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Free ones: Rundown…
Aqueduct 5, 9
Gulf 3, 6, 8, 10
Santa Anita 5, 7, 8
Pay-side: Today…
Tampa 4, 5, 8, 9
Laurel 3, 4
Oaklawn 4, 6, 8, 9
Golden Gate 4
Today’s Stakes Pageantry: At this time tomorrow, they’ll have run the So. Miss. Owners event at Fair Grounds. Regardless of weather, we shall bring it to you. Please stay grounded and patient until such time!
Yesterday’s Activity: Now, this Cynthia Publishing Company and its affiliated HiddenEntries blog, which now you read, how is it possible they can spout off about such various and unrelated topics as PILOT SEASON and cargo cults and 1990s college-rock music and the rest of the popular cultures at-large and still push home 25-1 shots for free on a near-daily basis, or else triple-digit perfectors and quad-number super-dupers and trizactas every other week or so?
That’s the wonder! That’s the beauty! Enjoy it! Enjoy both! This is much better than those paid TV presenters and know-it-all Interwebsz fora posters and half-wit print-media handicappers who are fine-tuning every last variable and shred of information before the race — and ending up entirely incorrect anyway! There’s no need for that sort of desperation! All they are trying to do is waste your precious time explaining that they are worthwhile! And it is desperate! Trust your own observations. Believe what your brain in your head is witnessing. You’ll be better off without all that noise, minus the chatter and static. Unless, of course, you enjoy drama and histrionics and so forth. In which case, have a wonderful time over there!
Here, we prefer as much signal as possible. We keep the head down and plow through the races. We can check hundreds a day and not feel bad about parroting what everyone else feels compelled to point out. In this regard, they are way, way, way smarter than us. Unless they check for smartness after the races are run!
So it was yesterday in Race 7 at the ’Gulf Park in Hallandale, Fla., U.S.A. Brave Apache was a typical no-hoper in a field of 12, eighth choice in the actual wagering. Morning-line odds on him were 15-1, so the public was not impressed at all. But the race was an open affair (bottom-level claimers on the main track frequently are, no?!), and so we turned to the LifeLiner to settle all ability-based squabbles. It returned three nice runners: Here We Go Joe, Mize the Big Cat and the aforementioned Brave Apache. OK.
The first two were at 2½-1 and 4-1 on the tote. No soap, no sale. Brave Apache won anyway, grinding out the decision at a valiant $52-even win mutuel. Regretsz on the perfector.
Elsewhere in the Sunshine State of Anita Bryant and Rick Scott, there was the ninth at Tampa. In that 10-horse knockout on the turf, the pay-side screamers were jumping up and down over a potential Bonkers Box. They were halfway right, with top selection Lost Camper finding his way to the front at the wire for a straight-up 10-1 score, $22-and-no-change.
That case involved another inscrutable handicapping puzzle at which the LifeLiner threw its formidable seal of approval upon five runners: Col. Bill, Fabledzapper, Tangled Tango, Lightning Power and the above-discussed Lost Camper.
Again, regretsz. No good on the exfecta, trizacta or even-super duper. Lucky to get the winner. Fortunate.
Runner-up status in the fifth at Turf Paradise, where 24-1 Sweetsomerwine was best of the rest, beaten by the 2-1 fave. Cazart! That fave was not sanctioned by the LifeLiner.
Back to the drawing board. Headscratchers begone!
WMF Report:
Early
Delta 5f
Gulf 6f
Tampa 6f
Rally
Santa Anita 1m (T) (WMF 8)
Tampa 1 1/16m (T)
Nocturnal Submission: Night off…
Thank you. Best wishes. Goodbye. Take care now.
Good handicappers have “lots a magination” {KY slang}”. So it is with you my friend. “half-wit” commentary. How descriptive you are!!!! It makes me laugh & is so true. An imagination beyond all imagination. That is funny when I imagine the plottin & analyzin in the studioz. But what chance have I got???
OK.