First Post: Friday, February 3, 2012

How many Buffalo wings can you eat in a half-hour? Thirty? Maybe 50 if you’re inspired and a little bit hungry or gradually working your way toward the waitron with the tight orange shorts? All hail, Kobayashi — 337 in 30 minutes!

Wing Bowl XX in Phillie is in the books, and “The Tsunami” overwhelmed the competition, beating the runner-up by 66 wings in a Secretariat-in-the-Belmont-style romp. In the postgame interview, he was alleged to have said, “Arigato…buuuuuuuuuurp!”

Free ones: Rundown…

Aqueduct 2, 7, 9
Gulf 1, 6, 8, 10
Santa Anita 4, 7, 8

Pay-side: Your looming racing weekend. Today…

Laurel 2, 7, 9
Tampa 3, 6, 7
Fair Grounds 4, 10, 11
Oaklawn 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9
Turfway 4, 5, 12
Sam Houston 5, 9, 10

Hooves down, your Card of the Day resides in Hot Springs. Come on, you Jonah!

WMF Report: Another fine assortment…

Speed
Fair Grounds 5½f
Gulf 6f
Los Alamitos 4½f
Turf Paradise 6f, 1m

Rally
Golden Gate 5½f
Tampa 1m (T)

Nocturnal Submission: Race 4 at Delta (8:08 p.m. EST / 5:08 p.m. PST) finds #1 Destiny’s Runner and #11 Abastada with the potential for an underrated win. …Sunland’s eighth (5:15 / 2:15) has #3 Go Dom Go up for the longshot challenge. …

Thank you. Best wishes. Bye-bye for now. Ciao for now.