First Post: Friday, December 30, 2011

The chartcallers on Leroy N. Gingrich: “bid, led, stopped”.

They must have SynthTrack underfoot in the Hawkeye State of Ioway, what with one-paced plodders such as R. Ernest Paul and that frothy R. John Santorum being able to go past poor ol’ Newt, who might end up so far behind that he could be in a photo with the filly and the ambulance, or else be vanned off and humanely destroyed.

Only kidding. Maybe. Hey, some of us owe what little fame and fortune we have, to politics and sports and sympathetic contestant coordinators!

Free ones:

Aqueduct 1, 4, 6
Gulfstream 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11
Santa Anita 1, 3, 6, 8

You may not win at the ’Gulf, but you will not be bored while not winning. As the great Malkmus would sing: “The road to rejection is better than no road at all.”

Pay-side: Your holiday Saturday-Sunday holiday weekend. Your Monday-Friday holiday week. Today…

Turfway 1, 6, 10
Tampa 2, 5, 7, 9, 10
Fair Grounds 5, 8, 10
Hawthorne 6, 8, 9
Turf Paradise 2, 3, 8
Sunland 6, 9, 11

For all its undesirability, the State of Florida is truly the best place to be a horseplayer these days.

WMF Report:

Speed
Chas. Town 6½f
Gulf 6f
Sunland 6f
Turfway 6f

Nocturnal Submission: The fourth at Chas. Town (8:40 p.m. EST / 5:40 p.m. PST) has #10 Cinema Show trying to reel in the upset. …Delta, Race 4 (8:08 / 5:08), and #4 Knot Floyd and #2 Evacuation represent a Bonkers Box-type duo. …Later there, in the finale (10:49 / 7:49), #6 Bryson’s Comet can clean up. …Nice stuff in the closer at PennNat (9:17 / 6:17) for the underrated #7 Thunder Likely and #4 Mr Talc. …

Thank you. Best wishes. Drive safely.