A Look Back at the History of Horse Racing – Sport – EzineMark

May 9, 2013 By Leave a Comment

No matter which major city from around the world it is that you will visit, you are bound to witness a horse racing event – Australia, Mauritius, New Zealand, USA, UK, Europe, the Middle Eastern countries, and a few Asian countries. This equestrian sport has been around for centuries, but how exactly did it start out?

Before delving deeper into that, let us first check on the most popular forms of this sport. One of the most typical sights that you will see in affluent communities is Thoroughbred racing. In Australia, Standardbred horses racing is more popular – just like in New Zealand. Quarter horses racing; and purebred Arabian horses racing or endurance racing are other forms of the sport.

Important Breakthroughs in the History

After learning about some of the basic facts about it, let us now check on its history as a sport. Take a look at the following important specific dates, periods and breakthroughs in this sport:

– 4500 BCE
As mentioned earlier, horses racing as a sport has existed for centuries now. It actually started during this period when horses first became domesticated animals. Back then, it was Central Asian tribesmen who trained the animals – and this was the signal for horses racing to become a sport of the privileged and leisured.

– 680 BCE
According to the roster of ancient Olympics during this period, two-horse and four-horses racing was added to the gaming events.

– 753 BCE
One of the best ways to trace back the history of a centuries-old sport like this is to consult the ancient books – and it was in the story of Romulus’ founding of Rome during this period that the mythical city-founded organized a series of horse race events. The goal was to distract Sabine men abducted the women.

– 12th Century
This is the time that the horse race that we know of today came to be. During the 12th century, a wave of battle-weary English men returned from the Crusades with Arabian horses. The endurance of these animals over the English ones is incomparable – so they were used in this sport.

– 1702-1714
Under the rule of Queen Anne, the first modern races where spectators bid on their bets started. It was in 1759 that the Jockey Club was formed.

– 1894
Just like the English’ British Jockey Club, the American Jockey Club was established in this year to set up rules for breeding racing horses.

– 1930s-1970s
In the United States, the sport of horses racing has had its ups and downs – but it was during these decades when the popularity of champion horses like Seabiscuit revived the life of the sport.

Today, horse race has become almost a national tradition – especially in the state of Louisiana. Whether you’re a true-blue horse race fan, if you’re in it to win money or if you’re simply interested with the different facets of the sport, nothing beats the feeling of knowing that you know exactly how the sport came about so that you would appreciate its origins even more.

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Selecting Proper Horses – Tip to win horse racing – Horse – EzineMark

May 7, 2013 By Leave a Comment

Choosing the right horse posssibly should be the first priority in horse racing. If one does not give it appropriate attention, the outcome can result in losing the race. There are various methods for selecting horses. Some of them are detailed below:

 

This first method of selecting horses discussed here is extremely easy to use and will not take much of your time to follow. Using this method you can eliminate all races that are of a highly competitive in nature and choose only those races that has a good current form and has the capacity to replicate it. This will help you achieve an average of 3-4 bets each week and at the same time you can expect 50-60% winners at all odds. Now, how will you go about it? Here is how:

 

You can make use of any newspaper like “Daily Mirror” or the “Daily Express” for this, as all the pertinent information attached to this will be made obtainable to you by these newpapers. Initially select all non-handicap races with fields up to and encompassing of 12 declared runners. Amateur, Apprentice and Ladies races are to be eliminated in this case. Now check for any horse that has won last time. Form’s tips are available for each race near the race card. While placing your bet write down “Odds on or evens, no bet” on your slip. This will help you eradicate by itself odds on and evens bets and be assured that all the selections are priced at odds against.

 

One more selection method is elaborated herewith. If you minutely follow the rules in this case, you can at times end up with one selection sometimes two.

 

For all the horses that are participating, mark down all those horses that have a steady form and have finished in the first three in their last three races. For the horses to qualify, they, should have those form figures. Following this you have to now discard the other horses and settle down with one horse. The elimination procedure should be as follows. Initially you need to eliminate those horses that do not have any rating in the topspeed ratings. Usually a highest of three such ratings can be found below each race. Now you need to eradicate all the horses that do not possess a favourite forecast by the Racing Post.

 

Following the process if you are finally left with one horse, then this is the selection for the day. Even after the elimination process, you end up with more than one horse then, the selection should be the horse quoted at the shortest price in the Racing Post forecast. In case you have no horses left then there is no bet for the day.

 

The horse racing tip for making choice of horses suggest that, what you are primarily backing is a horse who reflects steady form and returned good times. So the horse when performing against others certainly have a first rate chance.

 

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Count Fleet – One of the Best Two Year Old Race Horses Ever

May 7, 2013 By Leave a Comment

Count Fleet had one of the most spectacular two year old campaigns of all time, and was ranked by Bloodhorse magazine as the 5th greatest U.S. Thoroughbred racehorse of the 20th century. He was racing’s sixth Triple Crown winner.

He was born on March 24, 1940 at Stoner Creek Farm in Kentucky, sired by 1928 Kentucky Derby winner Reigh Count out of a mare called Quickly.

Count Fleet started his career comparatively early in contrast to today’s thoroughbreds, making his debut on June 1, 1942. He got off to a slow start as he finished second after swerving at the start and he ran out of ground in the short 5 furlong race. In his second race, he encountered some trouble early on and again finished a fast closing second.

It was not until his third start that the breakthrough occurred, which came on June 19, 1942 at Aqueduct racetrack, in which he went off at below even money odds. He justified his favoritism and drew off by 4 lengths.

He proceeded to win five of his next seven starts, and then he showed that he of the stuff legends are made of. While preparing for the Belmont Futurity, Count Fleet worked an astonishing six furlongs in 1:08 1/5 – unprecedented for a horse of any age at any time. Four clockers timed him, so there was no mistake. The work time was a full second off the track record. The blazing work probably took something out of him as he went on to finish third in that race. However, he would never lose again in his career.

In his final four starts at two and his six starts at three, Count Fleet would stamp himself as one of the great thoroughbreds of all time, drawing comparisons from some to the legendary Man o’ War.

He served notice of his potential greatness in the one-mile Champagne Stakes at Belmont which he won easily by 6 lengths in a track record time of 134 and 4/5, and which would not be broken until 1977 by another great two year old that went by Seattle Slew.

All his future victories came with ridiculous ease, and he rattled off 10 consecutive victories, none with a winning margin of less than 3 ½ lengths, and which included two victories of 25 or more lengths.

He then easily trounced an allowance field in preparation for the Pimlico Futurity on October 31, 1942 in which he equaled the track record and easily defeated his former rival Occupation by five lengths, the same margin by which Occupation had defeated Count Fleet in the Belmont Futurity earlier that month.

Count Fleet went off as the second choice to favorite Occupation, no doubt due to his having been defeated by that one twice previously, but from this point on he would go favored for the remainder of his career, the betting public never letting him escape for anything better than 40 cents on the dollar.

The largest margin of victory Count Fleet would register came in his final race of his 2-year-old season, the Walden Stakes under 122 pounds. He won by 30 lengths.

He set or equaled two track records as a 2-year-old – three if you count the legendary 108 and 1 work, and completed his two-year-old season by winning 10 of 15 starts (today we are lucky if we get to see a horse race more than three times as a 2-year-old). He never finished out of the money in those 15 starts.

Needless to say, he was named the American Champion Two-Year-Old Male Horse of 1942. Such is his renown that today two races are named in his honor, the Count Fleet Stakes at Aqueduct and the Count Fleet Sprint Handicap at Oaklawn.

Count Fleet is one of many great horses that raced in America. Through the last 150 years, we have consistently seen top champion horses appear. Imagine a racing game that allows you to match up champions from different eras against each other to find out who was the best horse.

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Zenyatta Running Against Rachel Alexandra – The Match Race that …

May 6, 2013 By Leave a Comment


It was the match race that could have been that never was. In 2009, the racing world was hoping to see the eventual Horse of the Year, Rachel Alexandra, face off with the eventual Breeder’s Cup Classic winner Zenyatta.

I would have loved to have seen Smarty Jones face off with Afleet Alex, or Barbaro against Uncle Mo, but those horses did not race at the same time, whereas Rachel and Zenyatta’s racing careers did overlap significantly.

There was much debate in the racing world over who was better, and it would be one of the more intriguing matchups simply because of the two different styles. Rachel Alexandra was a frontrunner and Zenyatta was a closer. If it were agreed that the two were evenly matched on any surface, then common handicapping wisdom usually favors the frontrunner simply because the pacesetter can dictate slower early fractions, ensuring that they have plenty in the tank left in the stretch.

Who was really better? It is difficult to say – Zenyatta on the one hand won 19 out of 20 career races, her only loss being a half length loss in the 2010 Breeder’s Cup Classic to Blame. Rachel Alexandra won 13 of 18 career starts, and finished either first or second in 17 of those 18 starts, her only out of the money finish coming in her first career start at the short distance of 4 ½ furlongs in May of her two year old season, at time at which many two year olds are just in the early developing stages.

Very few would dispute that the Rachel Alexandra of her four year old season never quite recaptured the magnificent form she displayed as a three year old in which she beat three year old males twice, first in the Preakness and then in the Haskell, and then went on to beat older males in the Grade 1 Woodward.

Zenyatta beat older males only once, and that was in the 2009 Breeder’s Cup Classic at Santa Anita, though she did finish a gallant second in the 2010 Classic as mentioned above. Rachel has five Grade 1 races to her credit; Zenyatta has 13 Grade 1 races under her belt.

The largest margin of victory Zenyatta ever registered was 4 ½ lengths, which came on dirt in the Grade 1 Apple Blossom Stakes at Oaklawn in 2008. When Rachel Alexandra was on her game, she destroyed the competition, winning races by double digit lengths. In the 2009 Kentucky Oaks, she demolished six rivals by 20 ¼ lengths, and in the Grade 1 Mother Goose later that year, she won by 19 ¼ lengths.

Even as a four year old she had one really brilliant race in winning the Grade 2 Fleur De Lys by 10 ½ lengths. In Rachel Alexandra’s two races in which she won by about 20 lengths, she was absolutely cruising and under wraps the final 1/8 of a mile. Zenyatta rarely had races like this where the jockey sat motionless on her, never even urging her. Zenyatta often had spectators holding their collective breaths in anticipation whether she would run down the frontrunner by the time they hit the wire.

It should also be noted that Zenyatta won most of her races on the synthetic surfaces of Southern California, though she did win three races on dirt convincingly. It is hard to say what surface she was really better on, especially since she did so well in last year’s Classic on dirt.

My feeling is that since Rachel never raced on synthetic, the edge would have to go to Zenyatta over this surface, even if Rachel were allowed to set her own pace. On dirt, however, I think Rachel Alexandra in her prime was just as good as Zenyatta if not better. She won the Grade 1 Mother Goose at Belmont at 1 1/8 miles in a time of 146 and 1/5 seconds! – Just 4/5 of a second off Secretariat’s track record. Would Zenyatta really have run Rachel Alexandra that day and run 146 flat or below? I doubt it. The Rachel of her three year old season I think would defeat Zenyatta on dirt, but I would give Zenyatta the slight edge over synthetic simply because she is proven over that surface.

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Horse racing is a sport of ‘what ifs’ and ‘what could have beens’. All horse racing enthusiasts are always comparing the past against the present champions. Playing them out in virtual races is a big part of what our game offers. What are your thoughts on who would win going the classic distance of 1-1/4 miles at Churchill Downs – Zenyatta or Rachel Alexandra? We would love to hear your comments below.

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When is a Coupled Entry a Good Wager in Horse Racing …

May 6, 2013 By Leave a Comment

A coupled entry is a wagering option that includes two horses.  For instance, if a trainer has two horses he or she wants to enter in a horse race, some state laws require that the two horses be considered as one entry.  In most instances the wagering option is given the program numbers of 1 and 1A and when a bettor places his or her wager or uses that one in an exotic bet, it is referred to simply as the “1”.

Naturally, at first glance, it seems this is a golden opportunity to make a profit.  Anyone who backs the 1 is getting two horses for the price of one.  IF either horse wins you get the winners share.  The same is true of place or show.  In fact, if the 1 is first and the 1A is second, the people who backed that coupled entry will get the whole place pool to divide among themselves.

Once in a while there will be two such betting interests in a race and then the second is usually referred to as the 2 and 2A.  In the case of a three horse entry it is 2, 2A and 2B.  Though all these horses may be entered in the race, it isn’t unusual for the trainer to scratch one or more of them.  After all, though one of them may win the race, the purse money will only go to that horse.  If you have two good horses that are capable of winning, it makes more sense to enter them in separate races where they won’t be competing against each other.

There are cases, however, where one of the horses isn’t entered to win the race but is merely a “rabbit”, meaning a horse that will set a torrid early pace in hopes of tiring other front runners out so that it’s entry mate, a horse that comes from off the pace or behind to win, make benefit from their early efforts and win the race.  A look at each horse and its running style may show you what the trainer has in mind.

The biggest drawback to betting on entries is that they are often over bet by the public who draws the obvious conclusion that they are getting two chances for the price of one.  One way to avoid this is to look at the horses and ask yourself if you would still take those odds and consider it a good bet if the better of the two horses was the only one in the race.  If you can make a strong case for that one horse and think the odds are fair, then you may have found a good bet, but if not, it may be better to pass the race or try to find a good bet among the other contenders.

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Remington Park – Parking – EzineMark

May 1, 2013 By Leave a Comment

Remington Park is a horse racing track in Oklahoma City owned by Magna Entertainment Corp. (MEC). It was built in 1988 by Edward J. DeBartolo Sr., and was the first of its kind in the state of Oklahoma at the time of construction. Remington Park offers more than racing; it offers an overall entertaining experience for racing fans. It features the upscale eatery – the Eclipse Restaurant, and the Twilight Thursdays where one can place bets and hang out. With the Quarter Horse season being held from March to June and the Thoroughbred Meet from August to November, it’s quite a busy track. Oklahoma Governor Brad Henry supervises the Remington Park meeting.

Magna Entertainment Corp. that owns Remington-Park is the largest owner and operator of horse racetracks in terms of revenue in North America, and also one of the leading suppliers of live racing content to wagering markets. Its acquisition of Remington Park has raised the expectations as well as excitement levels among visitors and racing fans. Remington-Park is one of the three racetracks owned by Magna (the others being Gulfstream Park and Magna Racing) that include casino operations. It’s also one of the only two racetracks (the other one being Lone Star Park) in Magna’s arsenal that can run thoroughbred and standardbred meets.

Remington Park, OKC also features picnic tables, beach volleyball, family recreation area with playground, concession centers, and TV monitors. This horse-racing track features all the ingredients for an exciting time for the family. OKC hotels offer shuttle services to important destinations in the city including Remington-Park, Oklahoma City.

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Pick Your Battles When Betting on Horse Races and Handicapping

April 29, 2013 By Leave a Comment

One of the secrets of successfully betting on horse races and making a profit from your handicapping, is knowing which races to play. Here are some thoughts and observations from years of playing the races and watching the sport of horseracing.

First of all, if you try to handicap and bet on all the races, you’re going to lose. You need to specialize and really focus if you want to beat the odds. The whole point of handicapping and setting fair odds for each contender is to spot a weakness in the crowd’s betting. It is a battle between you and the world, well at least the world of handicappers out there.

The way to win a battle is to pit your strength against their weakness. So therefore, before you figure them out, you need to know what you are good at. The way to find out is to pick a type of race, such as cheap claimers of less than a mile, and to only handicap them for a while and see how you do. Handicap those horse races and set what you consider fair odds for each contender.

Then compare your odds to what each horse went off at and if any of them would have provided a betting opportunity for you that you could have made a profit on. If you keep finding a recurring situation where you make a profit, start to play, but only when you are sure you have it mastered. On the other hand, if you find that you are continually underestimating horses in a particular situation, adjust your thinking and odds accordingly.

Once you have a few situations that you feel confident about, start making small bets and keep developing your skill, consider this boot camp. You are developing your ability to spot a good bet and the only thing that makes a bet good is that the crowd doesn’t know the true value of the bet. I realize that this is not easy, but it is possible.

Knowing your own strengths and the crowds weakness is how you win. You must practice, try each type of race and track and keep good notes. How many trials should you perform before you start really betting the races? Hundreds of races is not too many, but that all depends upon you and how you manage to learn and progress. The important thing is that you choose when you play and what you play and never let the enemy use their strength against your weakness. The great advantage a handicapper has against a gambler is that a gambler feels he or she must play almost every race while a handicapper picks and chooses.

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What to Know About Thoroughbred Race Horses

April 26, 2013 By Leave a Comment

The thoroughbred breed was actually created during the 17th and 18th centuries when mares from England were bred with Arabian stallions brought to the country. Later, the thoroughbreds were shipped to other countries including America, Australia, Japan, and Europe. Now close to 120,000 new thoroughbred foals are registered around the world each year.

In addition to being used as a racehorse, thoroughbreds are also a popular choice for dressage, foxhunting, polo, and jumping events. In some cases, the thoroughbred is crossed with another breed in order to create a horse with certain desired traits.

Due to the exertion that thoroughbreds give during their workouts and sports, they often experience medical troubles and injuries. The breed is also more likely to develop complications such as low fertility, lung bleeds, and small hearts compared to body size.

The thoroughbred breed, often called a purebred, can be identified by several distinct characteristics. They are typically a taller horse ranging from a little over 15 hands high up to 17 hands in height. They are usually seen in shades of brown, black, and gray. These colors include bay and chestnut. In rare cases, the horse may be seen in palomino or roan. While white is considered acceptable on the face and legs, it is not recognized by breeders as being an appropriate marking on the body. The body is reserved for one color only.

The ideal body of a thoroughbred has a short back with withers high near the neck base. The neck and legs are long and the body is slender. These horses have a short back and deep chest. The personality of a thoroughbred should be spirited.

For racing purposes, the date of age of the thoroughbred has been set by the calendar rather than the actual birth date. When racing in the Northern Hemisphere, the thoroughbreds gain a year of age at the first of each year in January. If in the Southern Hemisphere, the horses age a year in August.

Depending on the skill and popularity of the particular horse, buying a thoroughbred may be quite costly. In 2007, the average cost for a thoroughbred foal weaned from the mare was over $40,000. A one-year-old thoroughbred costs around $50,000 and two-year-old thoroughbreds averaged a cost of over $60,000. A thoroughbred mare averaged just over $70,000. Racing thoroughbreds with a good race record can cost over $1,000,000.

Thoroughbreds are considered a very valuable breed of horses in many sports. However, purchasing a thoroughbred is not something to take lightly. Only those experienced with handling, raising, and caring for the breed should own a horse of this type.

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Using Guidelines System for not losing money on horse races

April 25, 2013 By Leave a Comment

The fact remains that the majority of people who bets on horses were ahead of the game or lose it some times. It may only be for a few races, a day, a week.

 

Professional handicappers also have their losing times, but many of them manage to ride out the losing streaks and win enough at the end of the year to make a profit. It can be a long hard grind and there are very few people who can support themselves from their horseracing handicapping profits. On the other hand, there are people who make a modest amount of people and manage to stay a little ahead.

 

So if there are times that you are ahead, it means that you sometimes get it right, or perhaps, luck is on your side. Whatever the case may be, if you could eliminate some bad bets, you might stay ahead longer. A friend of mine used to be a pretty good handicapper and would often go home with more than he left with. His wife would ask him how he did.

 

He would tell her, “Well, I won $500 but then I made a few more bets and wound up with $300.”

 

“Well why don’t you just bet on the ones that are going to win, why bet on the other ones?” his wife would ask in disgust.

 

If only she understood that we bet only on the ones we think will win, but we don’t know which ones are good enough until after the race. So we bet on losers as well as winner. What is needed is a method that eliminates those losers and that means you need a system with guidelines.

 

If you look over your losing bets, you may see a pattern. It isn’t always easy to spot, in fact, sometimes it is downright impossible to see it, but a good system with guidelines can eliminate bad bets without all the effort of trying to figure it out yourself. What makes a horse racing system work better than no system at all is that the guidelines built into the system are often there to keep you from making bad bets.

 

The horses a good system eliminates are often more important than the ones it picks. Think about that.

 

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The most consistent horse racing systems have to have the basics and good guidelines and a handicapper must understand the basics and use those guidelines. I have been around horse racing for 50 years including as an owner. Without the basics the rest is not going to do any good. If you want to learn how a horse owner and insider handicaps just go to http://williewins.homestead.com/truecb.html and get the truth about eliminating bad bets.

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Earns a Firm Ground in the Audience's Heart for Horse-Racing

April 24, 2013 By Leave a Comment

When Gary Ross narrated the story of the racing legend Seabiscuit through his biographical movie, Seabiscuit: An American Legend, the world was stirred by the beauty and heart, the sport of horse racing constitutes within itself. Reminiscent of the same spirit, Secretariat touched millions of lives as it retold the legacy of the incredible reality and memories of one of the finest, the entire horse racing fraternity has ever witnessed, the fastest and probably the most loved, Secretariat.

Steven Spielberg’s sign off for the season following an unimaginably tremendous response for The Adventures of Tintin, comes another moving masterpiece, “War Horse” that tells the tale of a horse, born a thoroughbred but lived quite differently. The story depicts what choice the thoroughbred was born with and what life chose for him instead. Pictured as the protagonist, our central character, “Joey” has been played by fourteen different horses who portray the life journey of the horse from birth to adulthood.

It’s surprisingly uncanny how the horses involved in the movie have been so much of a perfection in conveying their emotions; despite the fact that screenplay comes from us, the meticulously handpicked crew of horses have delivered every frame with utter precision. The story revolves around the life of this fine horse who is purchased well beyond affordability, driven by affection, by a humble farmer, Ted (Peter Mullan). His wife, Rose (Emily Watson), is in absolute disagreement but their only son, Albert (Jeremy Irwine) finds a friend and a companion in Joey. The bond strengthens as they grow together, ploughing and farming, until the hell breaks loose with the onset of the disastrous World War I.

Cavalry separates Joey from Albert; while the boy resolves to find his beloved horse back and gets enlisted in the army, the story follows the odyssey Joey embarks upon, changing hands in the military, fighting from both sides under different masters, his experiences with so many others distressed by the war but deeply touched by his loyalty and compassion for human life; “War Horse” is an epic that brings to the audience the story of a magnificent horse born to race, ending up on battlefront waging wars and emerging victorious eventually, as the epitome of courage, bravery and honesty.

Will the journey meet a happy end? Watch it to find out.

And will the movie reinforce the passion for the sport in the audience through its narration of the journey accomplished by an otherwise ‘racing’ horse? How the movie influences and impacts every individual is beyond my control, but personally, I, most definitely, feel that the story will redefine the incredibility of racing horses despite the fact whether they are winning on the race tracks or a satisfactory contender. In either case, the stamina they display, the intelligence of understanding the sport and its various aspects, good or bad, the courage to stay consistent through victories or defeats is commendable.

The horse racing fraternity may benefit from this wonderful movie that depicts the life of a thoroughbred, its highs and lows, and the extreme situations that often become a part of their life. The sport, originally known as a “Sport of Kings” will sure benefit from the fact that “War Horse” brings to fore the emotions and feelings these exemplary animals are completely capable of experiencing and expressing through their untold actions.

Maybe the audience could catch a game after the flick to relive the magic associated with these beautiful animals, and if you would, join us, the huge family of equine lovers on HorseRaceGame. “War Horse” is an emotional rollercoaster ride packed with adventure; the 3D games from us will bring back just that; simply register and kick start, we will never disappoint you.

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Lee Lane-Edgar has 233 articles online

An ardent fan of horse racing for years, I am extremely passionate about writing articles on adventurous topics on the lines of new developments in sports, online games as well as other fields. You can find articles regarding Horse racing industries and interesting facts about the understanding of horse games. To know more about horse racing games online and related information log on to www.horseracegame.com.

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