First Post: Sunday, September 30, 2012

End of September now, high temps of 97°F forecast for Studio City today. We harvest HEAT.

Tomorrow, even hotter: expectations of 100°F sometime in the afternoon. Autumn apples and cider are dearly missed!

Free ones: Rundown…

Belmont 6, 8, 10
Calder 5, 6, 8
Santa Anita 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10

Pay-side: Today…

Monmouth 6, 7, 8
Woodbine 5, 6, 9, 10
Turfway 5, 7, 11
Arlington 2, 6, 7, 8, 11
Remington 2, 3, 4, 8, 9
Zia 8, 11, 12

Today’s Stakes Pageantry: The Pride of Poipu Bay, Kauai Katie, looks too hard to drag down in the seventh at Belmont, the Grade II Matron. Ditto #1 Carried Interest in the ninth there, the seventh’s male counterpart, the Grade II Futurity.

Longshot doozie in the ninth at Santa Anita, the Grade II John Henry Turf Championship Stakes. Find it on the vaunted Pick of the Day page.

WMF Report:

Speed
Belmont 6f
Calder 6½f
Fort Erie 6½f
Hastings 6½f
Mountain 6f
Monmouth 6f
Keystone 6f
Portland 5½f, 6f
Zia 6f

Nocturnal Submission: Night off…

Thank you. Best wishes. Please join us again tomorrow for the weekly minor hit “Monday Boxing”. Until such time, it’s goodbye. So long.