First Post: Saturday, October 27, 2012

What a Relief…’cos It Ain’t a Frankfurter Without the Trotters!

Oskar Maier scoffs at this!

Of course, it you’ve ever enjoyed that Mid-Atlantic staple known as scrapple, you’ve seen an eyeball or two wink at you from your plate, and those whiskers still snort with breath! Scrapple for breakfast, Treet® for lunch!

Free ones: Rundown…

Belmont 3, 4, 6, 8, 10
Calder 7, 8, 10, 12
Santa Anita 6, 8, 9

Pay-side: Today…

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

Today’s Stakes Pageantry: Belmont 4 & 8, Santa Anita 8 are available gratis on the vaunted Pick of the Day page.

Those three races contain longshot hopes. Not the case in the ninth at Belmont, the Grade III Bold Ruler, which appears to be a gimme for the big #8 Caixa Eletronica. Samba!

Now, on the pay-side, Haw 8, Lrl 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, and WO 8 are all on the docket. Do enjoy that aperitif-BC card at Laurel today. Pretty much all afternoon, if you like a longshot, just play it. It’s a free play, like when the defense encroaches, the penalty flags fly and the quarterback connects with the flanker down the sideline. Yeah.

Uh-oh. Two horses on the morning line at lower than 2-1 in the fourth at the ’Gate, the Pike Place Dancer, yet we go with the third-choice, 10-1 in the official track programme: #4 Butterfly Soul.

Back to sanity (at least vis-a-vis the Great Unwashed) in Race 5 at the Turf Paradise, the Queen of the Green, and #4 Rare Sunset looks too good.

Fantastic randomness in the eighth there, the Cluer Memorial. Two in with a shot are #7 Quiet Again and #9 Fransor’s Finest.

Also: #5 Suntracer too strong in Haw 6, the Buck’s Boy. Upset alert in Lrl 8, the Dash: #5 Jazzy Idea.

WMF Report:

Speed
Chas. Town 6½f
Delpark 6f, 1m
Hawthorne 6f
PennNat 6f
Thistle 5f, 6f, 1m
Turf Paradise 6f (WMF 1000)
Zia 6f

Nocturnal Submission: Delta, Race 5 (8:36 p.m. EDT / 5:36 p.m. PDT), and #4 Rustown Hero has an upset chance. …Even better prospects for the next, the sixth (9:04 / 6:04), in which #5 Deadmansgun possesses the firepower. …PennNat’s ninth (9:41 / 6:41) finds #8 Pat Ron Potomac trying to win it for Wash., D.C. …The 10th at Retama (11:55 / 8:55) has #7 Kiss Me Kathrine trying to win it for Billie Jakesbeer & Cole Porter. …

Thank you. Best wishes. Goodbye. Later!