First Post: Saturday, October 13, 2012

Self-Injected Baseball DEATH

Man, that was a sucker punch to the solar plexus, Nat fansz! Bradley T. Lidge would have converted that elusive save, you know. Lidge > Storen > E. Gagne > Dirty Lo Duca…

Man, that’s got to hurt. Not as bad as what the Tejas (Tejas!) fansz had to endure last year, but the psychic scars will linger until the Washingtonians win a playoff series. Condolences!

Free ones: Rundown…

Belmont 8, 9, 10
Calder 6, 8, 9
Santa Anita 2, 5, 7, 8

Pay-side: Today…

Keeneland 4, 6, 8, 10
Woodbine 5, 8, 9
Meadowlands 1, 3, 4, 5
Laurel 3, 10, 11
Hawthorne 2, 3, 8, 9
Remington 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7

Today’s Stakes Pageantry: Belmont 9, Calder 8 & 9, Santa Anita 5, 7, 8 all are stakes, and all are here at the vaunted Pick of the Page. Tyvm.

Pay-side contains Hawthorne 8, Woodbine 8.

Elsewhere, Suffolk’s eighth is the John Kirby, and #8 Adahai looks like the Affirmed-half of a two-horse showdown.

Also down to one in the sixth at Woodbine, the Ruling Angel: #3 Tu Endie Wei.

WMF Report:

Speed
Belmont 6f, 1m
Calder 6½f, 1m
Delpark 6f
Finger 6f
Mountain 6f
Keystone 6f, 1m70y
Santa Anita 6f
Suffolk 6f
Thistle 6f
Zia 6f

Nocturnal Submission: Chas. Town, Race 9 (11:03 p.m. EDT / 8:03 p.m. PDT), and #8 My Reward may present one to his few backersz. …Wild results being readied for the 11th at Big Fresno (8:27 / 5:27), where #7 Call Me a Dog, #1 Respect Life, #6 Taylor Marini have the bona fides. …Portland Meadows gets involved via its seventh (6:36 / 3:36), in which #2 Bronco Willie, if successful, will return more than a buck or two. …Race 5 at Retama (9:36 / 6:36) has #3 Growsontrees ripe for a money-harvest. …Then in the ninth there (11:28 / 8:28), #3 B G Country Girl will attempt to win it for the beautiful and talented Taylor Swift. …And then in the finale there (11:55 / 8:55), #5 Witt’s Midway and #4 February Gold look good enough. …

Racing!

Thank you. Best wishes. Goodbye. Drive safely.