First Post: Thursday, June 30, 2011

The year’s already halfway over? Yikes!

Tempus fugit. Anyway, the free ones:

Rundown
Belmont 4, 5, 9
Calder 5, 7, 8
Hollypark 3, 4, 8

So-so at Belmont; likewise at Calder, and probably worse since they’re off the turf; OK in spots at Inglewood. Overall, it appears the racing secretaries are stacking the deck for the extended holiday weekend.

Pay-side:

Rundown
Churchill 8, 11, 12
River 4, 6, 7
Woodbine 1, 3, 6
Colonial 5, 7, 8
Lone Star 1, 5, 6

Exceptional stuff at Churchill; also that way at Colonial.

WMF Report:

Speed
Assiniboia 6f
Belmont 6f
Calder 6f
Chas. Town 4½f, 6½f
Evangeline 6f
Finger 6f
Lone Star 5f (T)
River 6f, 1m

Nocturnal Submission: Race 7 at Canterbury (10:11 p.m. EDT / 7:11 p.m. PDT), your typical bottom-level claimer, and #8 Haitian can win it for Wyclef Jean; also in the longshot mix is #2 Rogue River. …Another tossup is the fourth at Chas. Town (8:33 / 5:33), where #3 Golden County cannot be counted out. …Wild stab in the eighth there (10:25 / 7:25) for #7 Bay Button Bill. …

So long. Best wishes.