First Post: Friday, March 29, 2013

Good Friday 2013

Salvador Dalí. Surreal, surely, but this painting shows a powerful realism evoking Caravaggio. Compare this image with the Ocean Rain album-cover art. Haunting. To all the faithful, a solemn Good Friday.

R.I.P.

Also coming to an end on this Good Friday 2013 is the BBC NewsPod podcast. It was a weekday half-hour programme that was decidedly British in tone and content. From it, we were able to follow the Jimmie Savile scandal, the Leveson Inquiry, cuts to the National Health and their effect on visits to GPs, the British linguistic construction of being “in hospital” rather than “in the hospital”, drink driving, High Street, lorries, petrol, motorways, A-levels, council flats, housing benefit, Prime Minister’s Questions, back-benchers, the whole lot. NewsPod, you’ll be missed.

Free ones: Rundown…

Aqueduct 6, 9
Gulf 5, 8
Santa Anita 3, 5, 8

Pay-side: Today…

Tampa 4, 8, 10
Fair Grounds 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Hawthorne 7, 9
Oaklawn 4, 5, 6, 7
Turf Paradise 7, 9
Turfway 2, 5, 7, 10

Today’s Stakes Pageantry: Two today, and the faves are strongly in play, it appears. In the Santa Anita feature, the Pasadena as Race 7, maybe a
cold-puncher’s scenario involving #6 Rosengold and #2 Mike Miceli.

Yesterday’s Activity: Sorry, La Salle. No good. SW Philly phloaters came up empty. Bye-bye, Ramon Galloway.

Commerce!

30 Years…Still Here…

Save here: https://cynthiapublishing.com/hp_wordpress/2013/03/26/30-30-30-sale-is-here-now-save-30-by-march-30/

WMF Report:

Early
Fair Grounds 6f
Fonner 6f
Gulf 6f
Hawthorne 6f
PennNat 1m
Santa Anita 6f
Tampa 1m40y
Turf Paradise 6f

Nocturnal Submission: Fonner 5 (5:48 p.m. EDT / 2:48 p.m. PDT) features the return of Mitt! Rommey (Rommey!). Yea, verily, he may have run second to Oblahblah in Nov. 2012, but this is March 2013, and he’s tan, he’s rested and he’s ready to win — that’s #2 Mitt. …Quadruple Stumper territory in the ninth there (7:36 / 4:36): #6 Firewhirl, #4 Red Headed Woman, #5 Oh Gee She’s Gold, #2 B G New Idea. …Don Imus Bonkers-type scenario in Fairmount (!) 8, which has #3 High Heir and #2 Napi getting together. …Also a Bonkers Box situation in the opener at the Mountain (7 / 4): #5 Vital Argument, #8 Some Kind of Magic. …It’s 30-1 on the morning line for #4 Powermouse in Mountain 4 (8:15 / 5:15). …

Thank you. Best wishes. Goodbye. Bye-bye.