First Post: Wednesday, July 6, 2011

After the long weekend, no free ones today.

However, the pay-side hums with — count ’em — five ovals. Here they are:

Rundown
Delpark 2, 5, 8
Suffolk 8, 9, 11
River 3, 7, 8
Colonial 4, 5, 8
Woodbine 3, 6, 8

These are all very good today; lots of crazy pieces, a plethora of head-scratching scrambles. Verily, it might be a day off for the principals, but these understudies can steal the spotlight. Yeah, that’s the ticket!

WMF Report:

Speed
Assiniboia 6f
Evangeline 6f
Northlands 6½f
River 6f
Suffolk 6f
Thistle 6f

Nocturnal Submission: The seventh at Les Bois (9:52 p.m. EDT / 6:52 p.m. PDT) has plenty of hopes, some of them at long prices on your morning line; a real scramble with no clear option means that potential reward is the paramount concern. After all that verbiage, a longshot cold-punchers box of #8 Most Majestic and #3 Nsync Lynx — the two farthest out issues on said morning line — is as good as any other. …In Race 4 at Evangeline (8:01 / 5:01), a longshot call to #3 Park N Go. …Then in the sixth at PennNat (8:04 / 5:04), inclusions of #5 Euro Ghost and #10 Better Than Dad make sense. …

Bye-bye.