First Post: Thursday, October 11, 2012

No Chain of Office and no hope of getting one…

How can you call yourself a true Irish Roman Catholic yet embrace this Alisa Zinoyevna Rosenbaum kult? It goes against all the legendary sentimentality and fighting spirit seemingly hard-coded in the DNA of the Irish. The University of Notre Dotre will not stand for it! Impostor!

It’s the same kind of idea that certain modern-day Jews espouse, renouncing their collectivist roots, going against the shtetls and kibbutzes that got them here in the first place. The dollar sign is a poor substitute for a heart, no?

We’d all be better off reading Joyce and Singer and Aleichem than Rosenbaum. When all logic grows cold and all thinking gets done / You’ll be warm in the arms of the Mayor of Simpleton…

Free ones: Rundown…

Belmont 5, 7, 9
Calder 3, 5, 7
Santa Anita 5, 6, 7

Pay-side: Today…

Keeneland 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Delpark 5, 6, 7
Laurel 5, 6, 9
Hawthorne 7, 8, 9
Remington 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

Today’s Stakes Pageantry: Keeneland’s eighth this afternoon is the Grade III Lehman Brothers Jessamine. It appears contentious, but this is an instance in which we lack imagination; it’s hard to see past #8 Always Kitten. Regretsz!

WMF Report:

Speed
Belmont 6f
Calder 6½f, 1m
Delpark 6f
Finger 6f
PennNat 6f
Remington 1m
Santa Anita 6f
Thistle 6f

Nocturnal Submission: Night off…

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