First Post: Friday, February 8, 2013

Rambling, lucid, random, serious…the Interwebsz posts of a cop-killing fugitive? Nae! Just your daily dosages of HiddenEntries.

If you look at the various photos taken of this guy, he’s always smiling. Indeed, his smile is really quite good, engaging and warm. Compared with some of the other notorious shooters of the past few years and months, this fugitive dominating the news the past few days appears to have had some meaningful social interactions with the world at-large. He is aggrieved, certainly, but there’s more here than garden-variety psychological meltdown.

Free ones: Rundown…

Sunland (deputizing for snowed-out Aqueduct) 9, 11
Gulf 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10
Santa Anita 1, 3, 6

Pay-side: Today…

Tampa 7, 9
Oaklawn 1, 5, 6, 7
Turf Paradise 3, 8, 9
Golden Gate 5
Turfway 2, 4, 5, 8, 11
Sam Houston 3, 4, 5

Today’s Stakes Pageantry: Luckily, this FG 6 race was run before we went to post here. It was a longshot winner in the midst of a 4-5 morning-line issue, and we were not close. It was good that you got him, hopefully, be we could not have helped you. Not this time. No one needed to know.

Yesterday’s Activity: The free page was a sham, as it frequently must be. But the pay-side…

…beginning with Tampa 5. First-time starter fever, and no good consensus emerged among the experienced maidens, two of whom — Favorite Slam and Bugler — measured up on the LifeLiner. This created an opening for the debuting Sit Down Pidgeon, 12-1 on the morning line and 14-1 at the off, to upset the field at $31.20. Favorite Slam, away at 1½-1, completed the $131 fave-on-the bottom perfacta (perfacta!).

Firster stats on ’Pidgeon: 27 percent trainer, 16 percent rider, first-time collaboration between the two.

Over at the Oaklawn in the Hot Springs in the Arkansas Razorback State in the Amurrika, the Boysz listed a Bonkers-type scenario involving Mucho Macho Uno and Western Sun in Race the Sixth. Of the five LifeLiner qualifiers, both those guys were no shorter than 12-1 on your morning line.

’Macho got some action to go off at 6-1 when the gates opened. But ’Sun was routinely ignored and was your ninth-choice in the wagering, field of 11. Western Sun won at $52.40, with top LifeLiner Ricky Tick running second in a $273 exfector. Alas, the show-horse escaped the calculations.

WMF Report:

Early
Gulf 6f
Sunland 6f
Turfway 1m
Turf Paradise 6f

Rally
Santa Anita 1m (T)
Tampa 1 1/16m (T)

Nocturnal Submission: Uh-oh. Bonkers-type time for your Race 9 at the Delta (10:19 p.m. EST / 7:19 p.m. PST): #9 Scoota Pete, #6 Tribute of Gold. …

Thank you. Best wishes. Goodbye. Drive safely.