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The Rubbos have more than 30 years of experience each, and are master Martial Artists. Donald and Cheryl Lynne Rubbo are devoted Vajrayana Buddhist practitioners, under the guidance of the Venerable Lama Lodu Rinpoche. The esoteric, rigorous practice, discipline and complex visualizations of Vajrayana Buddhism has enhanced and deepened the Rubbos meditative abilities and healing skills.

 

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=== Sorenstam romps into quarters; top-five seeds still alive === Gladstone, NJ (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Women's world No. 1 Annika Sorenstam remained hot early Saturday as she romped to a 6 & 5 win over 17th-seed Brittany Lang in the third round of the HSBC Women's World Match Play Championship.

 

Coming off her win at the U.S. Women's Open, Sorenstam still has a long way to go if she is to win her second straight event. She will be joined in the quarterfinals by the remainder of the top-five seeds -- Michelle Wie, two-time winner this year Lorena Ochoa, Kraft Nabisco champion Karrie Webb and Paula Creamer.

 

Sorenstam took command of her match with Lang by winning four of the first six holes at the Highlands Course at Hamilton Farm Golf Club.

 

Inkster won three straight from the second versus 56th-seed Marcy Hart. Hart won back-to-back from the seventh, but Inkster took the ninth and 11th. Hart dropped the 3 & 2 decision to Inkster with a bogey at the 16th.

 

Mi Hyun Kim, the 14th seed, and Ochoa were even through 10 holes, but a birdie on 11 gave the Mexican the lead. Ochoa extended her lead on 14 and closed out a 3 & 2 win as Kim bogeyed the 16th.

 

Thirteenth-seed Pat Hurst, who fell to Sorenstam in the U.S. Women's Open playoff, was 3-down to Webb after five hole. Webb was buoyed by a hole-out eagle at the first. Webb stretched her lead to 4-up after nine and breezed to a 3 & 2 win despite Hurst claiming the 12th and 14th with birdies.

 

Webb will battle Creamer, who bested fellow teenager Morgan Pressel. Creamer was 4-up after 10 holes before the 12th-seeded Pressel won her first hole at the 11th. Pressel tried to fight back into it as she won on 15 and 16 to get within 2-down. However, Creamer closed out the 3 & 1 win with a birdie on 17.

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Horse Betting

(This is an update of a sportsbook for the May 4th issue of ESPN The Magazine).

The Kentucky Derby's post-position draw happened on Wednesday. And, as is always the case, shortly afterwards, a buzz raced around Churchill Downs. It was a low rumble at first, nothing that the squares in the mint julep crowd pick up right away. But by the time the sun set over the twin spires, the chatter was impossible to ignore. Everyone -- sharps, trainers, owners -- was talking about one thing: the wise guy horse, the pre-draw long shot us mopes didn't have on our radar until it was too late.

"You think you're hearing the scoop," says handicapper Lane Gold. "Then you get to the window, the odds are short, and you missed it."

Recognizing a wise-guy horse early is as hard as picking a Derby bonnet. That's because handicappers don't like hype (see ya, I Want Revenge). They want Thoroughbreds who look good losing prep races like the Santa Anita Derby. They eye horses who ate up the field after starting wide or made an easy transition from synthetic tracks to dirt. They look for ponies who showed muscle gain race to race and those who ran hard after several weeks' rest.

"A wise guy," says John Avello, a bookmaker at Wynn Las Vegas, "looks for a horse who can improve."

When I first wrote Horse Betting for The Mag, which I turned in a three weeks before Wednesday's draw, I predicted these three horses had wise guy potential:

CHOCOLATE CANDY (15-1 in mid-April, currently 20-1 according to Avello): His second-place finish at Santa Anita, following a seven-week layoff, proved two things: He can run after resting, and -- by losing a high-profile prep race -- he wouldn't be overhyped.

DESERT PARTY (15-1; 15-1): He was upset in the UAE Derby by a horse he had beaten twice. The public remembers his loss, but the wise guys his wins.

PIONEEROF THE NILE (8-1; 4-1): The big favorite at Santa Anita struggled to win, so he initially got less hype than Quality Road and I Want Revenge.

You may have noticed that the odds on Pioneerof the Nile have been cut in half, from 8-1 to 4-1. Which means the wise guys took a shine to him long before the post-position draw. But, to be honest, this is one of those years with four elite horses getting everyone's attention, squares and sharps alike.

"You're not gonna get a lot of chatter about a horse that isn't in that group, which includes Pioneer, I Want Revenge, Dunkirk and Friesan Fire," Avello told me Wednesday. "We don't have a group of horses behind those top four who look like real legit contenders."

Come Derby week, the final two elements in picking a wise guy horse are how he's working out and what gate he's coming out of.

(By the way, picking a Preakness favorite is a whole different bale of hay, partially based on how horses finish in the Derby. You can see my analysis of who has the best shot at Pimlico on Insider Sunday morning.)

Well, early in the week I Want Revenge, Pioneerof the Nile and Friesan Fire were working out better than anyone. Some thought Friesan Fire, currently 6-1, might have run too fast, burning a five-furlong run in :57 4/5. "When you are running that fast you have the sense that it took something out of him," says Gold. "The Derby is longer than any horse has run, and if they need that extra surge you worry they won't have it because they burned it in the workout."

But, Gold points out, Friesan Fire's trainer is Larry Jones, Two years ago his horse Hard Spun did a five-eighths workout in :57 3/5 and then went on to finish second, behind Street Sense, in the Derby. "Every trainer has different methods," says Gold. "And clearly he knows what he's doing."

Now, as for starting position, Gold says to remember this: Churchill Downs traditionally has 14 starting gates. For the Derby, it brings out auxiliary gates and between the original 14th gate and the new 15th gate, there is a little more space than there is between gates 1-14. "That 15 position will give you a precious second or two to sort out what's happening to your inside," says Gold. "Sixteen is also okay because you can follow the horse in front of you."

Dunkirk, one of the race favorites, is coming out of gate 15. In 16 is Baffert's Pioneerof the Nile. I Want Revenge drew 13, where Smarty Jones won from in 2004, and Friesan Fire picked the sixth position. "He doesn't have a lot of speed to the inside of him," says Gold. "So he will get a clear shot to be near the front."

All the jibber-jabber means this: Pioneerof the Nile has leapfrogged from 8-1 to being the second favorite, along with Dunkirk, behind I Want Revenge. Meanwhile, Friesan Fire, with a good trainer, a strong week of training and a decent post position, is still at 6-1. "By Saturday, it's possible he could go from fourth to the favorite," says Gold.

In other words, meet Friesan Fire, your 2009 wise guy horse.

"Now," says Avello, "it's time for action."

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