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FIRST$36,000, Maiden Claiming $50,000-$40,000, 2-Year-Olds Fillies, Five FurlongsPP Horse (Med Code), Wt. Jockey Last 3 Trainer Odds1 Your Ringer, 114 J. Espinoza x-x-x Peter Miller 4/12 We All Agree, 121 E. Maldonado 2-6-x Luis Mendez 8/53 Areeb, 112 J. Pyfer x-x-x Ryan Hanson 6/14 Jacrodra’s Devil, 121 T. McCarthy x-x-x Hector Palma 8/15 Blame It On Rose, 121 U. Rispoli 4-x-x Robert Hess, Jr. 6/16 I’m a Giraffe, 121 A. Cedillo x-x-x Peter Miller 6/17 Seven Exes, 121 K. Desormeaux x-x-x J. Desormeaux 5/1

SECOND$47,000, Claiming $40,000-$35,000, 3-Year-Olds, One Mile (T)PP Horse (Med Code), Wt. Jockey Last 3 Trainer Odds1 Cumberland Avenue (L), 120 T. McCarthy 7-5-1 Mark Glatt 12/12 Enough Nonsense (L), 120 M. Gutierrez 6-1-5 Doug O’Neill 8/13 Capper (M), 115 J. Pyfer 1-9-x Peter Eurton 8/14 Man Friday (L), 120 F. Prat 5-7-3 Doug O’Neill 5/25 Stone’s River (L), 120 J. Hernandez 1-5-7 Craig Lewis 15/16 Vantage Point (L), 120 A. Cedillo 7-1-4 Clifford Sise, Jr. 3/17 Muay Thai (M), 120 J. Bravo 4-3-4 Richard Baltas 4/18 Optimistic Valor (L), 120 K. Desormeaux 6-6-1 William Morey 4/1

THIRD$25,000, Maiden Claiming $20,000-$20,000, 3-Year-Olds & Up, Six FurlongsPP Horse (Med Code), Wt. Jockey Last 3 Trainer Odds1 Little Mischief (L), 120 A. Quinonez 6-11-7 Daniel Dunham 30/12 Honorary Degree (M), 115 J. Pyfer 4-6-7 Adam Kitchingman 5/13 Vaporized (L), 120 R. Gonzalez 4-3-x Kristin Mulhall 5/14 Mad Catter (L), 117 D. Herrera 4-3-x Leonard Powell 3/15 Test Drive (L), 120 E. Maldonado x-x-x Robert Hess, Jr. 12/16 Sir Flatter (L), 115 A. Centeno 5-3-6 Manuel Ortiz, Sr. 6/17 Union Bliss (L), 124 T. Pereira 4-3-6 Hector Palma 4/18 The Roan Ranger (L), 115 C. Ortega 6-2-4 David Bernstein 8/19 Eight Makar (L), 120 T. McCarthy x-x-x Doug O’Neill 5/1

FOURTH$74,000, Allowance Optional Claiming, 3-Year-Olds & Up, One MilePP Horse (Med Code), Wt. Jockey Last 3 Trainer Odds1 Order and Law (L), 123 K. Desormeaux 1-1-6 Vladimir Cerin 4/12 Bold Endeavor (L), 121 J. Hernandez 2-2-2 Mark Glatt 8/53 Family Biz (L), 121 A. Cedillo 3-6-1 Peter Miller 7/24 Union Dance (L), 123 F. Monroy 2-3-1 Isidro Tamayo 8/15 Shadrack (L), 125 T. Baze 1-1-2 Tim McCanna 8/16 Azul Coast (L), 121 F. Prat 7-5-7 Bob Baffert 6/17 Taishan (L), 121 V. Espinoza 3-4-4 Richard Baltas 8/1

FIFTH$33,000, Claiming $20,000-$18,000, 3-Year-Olds, One MilePP Horse (Med Code), Wt. Jockey Last 3 Trainer Odds1 Tacoflavoredkisses (L), 120 U. Rispoli 6-9-3 Andy Mathis 5/1

2 Tribal Nation (L), 120 K. Desormeaux 1-2-3 Andy Mathis 5/13 Launch Pad (L), 120 E. Maldonado 11-1-4 Robert Hess, Jr. 15/14 Chasing Fame (L), 120 M. Gutierrez 3-7-7 Doug O’Neill 6/15 Language Barrier (L), 113 C. Ortega 6-1-6 Doug O’Neill 15/16 Rookie Year (L), 120 F. Prat 6-1-6 Peter Miller 3/17 Mount Pelliar (L), 120 A. Cedillo 3-1-3 Alfredo Marquez 12/18 Man On the Moon (L), 120 J. Valdivia, Jr. 5-2-4 Jonathan Wong 5/19 Twilight Rider (L), 120 J. Hernandez 3-4-7 Jonathan Wong 7/2

SIXTH$74,000, Allowance Optional Claiming, 3-Year-Olds & Up, Five Furlongs (T)PP Horse (Med Code), Wt. Jockey Last 3 Trainer Odds1 Rager (L), 121 E. Maldonado 1-3-4 Andrew Lerner 10/12 Lieutenant Dan (L), 121 G. Franco 2-1-2 Steven Miyadi 5/13 Thanks Mr. Eidson (L), 121 M. Smith 4-3-2 Jeff Bonde 6/14 Love My Jimmy (L), 118 J. Valdivia, Jr. 3-1-1 Peter Miller 8/15 Fight On (L), 121 F. Prat 4-4-3 John Sadler 10/16 Commander (L), 121 J. Bravo 2-3-2 Peter Miller 3/17 Citrus Burst (L), 121 M. Gutierrez 4-5-2 Jeff Engler 10/18 Tilted Towers (L), 121 A. Cedillo 5-3-9 Philip D’Amato 6/19 Distant Vista (L), 121 J. Hernandez 1-5-1 Philip D’Amato 4/1

SEVENTH$175,000, Stakes, 3-Year-Olds Fillies, Seven FurlongsFleet Treat StakesPP Horse (Med Code), Wt. Jockey Last 3 Trainer Odds1 Fi Fi Pharoah, 120 U. Rispoli 1-1-4 Walther Solis 5/22 Closing Remarks, 118 J. Hernandez 2-2-2 Carla Gaines 3/1

3 Respectfully, 123 M. Smith 5-1-1 Ryan Hanson 5/14 Eddie’s New Dream, 118 M. Gutierrez 2-2-3 Ben Cecil 5/15 Wishtheyallcouldbe, 118 T. McCarthy 1-3-5 Mike Puype 20/16 Joymaker, 118 V. Espinoza 1-1-7 Quinn Howey 12/17 Amazen Grazen, 118 A. Cedillo 1-3-2 Ed Moger, Jr. 12/18 Teddy’s Barino, 118 F. Prat 1-5-x Mark Glatt 8/19 I’m So Anna, 123 K. Frey 3-1-3 Steve Sherman 6/1

EIGHTH$70,000, Maiden Special Weight, 3-Year-Olds & Up, One Mile (T)PP Horse (Med Code), Wt. Jockey Last 3 Trainer Odds1 Auspicious Style (L), 120 G. Franco 12-5-x Dan Blacker 30/12 Larry’s Legend (L), 120 W. Barnett 5-x-x Jeffrey Metz 30/13 Talklessworkmore (L), 115 J. Pyfer 5-x-x Shelbe Ruis 8/14 Club Mesquite (L), 120 D. Van Dyke x-x-x Blake Heap 20/15 Wilder Than Most (L), 125 F. Prat 7-2-x Carla Gaines 8/16 Henchman (L), 120 J. Hernandez 4-5-x Jeff Mullins 6/17 Harbor Sky (L), 120 K. Frey 11-7-x Sean McCarthy 15/18 Eagle in the Sky (L), 120 T. McCarthy 4-3-2 Michael McCarthy 3/19 Tiger’s Arrow (L), 120 J. Valdivia, Jr. x-x-x Michael McCarthy 15/110 Donner Lake (L), 120 M. Gutierrez 3-x-x Richard Baltas 6/111 New Soi Phet (L), 120 T. Baze 11-4-x Val Brinkerhoff 30/112 Really Big News (L), 120 U. Rispoli 2-2-x Tim Yakteen 5/213 Tallemark (L), 125 E. Maldonado 2-3-4 Karen Headley 4/198 Just About Enough, S. 9-x-x(c) 2021 Equibase Company LLC, all rights reserved.

Horse Racing

MILWAUKEE — Thou-sands of fans lined downtown Milwaukee streets on Thurs-day to catch a glimpse of their beloved Bucks in a parade to celebrate the city’s first NBA championship in half a cen-tury.

Six police officers on horse-back clopped past cheering fans at the head of a proces-sion that included a hook-and-ladder fire truck, occasionally blaring its horn, and open-air buses and flatbed trucks carry-ing Bucks stars including Finals MVP Giannis Antetokoun-mpo and Jrue Holiday, as well as the trophy they captured Tuesday night with a Game 6 victory over Phoenix.

Fans could be heard chant-ing, “Bucks in 6,” an odd but popular rallying cry with roots in a former Bucks player’s fruit-less prediction in 2013 that the team would take down the playoffs’ top seed at the time.

Antetokounmpo held his

son, 1-year-old Liam, atop a bus as fans along the route chanted “MVP!” Later, he shot a basketball into the crowd.

“Milwaukee, we did it baby! We did it!” Antetokounmpo said to a cheering crowd in the Deer District, the area outside the Bucks’ Fiserv Forum. “This is our city, this is our city, man, we did it! Unbelievable.”

Neil and Rachana Bhatia, both 34 and from suburban Waukesha, brought 1-month-old son Zain to the Deer Dis-trict, saying they wanted to give Zain an early taste of being a Bucks fan.

Neil Bhatia called winning the title “surreal.”

“It unifies the city and puts the city on a global stage. It’s great for the city and the state. It’s just bringing everybody to-gether to celebrate something that hasn’t happened in 50 years,” he said.

“The city has had its strug-gles. What I know is that it’s been a city that’s coming to-gether,” said longtime Bucks

fan Dameon Ellzey, 45, a Mil-waukee native who lives near the arena and was stationed there to see the parade.

“In my neighborhood, you could hear everybody on their porches screaming,” Ellzey said. “Black, white, Asian. In a city like Milwaukee, that’s big.”

Milwaukee has long ranked among the most segregated cities in America. Team Presi-dent Peter Feigin called it “the most segregated, racist place” he’d ever experienced, remarks he later softened. As the Bucks drove toward a championship this year, some people were

cheered by the diversity of the massive crowds that gathered in the Deer District to watch the Bucks on big TV screens.

The team’s ascendance has invigorated a Midwestern city far from the league’s more cos-mopolitan venues like Los An-geles, Boston or Miami — cit-ies that have traditionally found it easier to attract the game’s top players. One reason fans have embraced Antetokoun-mpo is his loyalty to the team that drafted him eight years ago when he was just 18.

“He recognizes the city and its quality and he resonates with it,” Timothy Seymour, 20, said of Antetokounmpo. “He really reflects our work ethic. He works hard. And he reflects how we’re only going to get better.”

Police estimated 100,000 people jammed the Deer Dis-trict for Tuesday night’s Game 6. Though the Coronavirus pandemic has lessened com-pared to a year ago, the level of cases in both Wisconsin and

Milwaukee County still is rated by the state as high, with daily new cases in the county rough-ly tripling over the past two weeks to 80 per day.

City health officials noted Thursday that announcements of the parade had urged that unvaccinated people wear masks. Few were visible among fans on the parade route or lat-er outside the arena. The city health department said their contact tracing team would closely monitor the event.

Julie Willems Van Dijk, deputy secretary of the state Department of Health Ser-vices, predicted the two large gatherings would lead to more COVID-19 cases.

“We are concerned,” she said. “We know people want-ed to be jubilant and celebrate. But we know, half the state is fully vaccinated and half the state is not and I assume the same is true for people in the Deer District and the arena. And I didn’t see half the crowd masked.”

Bucks’ fans celebrate NBA championship with paradeNational Basketball Association | Milwaukee Bucks

By GRETCHEN EHLKEAssociated Press

Associated PressTROPHY LOVE — The Bucks’ Brook Lopez hugs the NBA Championship trophy during a parade celebrating Milwaukee’s NBA title on Thursday in Milwaukee.

NFL: Players Assoc. says protocols work when followed

For the 2021, the regular season has been expanded to 17 games.

The league says more than half its teams currently have COVID-19 vaccination rates greater than 80% of their players, and more than 75% of players are in the process of being vaccinated. All training camps will be open by the end of next week.

Nearly all clubs have vacci-nated 100% of their Tier 1 and 2 staffs — essentially players, coaches and other club mem-bers who have direct contact with the players. Teams have appropriate protocols set up for staffers who have not been vaccinated, consistent with the guidance given last April.

The players’ union, in re-sponse to Goodell’s memo, reminded its players that “the same basic rules applied last year.”

“The only difference this year is the NFL’s decision to impose additional penalties on clubs which are responsible for the outbreak and the avail-ability of proven vaccines,” the

NFLPA memo said Thursday. “The protocols we jointly

agreed to helped get us through a full season last year without missing game checks and are effective, when followed.”

Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott, who was strick-en with the Coronavirus last year, called getting the vaccine “a touchy subject,” though he added he has been vaccinated.

“You can’t really tell some-one what to do with their body,” Elliott said at Cowboys training camp. “I grew up in a family where we didn’t get vac-cines so it’s kind of hard to tell someone who their whole life their mom and dad tell them not to get vaccines to go get vaccinated. So I mean I don’t know, it’s everyone’s body, you can’t tell them what to do.”

As for potential forfeits, he added:

“A check is only monetary, you can’t put a price on some-one’s health or what they think will make them feel good or not make them feel good. Like I said, you’re kind of walking a tight line.”

Other key points in the

league’s memo:— If a vaccinated person

tests positive and is not symp-tomatic, he or she will be iso-lated and contact tracing will promptly occur. The positive individual will be permitted to return to duty after two nega-tive tests at least 24 hours apart, and will thereafter be tested ev-ery two weeks or as directed by the medical staffs. Vaccinated individuals will not be subject to quarantine as a result of close contact with an infected person.

— If an unvaccinated per-son tests positive, the protocols from 2020 will remain in effect. The person will be isolated for a period of 10 days and will then be permitted to return to duty if not symptomatic. Un-vaccinated individuals will con-tinue to be subject to a five-day quarantine period if they have close contact with an infected individual.

— Those who had a previ-ous COVID-19 infection will be considered fully vaccinated 14 days after they have had at least one dose of an approved vaccine.

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SOCCER: US women turn focus to New Zealand

where we had to come back,” Press said. “I think it was ac-tually really good to have this match. In 2008 we lost our first match and team won gold. So I think now we’re seeing this as a learning op-portunity. And the message is already ‘Heads up, put it be-hind us, next game.’ There’s no time in a tournament like this to dwell.”

It was the first loss for the United States since January 2019, when the team fell to France 3-1 in Le Havre. The U.S. went on to win the World Cup that summer.

The Americans are vy-ing for their fifth overall gold medal, more than any other nation, in a sport that joined the Olympics only in 1996. They’re aiming to be the first women’s team to win an Olympic title following a World Cup.

The United States failed to medal at the Rio de Janeiro Games after it was ousted in the quarterfinals by — yep — Sweden. And the Swedes drew 1-1 with the Americans in April, the team’s only non-vic-tory this year.

“I think we just got a little bit in our head,” Megan Rapi-noe admitted. “We’ll obviously watch film and all that, but you drop points in the beginning of a tournament and now you’re in sort of a do-or-die mode. So you’ve got to pick up points, otherwise we’re going home quick, and you don’t want to do that.”

The United States moves on to Saitama, where they’ll play the Ferns on Saturday as the group stage continues. Sweden will play Australia in the group.

The Matildas downed New Zealand 2-1 on Wednesday in their opening match in Group G.

With the win, Sweden made a strong case as poten-tial medalists in Tokyo. The fifth-ranked Swedes won silver in 2016, falling to champion Germany in the final match.

“I think now expectations will hit and you don’t know how it will affect each individu-al, but I think we are prepared for whatever emotion comes our way,” veteran goalkeeper Hedvig Lindahl said.

There are three groups of four teams playing at the Olympics. The top two from

each group and the two top third-place finishers advance to the knockout stage.

Britain sits atop Group E after its 2-0 victory over Chile. The Netherlands leads Group F on goal differential after a 10-3 victory over Zambia, the lowest-ranked team in the competition.

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NHL DRAFT: Several Michigan players expected

the Kraken can now start stocking up on prospects.

“It’s obviously a different feel and a different entity, but equally as exciting coming out of the entry draft with players, some that may be able to help us sooner than later, no doubt, but definitely are the future of our team,” Kraken coach Dave Hakstol said.

In a season in which the Stanley Cup was award-ed for the first time in July, COVID-19 has added an element of uncertainty in ranking prospects, many of whom had limited playing time because of constricted or canceled seasons in North America, or scrambled to join teams in Europe.

Add in the NHL’s annu-al pre-draft combine being canceled, and scouting staffs were forced to rely on limit-ed game tape or lean more heavily on Zoom calls with prospects for their projec-tions.

“There’s some mystery to this draft,” Colorado Av-alanche scouting director Wade Klippenstein said. “It’s not ideal. It would be nice to have more viewing, live view-ings especially, on players. But I think there’s incredible opportunity here this year.”

Michigan benefited from playing a 26-game season be-fore the second-seeded Wol-verines were forced to pull out of the NCAA Tourna-ment following positive tests.

Listed at 6-foot-6 and

213 pounds, Power is the NHL Scouting Bureau’s top-ranked prospect, a fluid skat-er and playmaker who made the most of the larger Euro-pean ice surface by helping Canada win a gold medal at the men’s world champion-ships in Latvia.

He is joined by Wolver-ines forwards Ken Johnson, ranked third among North American skaters, and sixth-ranked Matthew Beniers. They have the opportunity to make Michigan the first college hockey program to have three players selected in the first round.

An 18-year-old winger, William Eklund, is the top-ranked international skater after earning Swedish Hock-ey League rookie of the year honors.

Mason McTavish, the second-ranked North Amer-ican, joined numerous Cana-dians by playing in Europe. Forward Brennan Othmann, the eighth-ranked North American, did the same, us-ing his father’s ties to play in Switzerland after the On-tario Hockey League season was canceled.

“I had a lots of buddies I played with and played against, and they can’t show-case themselves,” Othmann said. “That’s just disappoint-ing for them and for me to hear that. We’ve worked our whole lives to get draft-ed in the National Hockey League.”

Central Scouting director Dan Marr acknowledged it’s more difficult to project

this year’s class, while noting every NHL team faces the same challenge. The fallout might see more mid-to-late round selections blossom into NHL players.

“There’s going to be a lot of players in the top 60 that are going on to go and play,” Marr said. “But what we don’t know is that oth-er group of players that we didn’t get to see much. ... The argument can be made there’s going to be a lot of mid-round picks that could play ahead of players taken before them.”

Another twist to this year’s draft class is the number of top prospects considering taking another year to de-velop before turning pro. Eklund said he intends on playing one more season in Sweden, while Power said he’s leaning toward return-ing for his sophomore college season.

That’s fine with Adams, who said it won’t factor into the Sabres’ decision.

“This is a tough league. So I think the one mistake we don’t want to make is put-ting someone in position that they’re just treading water,” Adams said. “We want them to be ready to play.”

NOTES: Though there are now 32 teams drafting, the first round will feature only 31 selections with the NHL stripping the Arizona Coyotes of their selection (11th overall) for violating the league’s combine testing policy.

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