workHridaynath debuted his music career in 1955 with the Marathi film Akash Ganga. Since then he has composed for Marathi filmsDespite being very selective, Hridayanath Mangeshkar has composed many songs in Marathi and Hindi. He is known for his penchant for selecting beautiful poems for his compositions He is the younger brother of Indian music icons Lata Mangeshkar, Usha Mangeshkar, Mrs. Meena Khadikar and Asha Bhosle. He is married to Bharati Malvankar Mangeshkar, daughter of famous Marathi comedy actor Damuanna Malvankar. They have two sons Aadinath and Vaijnath, and a daughter Radha.Some of his most memorable Hindi film scores are 'Lekin', 'Maya Memsaab', 'Lal Salaam', Yash Chopra's 'Mashaal', Dhanwaan and Chaani.He produced an album featuring the ghazals of Mirza Ghalib, titled Ghalib and sung by Lata Mangeshkar.
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Sorry for the late post; our TV was out of commission last week. But I FIXED IT! Enough boasting.
Richard Castle is back, and I don't mean only from Canada. (The birthplace of Nathan Fillion, in case you didn't know.) No, he's back from his two-month mystery hiatus, back to solving crimes, and back to himself, now that he has a partial explanation of what happened. (Or does he... Personally, I think my theory still is in the running.)
As you might suspect from the previous paragraph, SPOILERS will be everywhere. Proceed at your own risk.
I thought "Montreal"was a pretty good episode. The mystery behind the murder seemed to get stranger and stranger as it went on. But I found the resolution to be plausible, as was the explanation as to why the victim could not go to the police.
(Oh, and true to Castle form, the victim's wife noted that "these last few weeks he had been having a hard time.")
Meanwhile, Castle was freelancing, trying to solve his own crime.
In fact, I thought the "split" near the end -- two minutes of Beckett and the boys on the case, two minutes of Castle in Canada -- was very effective.
And lots of humor. Some great lines:
Castle: "To find a needle in a haystack, do we not first need a haystack?"
Castle: "A tactical smooch is just one weapon in my arsenal."
Quick aside: That "tactical smooch" was out of character and, IMHO, one sign that my theory may be right.
Castle: "You picked up a man at grief counseling?"
Castle: "Tell me again how you got my phone number."
Crazy Guy: "I work for the phone company."
Castle: "Of course you do."
Castle: "Natalie went all Glenn Close on him."
Castle: "Need I remind you I'm a grown man. I don't need to ask your permission. That being said, please, please, please can I go?"
And the looks...
Captain Gate's complete surprise at the "tactical smooch."
And was it just me, or did the bank manager seem a little guilty when Castle asked, "Do I look familiar?"
Funny aside: When Beckett confronted the warehouse manager, "Mac," he bolted. In real life, would someone who (ostensibly) is not a career criminal do that? I mean, the cops know who you are, and probably where you live. Unless you have cash in the Cayman Islands, and a suitcase with your passport in your car, really, do you think you're going to get away?
Picky aside: I thought it strange that when castle returned to Montreal alone, and entered the (apparently) abandoned building where he recorded the goodbye messages, the faux Henry Jenkins just happened to be there waiting for him. That guy needs a life. Of his own, that is. I'm just sayin'.
With any luck, we'll get to "Clear & Present Danger" (which looks hilarious, BTW) tonight or tomorrow.
Let's hear your thoughts on "Montreal."


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Monday, February 09, 2009
New Member of the Family
In December I did something I never thought I would ever do. I exercised my 2nd Amendment rights and purchased a 'Household Protection Device'. Her name is Helga. She's German, and she's as accurate as she is sexy.
Growing up in California, hand guns and any types of weapons were always frowned upon. I never imagined I'd ever want or need to buy one, but after three deployments in countries where societies had broken down, evil in its worst form had taken over, and the only way people could protect themselves and their families was to own a weapon. I can't imagine life ever getting that bad here in the US, but the idea of not being able to protect my family against the most simple threats haunted me for a long time.
Of course, the top priority was to make sure I got the safest weapon I could find, and the easiest to use for my wife. More important was the need to keep it away from the kids. This little device is the greatest thing invented since sliced bread.
Once I was able to find exactly what I was looking for in terms of safety and security, I took the plunge. It was well worth the wait and the cost, and I'd recommend this model to anyone.
Thanks definitely go to my friend Tumbleweed and my brother in law 'Bam Bam' who gave a 2nd Amendment Virgin some excellent advice, and along the way helped me figure out the right way to go about this.
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Hey, Stranger! Seems lots of folks who used to be disinterested in the 'household protection device' have gotten interested and followed through lately. I think it's wise (I've always had one) and that one is pretty. Soon as it warms up a bit more, I've got to get out and pop a few just to keep my 'marksman' medal. :-)8:13 PM
Nice choice, dude!5:10 PM
How about a dog. There pretty good house protectors. I've been to the shooting range this year. Love it. I don't own a gun yet. Maybe one day. Jim's surprised I'm a pretty good shot. Not bad for your old Aunt Janet8:11 PM
Helga? Love the name!4:53 AM


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Did Texas Get To Work? An Update on 6 Key Challenges
Earlier this month, those of you on our email list heard from us more than usual, and you helped us get out the word about what Texas should do now that health reform's day in court is over. Thank you for all your phone calls, tweets, Facebook posts, letters to the editor, and more! Here's an update on where we stand with the . . .
6 ways Texas Should Get to Work Implementing the Affordable Care Act
Apply for available funds to reopen the Texas Consumer Health Assistance Program, which answers Texans' questions about their health care benefits and rights. When Brazoria County's Wesley Chafin faced the prospect of going without health insurance a few months ago, he knew it could mean a death sentence. Wesley is coping with end-stage renal disease, and his pre-existing condition meant many insurers would not cover him. Fortunately, he was able to call Texas CHAP — in the days before the state closed the consumer health assistance program last April. That's how he found out about the Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan as an Affordable Care Act option that could help him when he needed it most. Partisan politics should never come before helping Texans out. However, we regret to let you know that Texas missed the deadline to apply for millions of dollars in available funds--dollars that would help people like Wesley learn about their health care rights and options. We will continue to press the state about reopening Texas CHAP, so Texans can get answers to pressing health care questions when they need them.
Follow through on the demands of 1,600 Texans who petitioned for the state to finalize its review of several health care premium rate hikes of 10 percent or greater. As we let you know earlier this month, the Texas Department of Insurance has made headway in one regard: They took a first step toward greater accountability, by making public which insurers hiked their rates by 10 percent or more and by responding to our petition. Still, as rate reviews remain pending, many Texans remain in the dark as to whether there was cause cause for the increase. Texans shouldn't have to pay more because the state is dragging its feet on the review process, so we took to the national airwaves on National Public Radio and Kaiser Health News to make the case for action.
Create a process for getting input into what will be considered essential health benefits before a September 30 deadline. A group of 21 statewide and regional organizations mobilized in calling on Texas leaders to start a decision-making process on this subject. It may sound technical, but it's really going to decide whether the coverage newly available to Texans across the state will include some of the specific prescriptions, procedures, and treatments that many people are counting on. We'll keep you posted here on our blog about how Texas is going about defining essential health benefits here.
Spread the news that 1.5 million Texans will be getting rebates from their insurers because of health reform. All over the state, Texans are starting to receive rebate checks for hundreds of dollars. You helped spread the word, and we can't thank you enough! The tweets with pictures of your checks are flying, and our posters on this topic have generated over 100 likes and shares from our Facebook page alone. Let's keep it up: send us your pictures of you with your check, deposit slip, or letter about the money the insurance company had to give you, because they didn't spend enough of your premium on health care.
Take action to ensure Texans have a competitive health insurance marketplace that works for Texas. As you've probably heard by now, Texas Governor Rick Perry announced he does not intend for Texas to develop its own competitive health care marketplace where consumers can compare prices and select a good plan for them. But guess what? Our people will have a health insurance exchange, anyway. It will be a federal one to start in 2014. Texas, including our legislature, can pursue developing a state-run exchange in future years, and we will keep pushing for this, where there are benefits to Texans for our state to have more control.
Accept the health law's plans for Medicaid, including a solution that will put 1.3 million Texans on firmer financial footing and help more of them have the health care they need. While the governor also said the state won't allow families who would be newly eligible for Medicaid under the law to get it, our campaign and influential health industry leaders have pushed back hard on that notion. This is a decision that Texas will need to make as a state: our legislature and people included. Still, the health and wellbeing of so many Texans counts, and our governor needs to hear it. We urge you to call toll-free, and tell him so: (888) 530-9422.
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Baseball West Island hosts winter camp for kids 5 to 12
A winter baseball camp geared for Dorval and Pointe-Claire kids swings into action for another edition this weekend.
Baseball West Island's first session of its indoor winter camp opens Sunday and is aimed at kids ages 5 to 12 who may not have any playing experience in this traditional summer time sport.
"The four weeks is for kids who want to try baseball but in a less formal situation," said Jerrod Cannon, who heads Baseball West Island and coaches a team during the summer.
"Everyone is welcomed but we try to target kids who have never played before who would like to just come try it," he added. "We do the fundamentals, hitting, throwing and catching, some about the game. It's also about having fun. We do the fundamentals, but we try to do it in drills so we keep the kids moving, keep them exercising. We do a few minutes of theory and then work that into some fun drills or games."
Cannon noted kids, who are asked to bring a glove and running shoes, can show up for the first training day and that pre-registration is not required.
"We usually don't even charge if they want to try it just once before they commit to the four sessions," he added. "If a kid doesn't have a glove to try one week, we usually have a few extra gloves around to accommodate the odd child. The main thing for this first camp is to target kids who want to come try it. We want to give kids a chance."
For the indoor camp, baseballs with rubber inside are used for throwing and plastic wiffle balls are used for hitting drills, Cannon said.
A more intensive second session, open from novice to midget levels, will run six weeks and begin mid-March.
"The second session is more of a spring camp. It's really a marching ground to the outdoor season, " Cannon said.
About 40 kids are expected at the first session of the winter camp and 70 at the second session.
Baseball West Island has about 140 kids registered during the summer season, ranging from novice to midget levels.
"Our numbers have been growing slowly the last few years," Cannon remarked.
The first session of the camp, to be run by Baseball West Island's technical director Fred Majeur, will be held on four consecutive Sunday mornings at Lindsay Place High School's gym in Pointe-Claire, an hour for novice/atom starting at 9 a.m. and 90 minutes each for mosquito or peewee at 10 a.m. The cost for the first session is $25 for the two youngest age levels and $35 for the older ones.
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Jonathan Richman- Egyptian Reggae
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Jonathan Richman is a Boston-raised musician credited to be an early innovator of punk rock along with his band, The Modern Lovers. In 1977, he had a hit single (reaching no. 5 in the UK) with this instrumental track, Egyptian Reggae. The video above is not his, but a skit done along to the tune of unknown origins.


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|Beautiful cityscape from Wikipedia, as viewed from the Krakow Mound.
Beautiful Krakow: ancient, academic, artistic, cultural, catholic, charming!
From the main square, the Ryneck, the biggest square in Europe, a delight in summer when it's filled with restaurants and cafes, with it's unusual twin brother towers of the old St. Mary's basilica and St. Peter and Paul church to the Wawel Castle and the military-like Barbican, there are many things to see. The ancient university can be seen in the Collegium Magnus, and the old city is a UNESCO World Heritage site. World War II has left a fresh history in it's ghetto and graveyards across the river in formerly-Jewish Kazimierz.
Majestic poignant music, quaint little old streets, and a history of monarchies, duchys, small tribes, as well as Napoleon, Hitler and Stalin. Krakow is the cultural heart of Poland, with heritage as old as it's ancient city can have.
I feel sad that I have only visited Krakow in the middle of winter, when the Wistula River is frozen and the snow deep, but that means that I have a summer gem to return to, discovering a whole new city.
|Outside the Sukiennice -- the main square, the Ryneck.
|Looking up at Wavel Castle
|View of the Wistula River
|Photo courtesy of Nellie Bednarek
|Krakow Street. Photo courtesy of Nellie Bednarek
|Mulled wine stand. Photo courtesy of Nellie Bednarek
|Sukiennice market. Photo courtesy of Nellie Bednarek


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The rapper is teaming up with Samuel L Jackson
50 Cent is set to star in a new movie based on the war in Iraq.
The rapper, who recently made his film debut in the biopic 'Get Rich Or Die Tryin', will appear alongside the likes of Samuel L Jackson, Jessica Bell and Christina Ricci in 'Home Of The Brave', according to Variety magazine.
The film tells the story of three soldiers who struggle to adjust to normal life when they return home from the war.
Shooting for the movie begins next month in Morroco before moving on to Washington.


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Just 12 days remain in the presidential race — and one of the biggest battleground states is seemingly up for grabs.
Florida, the largest prize among the swing states, now sees Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton leading by less than 2 points, shifting it from a state that leaned in her favor to one that is essentially a toss-up.
But even with Florida looking as if it could be either Clinton's or Donald Trump's to secure, the latest RealClearPolitics average of several polls suggests the former secretary of state maintains a substantial lead in the Electoral College. She would have enough votes to secure the presidency even if she only maintained every state where she is likely or a safe bet to win. That means she could lose each of the three toss-up states along with North Carolina and Nevada, which only lean in her favor, and still come out on top.
Using polling data from RealClearPolitics and The Washington Post/Survey Monkey, Business Insider found that Clinton, as of this week, would lead Trump 272 to 181 electoral votes in states that were either safe or likely bets to go in favor of either major party's nominee. That alone would give Clinton more than the 270 electoral votes needed to clinch the presidency.
It's a slight difference from last week's projection, which showed Clinton with a 278-to-181 edge in the same categories.
Business Insider judged that a safe state was one in which a candidate led by at least 8 percentage points, while a likely state was anywhere in which the nominee held a 4- to 8-point lead.
When including states leaning toward a candidate by 2 to 4 points, Clinton held a 293-to-187 advantage over Trump. Last week, Clinton was up 322 to 187 when including this category.
Only four states shifted from last week. Virginia moved from "safe" for Clinton to "likely," Nevada moved from "likely" for Clinton to "leaning" in favor of her, Florida moved from "lean" to "toss-up," and South Dakota moved from "safe" for Trump to "likely" in favor of the Manhattan billionaire.
The toss-up states — where a major-party nominee held a lead of less than 2 points — consist of 58 electoral votes. Last week, the two states that were too close to call were Ohio and Arizona. This week, Florida joined the pack.


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Irena Knezevic Receives 3Arts Award
Northwestern visiting professor earns visual arts diversity award
EVANSTON, Ill. --- Northwestern Artist-in-Residence Irena Knezevic received a 2013 award for visual arts from 3Arts, a nonprofit organization that advocates for Chicago artists.
Every year, the organization awards 10 artists working in the fields of dance, music, theatre, visual arts and the teaching arts with $15,000 each. 3Arts works to sustain and promote Chicago's women artists, artists of color and artists with disabilities. Award recipients are eligible to take advantage of a network of offerings designed to help build momentum in their practice.
"3Arts believes in the value of culture and enacts that belief with acts of direct support," Knezevic said. "I am proud to be a part of that."
A Serbian artist, Knezevic works in visual art formats, music and architecture. She has performed and exhibited her work throughout the country, including at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and threewalls.She has upcoming exhibits in New York and Athens, Greece.


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IoT Alliance Australia (IoTAA) is the peak industry body representing the Internet of Things (IoT) in Australia. Over 450 participating organisations and 850 individual participants are working to accelerate the adoption of IoT across the Australian economy and society.
We see a thriving future for Australia and the world by connecting data, devices, people, processes and things to the Internet. It helps people make better and more informed decisions to get the best possible outcomes and ultimately helps boost Australia's future success, productivity, competitiveness, jobs, and the economy.
Now is the time for industry, government, citizens, and academia to seize the opportunities for economic growth and social benefit afforded by the Internet of Things.
IoT Alliance Australia Workstreams – where it happens
Our work-program spans 12 workstreams which focus on industry vertical sectors and key IoT enablers. They are:
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Ofi-Smart Automatic Water Analyzer by Frédéric Clermont
Frédéric Clermont Portrays The Ofi Smart Automatic Water Analyzer
Frédéric Clermont, the creator of the highlighted design Smart automatic water analyzer:Ofi by Frédéric Clermont illustrates, With Ofi, for "Intelligent Floating Object", remote management of the pool becomes a breeze! This complete system allows continuous monitoring of the water parameters, as well as being automatically alerted as soon as an anomaly is detected and to have access to advice on the maintenance actions to be carried out. For maximum comfort, the application for Smartphone allows to consult the whole data at any moment. Ofi is equipped with probes that constantly measure several parameters: pH, salt... And its 3 colors leds allow the owner to know the state of his swimming pool at a glance..
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Egypt is censored
The Chinese version of Twitter as banned the word Egypt in their searches. It´s the sites sina.com and sohu.com that has the block, a search for Egypt gives the message
According to the laws in force, the results of your search cannot be given
The official media in China does however mention the riots in Egypt against the regime of President Mobarak


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Nothing puts an outfit together than a gorgeous bag. It's one of those things that you can't leave the house without. It holds all of your very important belongings, that helps you get trough the day. I can finally say I found my new favourite bag. (Out of the million that I have, I'm just kidding lol) A bag is such a statement to your outfit. Perfect at adding a little colour to your wardrobe for these Winter daze.
Hey guys, Say hello to JULIA after giving her a tour around my city and I'll like to tell you more about her. This bag is from Pauls Boutique, They are London based fashion brand. That designs accessories like bags and purses. Julia is their Bloggers bag, the bag is also a limited edition item. Julia is in the colour burgundy and also black. This is one of the greatest gift I've gotten so far.
I Paired this bag with a dress from Loavies which I got in their online sale, which you should check out ASAP. I really love this dress I usually don't wear stripes but this dress changed my mind. The choker I also got from Loavies a while back in the summer. The leather jacket I am wearing is from Forever 21, with one of my favourite ankle boots at the moment which is also from Forever 21.
I hope you like my outfit of the day, let me know what you think in the comments! <3 p="">3>
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Dress: Loavies
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Hi, my name is Alissa. I am an aspiring designer, in the fields of event planning/styling as well as interior design.
My Interior design style is relaxed and simple, I love using neutral colours as a basis and natural elements such as wood and stone. I would have to say I have a very eclectic style, as I like design elements from both old and new, I love finding a new life for old furniture and objects. Most of all, I love when a home feels warm and inviting, with splashes of colour mixed in for good measure. I believe these are what make a home personal, more you.
I love, love, love organising and planning, decorating and cooking and most of all hosting parties and events. I like the freedom that comes with styling an event, it can be as casual and simple as you like or as crazy and colourful as you dream. These are the days that hold fast in your memories and I believe in making every celebration no matter how big or small, a day not to forget.
As you may gather from my little blog, I love all things 'Alice in Wonderland', the story and imagery have inspired me to pursue my day dreams.
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Ahead of its February 26th release, the official trailer for Netflix's Fuller House has arrived.
From the looks of it, the revival series will continue the shenanigans of the original sitcom with almost-all of the original cast present and accounted for. Check it out below:
Fuller House will be available on Netflix on February 26th 2016.


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Venus in Capricorn
Those of us seeking peace and love can find the whole ordeal rather exasperating these days. The prevailing power of attraction has a series of trials and tribulations for us that are impossibly tough and rather unromantic, actually. Venus in Capricorn really seeks to assess our level of maturity in all matters inter-relational. So for most of us there's a little growing up to do if we want to get along and get some loving from others.
Also be careful of the Mars opposing that whacko Uranus next few days. More on that later, but stay cool and be the bigger person in any instance where peace needs making. You will definitely earn.
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The issue of child support is taken very seriously in the family court system. If a parent does not pay ordered support in Virginia, there are legal consequences. There are also legal consequences for anyone who fraudulently collects any kind of child support.
A woman is now facing up to 20 years in prison and very high fines for a scam she pleaded guilty to pulling on a man. The woman collected over $100,000 in child support from a man she said fathered her child. The man agreed to pay the woman $1,000 a month rather than let the woman pursue support through the family law court system. The problem with the situation is that the woman never gave birth to any child, much less a child fathered by the man she received support from for six years.
The couple had met online and had personal encounters some time later. The woman later contacted the man and said she was pregnant. She had produced a picture of a false birth certificate and also pictures of a baby who later turned out to be a relative's baby. The man feared court-ordered support would be the bulk of his income, so he therefore had agreed to pay a monthly amount set by the woman.
Fear of how much a child support order may be is not an uncommon reaction to realizing support must be paid for a child. However, the Virginia court system takes income into consideration and works to establish an amount that is payable by a parent and will also work to ensure paternity. If a parent feels that an order for child support is too much of a financial strain, that parent may be able to pursue a modification. In this case, agreeing to a payment outside of what a court may have ordered ended in fraud and cost a man thousands over the course of several years, reinforcing the recommendation that comprehensive legal advice and guidance may be needed when dealing with any child support or family law matter.
Source: daily-journal.com, " Prosecutors: Woman faked pregnancy, collected $100,000 in child support", Rachel Warmke, Dec. 19, 2014


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'Shove it': A portrait of a gay-marriage Republican in limbo
BALLSTON SPA—The next paragraph in the gay rights narrative will be written here, in a windowless vault filled with old paper and softly quibbling lawyers, next week.
State Senator Roy McDonald, a Republican who voted for New York's landmark same-sex marriage law last year, needs to make up 106 votes as the lawyers here shift through Saratoga County's share of roughly 1,000 absentee ballots that will determine whether he has survived a primary challenge from Kathy Marchione, the county's clerk.
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McDonald's primary was one of three localized referendums on New York's 2011 same-sex marriage law, two of which are too close to call.
Four Republicans—McDonald, Jim Alesi of Rochester, Mark Grisanti of Buffalo and Steve Saland of Poughkeepsie—broke party ranks, with strong encouragement from Andrew Cuomo, Michael Bloomberg and gay-rights advocacy groups, to ensure the bill's passage.
Alesi retired and Grisanti won. But McDonald and Saland are now in a sort of post-primary limbo. They're both stalwart incumbents with high name recognition, and their campaigns were fueled by war chests that, on the scale of elections in these upstate communities, should have been big enough to make them invincible.
So what the hell went wrong?
Disclosure reports show McDonald's campaign has so-far spent $647,404.60—a Bloombergian outlay of $96.73 per vote—and that doesn't account for a final blitz of mail and television advertising, or for spending by allied organizations like Paul Singer's New York Unity PAC.
The 30-second explanation you'll get from any political scientist for his non-win over challenger Kathy Marchione goes as follows: It's a Republican primary, voter turnout is notoriously low and normally comes from the most motivated—read: extreme—portion of the party electorate. It's hard to get people excited about staying the course, and the portion of the population that pushes approval ratings for gay marriage near 60 percent doesn't overlap much, if at all, with the upstate G.O.P. base.
But there are other things, particular to this race. There's what McDonald referred to as his "Irish temper," and how his unique mixture of stubbornness and classism severely hurt him in this primary, even if it ends up being key to his chances in a general election, if it comes to that.
Flash back to last year. Excitement over same-sex marriage began to crescendo at the Capitol after Alesi declared publicly that he would join 29 of the Senate's 30 Democrats in supporting the bill. He was the first Republican in office ever to say so openly, and with the force of freshman Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his aides, the marriage bill was closer to reality than it had been since a failed vote in 2009.
McDonald, a blunt talker with a freighted gait who wears grandfatherly suits and is fond of noting his working-class upbringing, was on several short lists of Republicans who might vote yes. He was swarmed by journalists looking for an update.
"You get to the point where you evolve in your life where everything isn't black and white, good and bad, and you try to do the right thing," he famously said. "You might not like that. You might be very cynical about that. Well, fuck it, I don't care what you think. I'm trying to do the right thing. I'm tired of Republican-Democrat politics. They can take the job and shove it. I come from a blue-collar background. I'm trying to do the right thing, and that's where I'm going with this."
There's also a softer explanation for McDonald's vote. It's a well-known fact to McDonald's constituents that the 64-year-old has two autistic grandchildren, and watching them grow up has given him a new perspective on people, and a "to each his own" sensibility. He has said he regretted his 2009 vote against same-sex marriage—when it was clear the bill would fail and every Republican would go along for the ride.
There was plenty of praise for McDonald in the run-up to the law's eventual passage later that month. But the reception he got for his wayward thinking among Republican committee people was cooler. McDonald had the backing of party leaders, but didn't make a full circuit of G.O.P. committees to explain himself.
He did rake in contributions from Michael Bloomberg, Paul Singer, Daniel Loeb and other moderate-to-conservative champions of gay rights. That only made things worse.
"The biggest reason we got behind Kathy wasn't necessarily how he voted [on same-sex marriage], was why he voted, and raised all that money from downstate interests," said Ben Potiker, head of the Upstate Conservative Coalition and a resident of Halfmoon, a suburb that constitutes Marchione's base. "We felt he wasn't representing the interests of people in my districts."
McDonald ran a campaign on money and lingering support from the top. He sent mailers and aired advertisements attacking Marchione, a county clerk, as a government hack who was set to collect a salary and pension and loved free health care.
She, in turn, built up a grassroots network working with people like Potiker. Any elective figure will naturally engender resentments over time, and for McDonald they all resurfaced during his hour of need, political people around the district told me. Saratoga County apparatchiks felt snubbed when McDonald refused to sponsor a bill that would increase a sales tax to shore up the operating finances of the county bureaucracy and Rensselaer County insiders were puzzled that McDonald kept a Democratic city councilman on his staff payroll.
The frustrated McDonald re-emerged during the only primary debate, held in Troy two days before the primary. It was a public demonstration of an anemic campaign: Marchione packed the hall with supporters who lapped up her one-liners. When the polls closed, McDonald was more than 100 votes down. Appearing in court Tuesday, his attorney said the recount would be a "mundane and tedious" process.
I couldn't help but have flashbacks to Assemblyman James Tedisco's 2009 congressional bid against Democratic newcomer Scott Murphy, which he lost after a recount involving many of the same lawyers. (Tedisco's election night "celebration" was in the same hotel room as McDonald's, and both candidates had to try to muster the same brave optimism.)
But unlike Tedisco, McDonald can still have a second act even if he loses the G.O.P. line to Marchione. He's the candidate of the Independence Party, and if he chose to, could campaign through the November general election on its line alone.
The question is who would come with him. A source suggested Senate Republicans would back the party's nominee, abandoning their colleague for Marchione.
(Publicly, they say such talk is premature. "I'm not going to speculate on it," Sen. Tom Libous, the head of the Senate Republican Conference Committee, told me Tuesday.)
Labor unions have been a reliable ally to McDonald in previous races—he often noted that he's the son of a mill worker, and knows that unionized public employees are a crucial constituent bloc. But those unions are now angry that McDonald fell in line with other Republicans (and Andrew Cuomo) voting to reduce pension benefits for new public employers.
Perhaps McDonald would be the perfect investment opportunity for Cuomo's political capital. The governor owes McDonald a solid, for sure. Cuomo could get behind a Republican who was running as an independent, letting him claim post-partisan enlightenment while really helping Republicans keep control of the State Senate—something he's signaled, and demonstrated, he's perfectly comfortable with.
(Cuomo hasn't indicated that he'd actively help McDonald, but he expressed sympathy yesterday for McDonald and Saland, and said he hopes they win their recounts.)
The money part of the equation would get complicated, in part because the Democratic candidate, Robin Andrews, is an out lesbian who could attract her own gay-advocacy money. In a presidential election year when many voters go straight down the party line, she might be seen as a better bet to hold off an anti-gay-rights Republican nominee than a third-party challenger.
"Everybody's still holding their powder until they can see if it's a two-way race, a three-way race," said Scott Kingsley, a local Republican leader who backed McDonald.
That includes McDonald, apparently. He's exploring his options and still making public appearances, but he hasn't said one way or another whether he'll push on if he loses the primary recount.
It could be a chance for a graceful exit from politics for a man increasingly open in yearning for his golden years.
On the other hand, his defeat would change the gay-rights narrative: McDonald would become the first New York legislator to have lost an election based on a vote for same-sex marriage.
"They got a lesson," said the Rev. Jason McGuire, who opposes same-sex marriage. "This is deep-blue New York, and look what happened. It shows the poor state of the Republican Party, because it's sold out to liberal interests at the sense of the base."
But most importantly, "they"—the ones who could take McDonald's job and shove it—would have won. McDonald frustrated them once. He may not be able to resist the temptation to do it again.
Jimmy Vielkind is a political reporter for the Albany Times Union and the principal contributor to its Capitol Confidential blog.


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2017 World Snooker Championship (Day 2) - Rocket lands in Last 16 round
The second day of this year's Betfred World Snooker Championship meant that two more players made their way into the Last 16 round: Ronnie O'Sullivan and Kyren Wilson.
The five-time world champion, Ronnie O'Sullivan held an overnight slight advantage of 5-4 over his opponent, with a last session that proved to be quite tense even though Gary Wilson is a Crucible debutante.
Although "The Rocket" took the first frame of the session, Gary fought back with a 100 break which got as a reply a perfect set of breaks (124, 74 and 83) that eased Ron's way at 9-5. With one more frame needed for the win, no-one would have dared to try and come back into the match, but Wilson did, winning the next two frames with a top break of 103.
Still, Ronnie managed to close with a 90 break to book his place in the next round, in the end punching the air in a pretty emotional way.
Emotions ran wild even after the match finished, as Ronnie had a pretty intense press conference where he stated his case of being "bullied" by World Snooker in the last months, this causing those short-answers that he gave to the press, but also a lot of focus problems in the matches he was involved.
Now, O'Sullivan's words are all over the internet and you can watch his press conference in full here, but what I really want to point out is this:
Ronnie said: "Listen, I play snooker, I love to play snooker. I am all about having fun, I've had the best year of my life and that's because I've been doing my exhibitions, I've been doing my American show, I've done a book, I've worked with EuroSport ... I've never been happier.
Snooker is tough, but I do it because I love it and I feel it gives me something that nothing else give me. But I need to be on perfect condition and my brain needs to be 100 per cent focused because I play with my heart, I can't play any other way.
So, I need to be in good position and in a good frame of mind and I owe it to my fans and I owe it to snooker to just go there and do a job. And that's the most important thing."
Also, joining Ronnie in the Last 16 round is the 2015 Shanghai Masters champion, Kyren Wilson who beat David Grace 10-6.
The match restarted with Kyren in the leading chair at 5-4 up, an advantage that he extended at 7-5 after some really scrappy two frames. Grace tried his luck with a ton (104), but Wilson responded quickly with a 93 and made his way into the following two frames to book his place in the next round.
A very interesting encounter was the one between Shaun Murphy and the 17-year-old Chinese player, Yan Bingtao, "The Magician" being put in quite a difficult position, but still managing to close the first session at 6-3 up.
Bingtao made the most of the second frame by striking his first century break at the Crucible (a beautiful 109), but Murphy was sure to reach the mid-session interval at 3-1 up thanks to runs of 54 and 112.
The bar was raised with another century break from Murphy (a118 this time) to extend his lead, but Bingtao was sure to make some waves with a top break of 67 to win two consecutive frames.
However, "The Magician" worked his magic and managed to use just a top break of 80 to cash the remaining frames and get the upper hand in Monday's conclusion of the match.
Still, the biggest shock of the day was Luca Brecel demolition of Marco Fu's hopes, as the Belgian player holds a 7-2 overnight advantage over him.
Brecel used breaks of 55, 109 and 94 to practically fly at 5-0 up, Fu barely managing to win his first frame of the match before being blown away with runs of 62 and 76.
The Hong Kong player won one more frame before the end of the session, but must climb a real mountain if he wants to even stand the slightest chance of a comeback.
In other matches, Mark Allen is currently leading Jimmy Robertson 5-4, as does Stuart Bingham over Peter Ebdon.
Monday's match schedule:
Ding Junhui v Zhou Yuelong
Stuart Bingham 5-4 Peter Ebdon
Shaun Murphy 6-3 Yan Bingtao
John Higgins v Martin Gould
Marco Fu 2-7 Luca Brecel
Mark Allen 5-4 Jimmy Robertson
*all hours are UK time
Photos credit: World Snooker