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If John Sadler doesnt have a good day Saturday, it wont be for a lack of trying.Sadler and his primary patron, Hronis Racing, are taking swings in three Grade 1 events on the Santa Anita Park program with varying degrees of promise, ranging from wishful thinking to historically portentous, at least in terms of what could happen next.Hard Aces, a 6-year-old son of Hard Spun, won the Cougar II Handicap at Del Mar as if he might be in for a piece of the subsequent Pacific Classic -- or at least whatever was left after California Chrome and Beholder got through with it. He was 38-1 on the tote board, so expectations were pitched accordingly, and things were going along well enough for the first five of the 10 furlongs, with Hard Aces keeping both favorites in his sights.Then came a rapid retreat, as the Sadler runner wandered under the wire at a mild gallop, far behind California Chrome. The only horse he beat, Win the Space, had been pulled up halfway down the stretch.This is hardly the way you want your horse to come into a race like the $300,000 Awesome Again Stakes, which is headed again by California Chrome.He kind of stumbled at one point and got a nasty cut on his leg, Sadler said. Thats why the jockey jumped off him right after the finish. We put a couple stitches in it, and hes been fine ever since. Hes a tough, old horse.No kidding. Hard Aces has run 34 times, won seven races, and is 10 bucks shy of becoming a millionaire. Seven of his 15 starts since joining Sadler and the Hronis stable have come in Grade 1 events, including a victory in the 2015 Gold Cup at Santa Anita and a second in the 2016 Santa Anita Handicap.What Im trying to do is get him to the Marathon, Sadler said, referring to the $200,000 Marathon Stakes on the Nov. 4 Breeders Cup undercard. So, Im using a Grade 1 race at a mile and one-eighth to prep him for a Grade 2 at a mile and three-quarters, which I guess is a little unusual.Half an hour after the Awesome Again, Sadler and the Hronis brothers -- Kosta and Pete -- will be in the mix for the $300,000 Rodeo Drive Stakes at 1-1/4 miles on firm turf. With 14 entered, no one scared anyone away.Weve entered two, but I might scratch Nancy From Nairobi and maybe find someplace to run her back East, Sadler said.Elektrum is the barns other shooter, fresh off a close third in the John C. Mabee Stakes at Del Mar. She was second in the 2015 Rodeo Drive.Shes finally getting the distance she likes, Sadler said. When Santa Anita eliminated the mile-and-a-quarter Santa Barbara, that left only shorter races, and shes a mare who can handle the distance.Elektrum comes by it honestly. Her sire, High Chaparral, was a two-time winner of the Breeders Cup Turf -- including his dead heat with Johar at Santa Anita in 2003 -- and her maternal grandsire is Inchinoor, the sire of San Juan Capistrano winner On the Acorn.Sadler will take what he can get in the Awesome Again and the Rodeo Drive. Its the $300,000 Zenyatta he can taste, and he has the champion Stellar Wind wound up and ready to fire again against Beholder.When last seen in the afternoon, Stellar Wind was beating Beholder on the square in the Clement L. Hirsch Stakes at Del Mar. The shock was real. At 1-10 odds, Beholder seemed like a mortal lock. Mortal, yes. Lock, no. Stellar Wind laid on her older rival from the start and dug in hard at the end to win by half a length.She was tired after that, but she had a right to be, Sadler said not long after the race.Like every other trainer with a decent mare based out West, Sadler has been living in Beholders world for years.You cant let Beholder just cruise around and save energy, Sadler said. I know that wont work, so I would imagine this race will look fairly similar to the one at Del Mar.There is a lot riding on the Zenyatta. Stellar Wind will try to prove the Hirsch was no fluke, while Beholder needs to shake loose from the only two-race losing streak of her 24-race career, after the Hirsch and her second to California Chrome in the Pacific Classic. The Zenyatta figures to set the stage for the Breeders Cup Distaff five weeks later and a final championship showdown.Sadler gave Stellar Wind an extra week of recovery after the Hirsch, then went back to training with a steady beat of weekly works, most recently three-quarters in 1:12 and change.They might have underestimated us a little bit last time, Sadler said. Do you think we can get them to do that again? Probably not. But we know that both mares like Santa Anita a lot.This is true. The 6-year-old Beholder has run 14 times at Santa Anita and won 13, losing only the 2013 Santa Ynez Stakes when second to Renees Titan. The 4-year-old Stellar Wind has won three of four Santa Anita starts, losing only the Vanity last June, to Beholder.Its another heavyweight bout, Sadler said. Im excited. Where can one buy good quality but cheap jerseys . The news was first reported on Gonzalezs Twitter account and confirmed by the Rockies. 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As the first Sunday of the NFL season wound down, the financial fate for several Las Vegas sportsbooks sat squarely in the hands of a longtime nemesis: the New England Patriots.To avoid a losing day, the books needed the underdog, Tom Brady-less Patriots to cover the spread on the road against the Arizona Cardinals. An outright win would be an added bonus.Over the course of the week, as New England ruled out tight end Rob Gronkowski and other key players, the point spread grew from Arizona -5.5 to as high as -9.5 as kickoff approached Sunday night.The action was lopsided, and on the Cardinals. At MGMs sportsbooks, four times as much money was bet on Arizona as on New England. For every parlay card that included the Patriots, there were seven that had the Cardinals.At William Hill, nearly 80 percent of the money wagered on the game was on Arizona, and sportsbook operator CG Technology was staring at six figures worth of parlay and teaser liability on the Cardinals.New England, of course, won 23-21 on a go-ahead field goal by Stephen Gostkowski with 3:44 to play.Rooting for the Patriots was an odd feeling for some longtime bookmakers, who have become accustomed to seeing the betting public flock to New England.I cant remember needing the Patriots on a night game, Westgate SuperBook vice president Jay Kornegay told ESPN. This might be the last time we need New England the rest of the year.Since upsetting the St. Louis Rams as 14-point underdogs in Super Bowl XXXVI, the Patriots have covered the spread in 57.4 percent of their games, the best record against the number in the NFL during that time span.The Patriots were one of six underdogs to cover the spread Sunday, including the Miami Dolphins and Jacksonville Jaguars, who produced two of the books largest wins of the afternoon games.The Dolphins covered as 10.5-point underdogs in a 12-10 loss at Seattle, and the Jaguars covered the majority of bets as consensus 3.5-point home underdogs in a 27-23 loss to the Green Bay Packers.The Jaguars were targeted by respected bettors at several sportsbooks, causing the line to drop from Green Bay -5 to -3.5 on game day, even though the public had overwhelmingly sided with the Packers.We were taking big late money on the Jaguars, mid-five-figure bets, said Jay Rood, vice president of MGM race and sports. Fortunately, a lot of big money pushed at four.Rood also reported taking early sharp action on the underdog Detroit Lions, who knocked off the Indianapolis Colts 39-35 on the road, and on the Washington Redskins in the Monday night game against the Pittsburgh Steelers.The sharps made a big move on the Redskins, early before [Sundays] kickoffs, Rood said Sunday night. We took a few limit plays [on Washington] from the sharps. They were driving that number down.The Steelers were bet down from 3- to 2.5-point favorites over Washington at most books by Monday morning.The Houston Texans were responsible for the biggest loss for Caesars Palace and MGMs books, and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers upending the Atlanta Falcons was the biggest loss for Station Casinos sportsbooks.Overall, thanks to the Patriots, the opening Sunday of the NFL season went to the books.Well make enough money to pay for the lights, the comp drinks and a little bit of salary, Rood joked.The wild Central Michigan-Oklahoma State endingThe largest money-line bet William Hill took on Oklahoma State to beat Central Michigan straight-up was $6,000 at -1,200 odds.ddddddddddddIf Central Michigan wouldnt have erroneously been granted an untimed down and if the underdog Chippewas hadnt successfully used that play to throw a Hail Mary, hook-and-lateral for the winning touchdown with no time remaining, the bettor would have won $500.Instead, he lost $6,000 on an improbable ending that had customers calling the sportsbooks asking what happens now. We had so many people calling the book asking if it was the right decision; were they going to overturn it, Westgate SuperBook assistant manager Ed Salmons said. We had a lot of money-line parlays that started the day with Oklahoma State.Central Michigan was granted the untimed down after Oklahoma State was called for intentional grounding while attempting to kill the final four seconds on the clock by lobbing a deep, high pass on fourth down. Because there was not a receiver in the area of the pass, officials made the intentional grounding call and mistakenly awarded the Chippewas an untimed down. Games are not allowed to be extended if the foul is by the team in possession and the statement of the penalty includes loss of down.The Big 12 has a rule prohibiting a result being overturned, and most sportsbook house rules also do not recognize overturned results.Some bettors did benefit from the ruling. CG Technology sportsbook operator Jason Simbal said his shop took two $500 money-line bets on Central Michigan at +850, each producing $4,250 net wins. William Hill had six money-line tickets on the Chippewas, the largest a $100 at +750.Heisman updateA 100-1 long shot to start the season, Louisville quarterback Lamar Jackson is now 8-1 to win the Heisman Trophy at the Westgate SuperBook.The sophomore has vaulted up the board to become a top-five Heisman favorite after accounting for 13 touchdowns in his first two games. He set an ACC record with 610 yards of offense in the Cardinals 62-28 blowout win over Syracuse on Friday.The Westgate SuperBook took more than dozen bets on Jackson, ranging from $5 to $200, at 100-1. If they win this week, hell probably be the favorite, unless [Stanford running back Christian] McCaffrey has some monster game, Salmons said.?Odds & ends? 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