First Post: Friday, August 10, 2012

Good gateway to your sauna-like racing weekend…

Stay cool, fools, the heat rules. Or something like that.

Free ones: Rundown…

Saratoga Race Course 2, 5, 7
Calder 2, 9, 10, 12
DMTC 5, 6, 7

Pay-side: Today…

Monmouth 1, 2, 7, 10
Woodbine 3, 8, 10
Ellis Park 1, 3, 8
Arlington 4, 7, 10
Louisiana 4, 8, 9
Remington 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

Glad to see you again, Remington Park! We are swapping out RIVER for REMINGTON, a one-sided trade, like getting rid of Punk Bynum for Superhero Howard. Yes, we will miss being able to boost the hit-rate from River’s five- and six-horse lineups, but here’s to some zongo mutuels over at the OKC. Or not. “Let the luau continue!” Tyvm…

WMF Report:

Speed
Arapahoe 5½f, 6f
Les Bois 5f
Canterbury 6f
Ellis Park 6f
Emerald 5½f, 6f
Exhibition 6½f, 1 1/16m
Los Alamitos 4½f
Mountain 5f, 1m
Monmouth 6f
Prairie 5½f
River 6f
Thistle 6f

Rally
Saratoga 1m (InT)

Nocturnal Submission: Hoosier’s opener (5:30 p.m. EDT / 2:30 p.m. PDT) finds #3 Shes Down With Jim on the up. …Race 6 at PennNat (8:20 / 5:20), and #4 Breezy Boy and #3 Big M J are your Bonkers-type solution. …Also in the Keystone Commonwealth, Presque’s sixth (7:30 / 4:30) includes the outsider #2 Baystone. …

Thank you. Best wishes. Goodbye. Bye-bye.