Pinterest Contest! - Horse Racing Makes My Heart Race!

Best Board could win some awesome prizes!

Starting on March 12th, 2012 at 8 am CT, we’re launching our first themed contest on Pinterest and you’re invited! Gather your best horse racing photos, because we’re looking for two cohesive boards that will inspire the world to love horse racing! 

To enter, create a board, title it “Horse Racing Makes My Heart Race” then add a description of your aesthetic to your board. Make sure your board contains each of the 5 pins listed below, in no particular order. In each pin’s caption, include thename that the pin corresponds to for the contest, along with the hashtags #horseracing, #letYourHeartRace and #RemingtonPark. When your board is perfect, share it with us by posting a comment on the original contest announcement pin, with a link to your board, located in our “I love Horse Racing” board (Link to the promotion)

PINS:

- Best Horse Racing Moments

-My favorite Horses

- Beautiful Horses

- My favorite racetracks

-  My favorite memories

Will you say “Yes” to this awesome contest?   Make sure to check the details below. Your board could win (1) Remington Park “SCAN ME” t-shirt, (1) Remington Park Ball Cap and (1) Remington Park Hoodie!

*2 winners total*

 •You must follow @RemingtonPark on Pinterest to enter.

• Make sure you credit and link the photos to its original creator

 •Contest begins March 12^th, 2012 at 8 a.m, and ends April 13^th, 2012 at 12pm

• Each pin must include a caption listing the number and name that the pin corresponds to.

 •Each pin must include the hashtags  #horseracing, #letYourHeartRace and #RemingtonPark

•Only one entry board per person.

•Boards will be judged based on uniqueness, creativity and adherence to the guidelines.

 •Winners will be announced April 14th, 2012 at 12pm

•Pinterest is by invition only. You can request an invite from Pinterest.com   

We can’t wait to see the creative you share with us and Pinterest!

Prizes cannot be redeemed for cash or substituted for any other items by winners. The winners cannot assign or transfer prize. Sponsors reserve the right to substitute a comparable prize of like or greater value, including cash, for any prize, for any reason.

Remington Park reserves the right to cancel this contest at its discretion.

Remington Park shall not be responsible for any possible technical difficulties or delays which might otherwise affect eligibility.

Participation in this promotion is an agreement to abide by these Official Rules. Failure to comply with these Official Rules may result in disqualification from the promotion and a forfeiture of any prizes.

Acceptance of the prize constitutes winner’s permission for Remington Park to use his/her likeness or name for publicity or promotional uses without compensation or notice. Winner must agree to sign a publicity release form before prize will be released.

Follow Remington Park on Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/remingtonpark/

Win a Kindle Fire and other great prizes!

Share your favorite photo during our Remington Park 
Submit your favorite photo to our 2012 Remington Park/Quarter Horse Opening Weekend Photo Contest, Win a Kindle Fire and other great prizes!

Post your photo in our Fan page

http://www.facebook.com/​RemingtonParkFanPage OR

2- Email your entry at Yenni.Vance@RemingtonPark.​com

Submit a photo of you and your family or friends having fun, day at the races, dinning at any one of Remington Park’s Restaurants, casino; any fun moment you can capture in photos during Opening Weekend, March 2-4 2012.

PRIZES:

1st Place – Grand Prize:

• (1) Kindell Fire - Full Color 7" Multi-touch Display, Wi-Fi

2nd Place:

• (1) $40 Gift Certificate to redeem at any of Remington Park’s Restaurants (Bricktown Brewery, Henry Hudson’s or Silks)

• (1) $20 Gift Certificate to redeem at Remington Park Gift Shop

• $40 in Free Play

3rd Place:

• (1) $30 Gift Certificate to redeem at any of Remington Park’s Restaurants (Bricktown Brewery, Henry Hudson’s or Silks)

• (1) $10 Gift Certificate to redeem at Remington Park Gift Shop

• $30 in Free Play

4th Place:

• (1) $30 Gift Certificate to redeem at any of Remington Park’s Restaurants (Bricktown Brewery, Henry Hudson’s or Silks)

• $30 in Free Play

5th Place:

• (1) $20 Gift Certificate to redeem at any of Remington Park’s Restaurants (Bricktown Brewery, Henry Hudson’s or Silks)

• $20 in Free Play

Please read full contest rules below.

WHO CAN ENTER:

Entrants must reside in the state of Oklahoma, must be 18 years of age or older and have lawful access to the Internet and a valid Facebook account.

 Employees of Remington Park’s and its affiliated companies, advertising and promotion agencies, and the immediate family members of each are ineligible.

HOW TO ENTER:

No purchase is necessary to enter or win.

This is a Contest to be entered during the period beginning at 6PM on Friday, March 2, 2012 to enter for the Grand Prize: (1) Brand New Kindle Fire by submitting via Facebook https://www.facebook.com/​RemingtonParkFanPage a photo entry and a description of the moment you captured here at Remington Park during Opening Weekend.

 
Selection and Notification of Winners:

How to Submit your Entry

For participants to be eligible they must enter the promotion via Facebook. New and existing followers are eligible to participate.

1- Facebook Page: Post your photo in our Fan page

http://www.facebook.com/​RemingtonParkFanPage OR

2- Email your entry at Yenni.Vance@RemingtonPark.​com

 

 
Winner’s Selection:

1- Remington Park will select the 20 best submissions, and we’ll let our fans vote for their 5 favorite submissions.

- The 20 finalists will be announced on Friday, March 9^th at noon.

  
- The voting starts on Friday, March 9^th at 1pm and closes Wednesday, March 14^th at noon.

- The 5 final winners will be announced on Wednesday, March 14^th at 1pm on our Facebook fan Page: http://www.facebook.com/​RemingtonParkFanPage

- 5 winners total – the 3 photos with the most “Likes” will win the contest.

 


REQUIREMENTS OF ENTRIES:

Each Submission should consist of the following elements: [1] One entry only [2] One photo only [3] A written description of the moment you captured at Remington Park (not more than five hundred -500- words)

 
Entries that do not conform to the above requirements will be disqualified.

GENERAL RULES:

- Must “Like” Remington Park Fan Page

 - Only one name submission per person

 - Must be 18 or older to claim the prizes

 - Must be a Club Remington member. Not a member? Just sign up while you are there. Membership is free and easy

 - Remington Park reserves the right to remove any contestant or entry from the contest in case of fraud

 - The prize is nontransferable

- No cash option

 Prizes cannot be redeemed for cash or substituted for any other items by winners. The winners cannot assign or transfer prize. Sponsors reserve the right to substitute a comparable prize of like or greater value, including cash, for any prize, for any reason.

Remington Park reserves the right to cancel this contest at its discretion.

 Remington Park shall not be responsible for any possible technical difficulties or delays which might otherwise affect eligibility.

Participation in this promotion is an agreement to abide by these Official Rules. Failure to comply with these Official Rules may result in disqualification from the promotion and a forfeiture of any prizes.

Acceptance of the prize constitutes winner’s permission for Remington Park to use his/her likeness or name for publicity or promotional uses without compensation or notice. Winner must agree to sign a publicity release form before prize will be released.

This promotion is not sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with, Facebook. You are providing your information to Remington Park and not to Facebook. The information you provide will only be used by Remington Park for Opening Weekend Photo Contest.

Racing Is Racing

By Chris Kotulak

Communications & Broadcast Associate

On Saturday, February 11, 2012, I ran in the Frigid Five five-mile run that took place in Edmond, Oklahoma.  Edmond is the city adjacent to the northern city limits of OKC.  The novelty of my story is the next-to-nothing training I had going into the race; that, and the stark similarities of training and racing with the two-legged runners vs. the four-legged athletes.  

Let’s back up a bit.  The first weekend of February I travelled down to South Louisiana to be with my dear friends Chad and Tammy Hassenplflug, and to go to the Premier Night races at Delta Downs.  Yes, Star Guitar did win again (his 4^th straight Premier Night Classic).  Chad and Tammy are not only terrific people, they are two excellent horsemen and they also happen to be a wonderful couple.  Back in my TVG days, I called the Hassenpflugs Team H, because it really is a team-training operation with Chad and Tammy.  Team H is also into running, biking and competing in triathlons of all sorts.  Because I knew my weekend would have some sort of sweating in it, I passively started to train for it.  Here and there I would put in 10 or 15 minute runs on the treadmill at the health club; one weekend in January I even ran outside on back-to-back days, logging about 2 miles each day.  Big stuff!  Not really, but lately the modest fitness level I keep/kept was the weekly soccer games I played with the grooms in the Remington Park backstretch league I formed and playing in some ice hockey games.   But soccer on a reduced size field (in a league that ended in October), and skating in a few pickup games (before Christmas) is no way to train for a 5-mile race. 

Team H stuck it to me and threw me right into the run-bike-run method of training they use when they are not in a genuine race.  Long story short, I ran 2 miles and biked 6 and I was finished.  Tammy and Chad and their friend Kerry did significantly more and - at a faster pace.  What I accomplished on foot and on wheels, totaled roughly 50 minutes of continuous activity; and with that, I had my primary foundation for the Frigid Five.  More than anything, I had my inspiration from Tammy and Chad.   In discussion of our workout, while we were in their hot tub with a glass of cabernet (tub and wine both very therapeutic), it was remarkable how the horse training philosophy of the Hassenpflugs was not unlike their approach to running.  They like to be patient; they don’t ask for more than they should; they observe keenly and respond wisely; nutrition is a major consideration; they use the best equipment and they are open to trying new techniques of wellness.   It was so gratifying to see such a healthy lifestyle in application with both horse and human.  And the view of their beautiful Southwind Farm and home in a 103-degree, turbulating jacuzzi, made it all sound and feel so much better.

Unfortunately, the only other form of training I got in leading up to the race was one day of 20 minutes combining the StairMaster and treadmill and another day of about 25 minutes on the treadmill.  So often in horse racing you hear a trainer say before the race “I think my horse may need one.”  Well, I knew that was going to be me.  I knew I would be short in this race, but I had to start somewhere and the timing was right (or, it was now or never).  That too parallels horse racing, where an owner may have to run their horse in a race that is less desired than another more favorable race they may have planned for their horse.  That wasn’t really my alibi.  I just didn’t train hard enough to get legged up for my return to racing after my long layoff.  Incidentally, here are my past performances in my three previous races...  A 10k (6.2 miles) in Omaha in 1982 when I was age 18; another 10k in 2008 in Manhattan Beach, CA;  and a 5k (3.1 miles) in 2009 that looped me around Dodger Stadium.  My lack of significant training made me feel like I was heading into the Kentucky Derby off the Bachman Handicap at Fonner Park.  The Bachman is a half-mile stake for three-year-olds run in February.  It’s a prep for the Nebraska Derby – not the Kentucky Derby!


Oklahoma (and much of the nation) has had a record-setting mild winter.  But the folks who named the Frigid Five race would have been proud.  On race morning at the 9 a.m. start, it was cloudy, 24-degrees, and a 15mph north wind.  Mother Nature provided the frigid, now I had to produce the five.  I can already see that this story has gone way longer than I had expected, so let me just get to the important stuff. ..


The first four miles were a variation of enjoyable and bearable – unfortunately, that lead to miserable.  I was suited for the weather but I wasn’t prepared for the entire five miles.  In the final half-mile, felt like the horse that runs hard to the top of the stretch, comes off the bit mid-stretch and then just drops anchor.  I actually finished within my goal of a sub 44-minute final time.  And honestly, only a few minutes after the race I had recovered fairly well.  Post race, I stretched quite a bit, soaked in Epsom salts, took a few ibuprofen and was getting around fairly well.  The equivalent for a race horse would have been: an extra long cool-out walk, some muscle liniments and perhaps some bute (phenylbutazone), which is an anti-inflammatory.

Of course the morning after for both types of athletes can often be less pleasant.  For the guy who might say “I couldn’t get out of bed,” the horse trainer may say “he couldn’t get out of the stall.”  Either term would apply for me.  This adds new meaning to the term, walk of shame.  Holy ---!!!  It felt like I had razor blades in my thighs.  The thing is, I’m fine otherwise and I know I just have to work-out the massive deposit of lactic acid that is having a party in my quads.  After a day-or-so, the horse will be back jogging on the track in preparation for the next race.  Soon, I too will be back jogging, in fact, right now I’m going back to the health club to hit the treadmill for an extended-stride, brisk walk to help escort-out the evil from my legs. 

In keeping with my comparison to horse racing, The Frigid Five is coincidentally the first leg of a March/February Triple Crown they conduct in the area for runners.  I will miss the Preakness leg of it because I’ll be in Vegas for the AQHA National Convention.  But count me in for the Belmont leg on March 17^th with the 8k Saint Paddys Day Race.  8k is just a shade less than 5 miles, so I’ll be sure to be fit for that.  So the process has begun, thanks to the handy work Team H put into my mind and body.  There is a 5k this Saturday along the Oklahoma River near downtown OKC that I am training for.  Heck, that 3.1 miles will be like turning back to 7 furlongs after a mile and 1/8^th.  But, as in any form of racing – pace makes the race.  And training too!