First Post: Saturday, July 20, 2013

A lot of issues (!) (read: touted equines) right now, so let’s get straight to the action. Giddy-up!

Free ones: Rundown…

Saratoga Race Course 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 11
Gulf 2, 4, 6, 7
Del Mar Thoroughbred Club 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

Ah, one of those excellence-or-serious-injury kind of days at Swampatoga, DMTC. We will march on a road of bones, or else become the bones.

Pay-side: Rundown…

Arlington 4, 6, 7
Ellis Park 1, 5, 6, 8
Louisiana 5, 9, 10
Monmouth 4
Woodbine 2, 4

Today’s Stakes Pageantry: Sar 3 and Dmr 5 & 8 all on the free page.

AP 7 & ElP 8 on the pay-side.

Uh-oh. Vaunted Triple Threat Horsey in Crc 6: #1 My Brown Eyed Guy.

Tension builds for Mth 11, the Jersey Derby (R.I.P., Garden State Park). Default Box candidates are #1 Gun Point, #4 Vegas No Show.

Not wholly sold on the prohibitive chalk in Sar 9, the Grade III Shuvee. Maybe #4 Moon Philly can sneak in somewhere. However, #4 Princess of Sylmar seems too good in the 10th there, the Grade I HRTV-Racing Channel Alabama. Go, HRTV! Go, Racing Channel!

More chalk in WO 3: #5 Conquest Two Step. But in the eighth, the Grade III Ont. Matron, #2 Logan’s Peak and #4 Pure Blue Sky don’t seem entirely ridiculous.

Going for the second-choice on the morning line in Delpark 7: #3 Evening Show. Normal favourite service resumed in the big feature, Race 9, the Grade I Del. Hcp.: #3 Royal Delta.

Also a one-horse showdown in GP 8: #2 Sr. Quisqueyano.

Fave-longshot pairing in Suf 9, the Rise Jim: #10 Victor Laszlo, #6 Same Day Pleasure.

Another default scenario in AsD 7 via #6 Divine Wisdom, #4 Iwuz Indy Pool.

#6 Lesson in Deceit (!) has a legitimate-fave tag in the 10th at Les Bois.

If it stays on your turf, #1 Touch Magic is qualified in EvD 9.

Hey, Swampatoga doesn’t have a monopoly on contentious-race activity in the Empire State. Canandaigua, represent! FL 7 is hellacious: #2 Smitten by Gold, #9 Sweet Hot Toddy, #5 Sing Dixie Sing.

One last added-money upset candidate in Sac’to, Northern Cal (Sac’to, Northern Cal!). It’s in the eighth, and it’s #7 Fightin Mean Mad.

That’s a lot of horseys. Some might win!

Yesterday’s Activity: Downtown Domonic Brown!

WMF Report:

Early
Arlington 6f
Arapahoe 6f
Assiniboia 6f
Les Bois 5f
Delpark 6f
Emerald 6f, 1m
Evangeline 6f
Finger 6f
Fairmount 1m
Marquis 6f
Monmouth 6f
PennNat 6f, 1m
Suffolk 6f
Thistledown 5½f, 6f

Nocturnal Submission: Later in a Saturday Night Special, a freestanding edition.

Thank you. Best wishes. Goodbye. Next time!