First Post: Sunday, April 1, 2012

W. Hollywood, Calif.; Rode in on a You-Know-What...April Fools!

C-c-c-cucumber, c-c-c-cabbage, c-c-c-cauliflower, men from Mars, April showers…

The Greatest Album Ever Made

It’s a good album to listen to during Holy Week, this Ocean Rain. It’s redolent with the Passion of the Christ and the start of springtime. No joke. Really.

Until such time, enjoy your Palm Sunday. In memory of the great maitre d’ have the Gigi Salad.

Free ones: Rundown…

Turf Paradise 3, 4, 8, 9
Gulf 3, 8, 10, 11
Santa Anita 3, 4, 9

Pay-side: Today…

Turfway 5, 7, 8
Pimlico 2, 4, 6, 7
Tampa 7, 9, 10
Fair Grounds 7, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14
Hawthorne 2, 6, 9
Oaklawn 3, 5, 7

New Orleans should host the Final Four every year, if this is what it does for the racing there: all today’s stabs come attached to Bonkersmates. Where yat? Who dat?

WMF Report:

Speed
Gulf 6f
Mountain 5f
Turfway 6f, 1m (!)
Turf Paradise 6f

Rally
Santa Anita 1m (T)

Nocturnal Submission: Going to Golden Gate now, Race 4 (5:18 p.m. EDT / 2:18 p.m. PDT), for #7 Rippling Star. …

Thank you. Best wishes. Please join us again tomorrow for whatever we can stitch together for that weekly feature known as “Monday Boxing”. Until such time, it’s goodbye. Bye-bye. Shalom.