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WELLESLEY, Mass. -- Ellen Port won her third U.S. Senior Womens Amateur title and seventh USGA championship Thursday, beating Andrea Kraus 3 and 2 at Wellesley Country Club.The 55-year-old Port, from St. Louis, also won the event for players 50-and-over in 2012 and 2013 and the U.S. Womens Mid-Amateur in 1995, 1996, 2000 and 2011. With seven USGA womens titles, shes tied for second place with Carol Semple Thompson and Anne Quast Sander, one behind JoAnne Gunderson Carner.Fantastic, Port said. Its always great to win a USGA championship. You work so hard to get here and its just so special when you can finish it off.Port was 2-under par for 16 holes, with the usual match-play concessions.Ellen is amazing, said the 55-year-old Kraus, from Baltimore. Shes a lovely human being and I give her incredible kudos. Shes got a family, she does it all.In addition to Carner, only Bobby Jones and Tiger Woods with nine, and Jack Nicklaus with eight have won more USGA championships than Port. Ports 7-1 record is the best among female players who have reached six or more USGA finals. Thompson is 7-3, Glenna Collett Vare 6-2, and Carner 6-3.On Wednesday night, Port received a text of encouragement from Thompson.Its mind-boggling, Port said. Im definitely not in that league. (Anne and Carol) are both good friends of mine. Carol drummed me the first time I played in an event. She beat me 6 and 5 at the (Womens) Western. She was a legend and we sat down and had lunch. Ive learned a lot from her and respect her. Its just a real honor.Port is the womens golf coach at Washington University in St. Louis. She also still teaches at the John Burroughs School, a private high school.My team has been texting me and theyve been having way more fun at practice since Ive been gone, Port said. The captains have been in charge and they have a trick-shot video that they created. I would not be sitting here if both of my employers had not allowed me to play and continue to compete. 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And in a seismic overhaul that would give the sport a significant cash boost, Whittingdale has outlined the Governments aim of pooling together income from betting on racing both in shops and online.He said: Our aim is to introduce a new funding arrangement for British racing by April 2017.We will create a level playing field for British-based and offshore gambling operators, and ensure a fair return from all bookmakers to racing, including those based offshore.Racing will be responsible for making decisions on spending the new fund and well be making further announcements shortly.British Horseracing Authority chief executive Nick Rust has been working hard to fill the void in the interim after having imposed an Authorised Betting Partner (ABP) policy, which requires bookmakers to pay racing an agreed chunk of the profits they make from racing bets online.Betfair, bet365, 32Red and BetVictor have so far signed up to the new system, with the four bookmakers having agreed to make voluntary contributions from their remote activity.Other established bookmakers like Ladbrokes, Betfred, Coral, William Hill and Paddy Power have yet to agree to ABP status. Sky Racing Tickets Fast, secure racing tickets: Exclusive racing offers near you While the BHA has welcomed the news, it still intends to build on the ABP scheme with the aim being to smooth the transition to the new funding model and to maintain the current level of Levy funding.Rust said: Todays announcement is one that should prove truly historic. The new funding model will ensure a fair transfer of funding to British racing based on all betting activity on the sport - a link that was first established in law in 1961.It meets all of racings requirements for a new funding model and can bear fruit in 2017, which is crucial given the significant Levy cliff we face.In the longer term, this means greater financial security for the sport, a platform for growth, a huge boost to our participants and more certainty for the tens of thousands of people who rely on racing for their livelihoods.We look forward to working with governmennt on the details of these proposals and to make sure the implementation timetable they have announced today is achieved.dddddddddddd.We now have a great opportunity to bring together racing and betting in tackling the sports funding issues for the benefit of all parties, and this is something that we are actively pursuing.We want to focus the joint efforts of racing and betting on innovation and growth in the sport as a betting product.Philip Freedman, executive chairman of the Horsemens Group, which represents the interests of racehorse owners, trainers, jockeys, stable staff and breeders, was also pleased by the announcement.He said: Horsemen will be delighted by the announcement that racing will get rights to funding from offshore bookmakers by April 2017.Restoring racings income from betting to the levels intended by previous government determinations, before so much betting had migrated offshore and outside the scope of the Levy, is an essential step in growing the industry to the benefit of both horsemen and betting operators.Stephen Atkin, chief executive of the Racecourse Association, added: The Racecourse Association warmly welcomes governments announcement as a critical moment for the sport and an important development for all of our members.Once implemented, this will provide much needed stability and an incentive to both racecourses and horsemen to invest in the sport for the long-term.We look forward to working with our colleagues in racing and betting as well as the government to help implement this decision.The Association of British Bookmakers is keen to work in unison with the government and the BHA, but said the proposed new system must be fair to betting shops.A statement read: We welcome the governments progress on introducing a new system for the betting industry to fund horse racing.We will be working closely with the government and horse racing on the critical and so far undecided detail of the new system to ensure that any new Levy is both fair to horse racing and the betting industry.The amount that racing receives from betting, particularly in media payments has grown by tens of millions in recent years.On top of this, betting shops already bear an unfair burden and the current rate of 10.75 per cent is unsustainable for the retail sector.Any new deal on Levy has to be fair to betting shops and should be based on an accurate assessment of the level of subsidy required to support horse racing. 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