First Post: Sunday, April 29, 2012

Twenty years ago, Los Angeles, Calif. R. D. Hubbard’s Hollywood Park (Betfaire? Never heard of it!) in scenic downtown Inglewood (Staples Centre? What’s Staples?) has to shut down. The only winning strategy is to hunker down in your studio apt. with a couple of six-packs of Heineken (Fat Tire? In the history of the world you’ll never see a beer with that name!) and ride it out.

Free ones: Rundown…

Frantic City 4, 5, 6
Belmont 6, 7, 9
Calder 7, 9, 10
The BFH 2, 5, 7

Pay-side: Today…

Woodbine 2, 6, 7, 9, 10
Pimlico 4, 7, 8
Tampa 4, 6, 7
Hawthorne 2, 3, 7, 9
Lone Star 5, 6, 8, 9
Turf Paradise 2, 5, 7

WMF Report:

Speed
Calder 6f
Hastings 6f
Mountain 5f, 6f
Turf Paradise 5½f, 6f

Nocturnal Submission: Staying up late for Race 8 at the Mountain (9:55 p.m. EDT / 6:55 p.m. PDT), hoping that double-digit morning-line issues #7 Is It Tee and #4 Ready for Flight also will be disruptive night-owls. …

Thank you. Best wishes. Kindly join us again tomorrow for the weekly feature whose appellation is “Monday Boxing”. Until such time, it’s goodbye. Take care now.