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Pace Cap'n
04-24-2003, 07:18 AM
Whale sighting.....

http://www.bismarcktribune.com/articles/2003/04/24/news/local/nws03.txt
Kentucky Bred
04-24-2003, 07:46 AM
BTW Pace Cap'n...where's North Dakota?

Kentucky Bred
Pace Cap'n
04-24-2003, 08:06 AM
Well, let's see...has cetaceous life forms...must be on or near a major body of water......
kenwoodall
04-24-2003, 03:01 PM
Go to Idaho, bet on a horse at Emmett with a $300.00 purse, then turn right!
Richest person i've heard of with a ranch nearby is Ted Turner, who just sold his AOL stocks and is probably spending Hanoi Jane Fonda's alimony!
superfecta
04-24-2003, 08:53 PM
the story says 160 million was bet by this one person,a total of 170 million was bet thru the whole network last year?Sounds like a special interest group of one to me.Not really fair IMO.Say Bill Gates wants to win the Kentucky Derby,would it be fair of him to buy all the highest horseflesh next year and enter the Derby with ten or fifteen horses?Not possible?Well if he can get Churchill Downs to change the rules for him,its possible.Thats what this guy has evidently done,got the rules changed for him.Good thing they stopped him from having direct feed into the pools like last year,but if he gets this rule change,whats to stop him from getting that rule changed since he has enough pull to get this done?