First Post: Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Good afternoon now!

Free ones: Rundown…

Saratoga Race Course 1, 7, 10
Del Mar Thoroughbred Club 5, 8

Pay-side: Today…

Suffolk 8
Woodbine 2, 4, 5, 8

Today’s Stakes Pageantry:

Looks like a scramble in the seventh at Del Mar, the Green Flash, an appropriately named five-furlong dash on the grash; grash! Late-scratches have opened up a potential scare from #6 She Digs Me. This will have to be reflected at 4:45 p.m. EDT on the free page. Thank you.

Saratoga 6 was sacrificed to the gods of inclemency — Saunatoga! However, Race 8 there, the Troy, remains on the turf. In it…you’ll have to figure it out!

WO 3 stays on the turf or not; if it does, #2 Irish Mission is your vaunted Triple Threat Horsey. Uh-oh.

Yesterday’s Activity: Mountain! Silverdaddyofmine! Yow! West Virginia, mountain mama!

WMF Report:

Early
Beulah 6f
Del Mar (!) 6½f (!) (WMF 228) (!)
Northlands 6½f
PennNat 6f
Saratoga 7f (WMF 316)

Nocturnal Submission: Going to Albuquerque to visit Los Pollos Hermanosz! #2 Spinning Touch is your Gustavo Frings Play of the Day in Race 8 (7:11 p.m. EDT / 4:11 p.m. PDT); as an aside, still have never seen even one episode of that show; somehow it seeps in like sky blue crystal meth in fried-chicken batter; or something like that; we merely chirp; chirp, chirp, chirp. …

Thank you. Best wishes. Goodbye. Take care now.