First Post: Sunday, January 20, 2013

Arse:

A
Shambolic
Season

It looks bad right now for any sort of Champions League placement. Other teams are just better. van Persie made the proper decision. Put a suicide watch on one Mistah Piers Morgan, OBE/MBE/H8SNRA.

Free ones: Rundown…

Golden Gate (deputizing for unplayable) Aqueduct 6
Gulf 2, 4, 6, 7, 9
Santa Anita 1, 3, 4, 5, 9

Pay-side: Today…

Tampa 3, 4
Turfway 2, 6, 8, 10
Oaklawn 1, 3, 5, 6, 7
Sunland 6, 9, 11
Sammie 3, 6, 8, 9, 10

Today’s Stakes Pageantry: Aqueduct is mainly unplayable today, and horseys like #2 Brigand in Race 7, the TurnoftheCentury, are the root cause. Too strong. Maybe.

OP 7 is on the pay-side.

Yesterday’s Activity: Disappointment after disappointment on the free page. The single strike was — as always — at the Gulf, where Regalo Mio upset the odds-on, paying 2½-1, well bet-down from the 8-1 morning line.

Lit de Bet, far back in the third race at the Santa Anita, Lit de Bet. Lit de Bet is one of those eternal swindle horseys that both parts of the V6 and, in turn, we always fall for. Never again! Not till the next time, anyway. Lit de Bet, please take a stall next to Shordawatyadrink and Cashinmywranglers. Cazart!

Now for the rest, which turned out to be our best. After a blank day at Turfway, it was on to the Tampa in the Oldsmar, Fla. There, it was a case of glory in the finale via Ashtyn Too, 10-1 on the morning line and a $2 win mutuel of $21-even. Contentious race through and through, so head for the LifeLiner, which deemed three of the 11 in the 80-plus category. Two of the three completed the $122 (for $2) perfecta.

Cold-punch exactor recommendation provided for Oaklawn 4 between top selection Plastique and Bonkersmate All That Glimmers. Well, it came back reversed, with ’Glimmers winning at 6-1, bet-down from 12-1 on the morning line, and Plastique, also 6-1 and also bet-down (but from 20-1), completing your winning $128 Bonkers Perfector Box.

Sunland 10 featured another winning bet-down: Devons Ca Ching ($10.60), a 12-1 chancer on the morning line. Howzat! Likewise Golden Gate 3 for English Royal ($16.20, from an 8-1 morning line). Likewise Sammie 2 for Tiz Biz ($6.80, from an 8-1 morning line).

Thus endeth the pay-side recap. Yet there was more joy, all complimentary, mind you, via stakes and “Nocturnal Submission” freebies. Yes, gratis, no charge, just for your curiosity and perusal! How is this possible? Maybe all this pro bono publico work and goodwill will keep us somewhat clean to the watching world at-large, just the way the LIVESTRONG Inc. did for L. Armstrong, the true inspiration for the Walter White character in Breaking Bad. And we’ve never even seen that show. Or South Park. Or Jon Stewart or Colbert. Or The Abbie Danton Programme. Yet, somehow, it is seeping all in, noxious osmosis. But we do try to see Jeopardy! every weeknight. Is that OK? Now, we should enjoy to expand our television-viewing horizon. Thus, kindly let us know which station is airing the ALF reruns, and at what hour. Tyvm.

Three stakes advisories in the daily “Today’s Stakes Pageantry” segment, four horseys mentioned and three winners returned, a race-hit-rate of 100 percentage points. Eight bucks out, $18.60 back in. Now, if you are an ill-wisher or simply like to see the statistical pendulum swing back to the opposite side, just watch this here Weblog tomorrow or this Saturday. We’re certain to revert to plenty of misses.

As for “Nocturnal Submission”, it blew up again after several consecutive quiet nights. Now, as long as you could divine that we meant not the eighth race but the seventh at Delta, you made out OK. You probably were able to figure it out by checking the program numbers and horse names and noticing that they fit the previous race, not the race mentioned. No matter. Four horseys were furnished in “Nocturnal Submission” for Race 7, three of them completing the winning trizacta, which paid $454 for each $1. The perzacta was $241 (for $2) and the straight-up winner was $21-even.

WMF Report:

Early
Aqueduct 6f
Gulf 6f
Keystone 6f, 1m
Turfway 6

Rally

Nocturnal Submission: Night off…

Thank you. Best wishes. Please join us again tomorrow for a special holiday Monday edition of “First Post”, plus a separate “Monday Boxing” feature, as applicable. Until either such time, it’s goodbye. Next time!