First Post: Friday, September 6, 2013

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Here, piggie-piggie…here, piggie-piggie!

Short-Segment Barretts afflicts us today for the next 16 calendar days. (And, yes, regular consumption of chocolate-covered oink is a pretty good way to induce Short-Segment Barretts.)

Please, we do not take this condition of the esophagus lightly; we know many close friends and loved ones with it, and we ran this past them to make sure it was not entirely offensive. Thank you for your understanding. We present this disclaimer just in case we are doing an injustice or disservice. Thank you for your kind indulgence.

Free ones: Rundown…

Short-Segment Barretts (a k a Fairplex Park née Pomona Fair) 4, 10

Pay-side: Today…

Arlington 6, 7
Churchill 6, 10
Louisiana 2, 3, 5, 6, 8
Remington 1, 5, 6, 8, 9
Woodbine 4, 7, 8

Today’ Stakes Pageantry: One at Short-Segment Barretts, but we have nothing to add to it.

Yesterday’s Activity: Thanks to new user Ned Reldem, Esq., for pointing out a $100-plus winner last night at Minnehaha. We are too busy in love with LifeLiner to get all of these, but Mr. Ned Reldem, Esq., showed us that this great $100-plus winner at Minnehaha last night was second on the V6 Fair Odds Betting Line at 3-1. Good job, Mr. Ned Reldem, Esq.

We make mistakes, usually of commission, but last night, very sorry to report that we made one of omission instead. And it was in the face of a never-again $79.40 mutuel named Skip too Win in Presque 4. Distractions, distractions!

Let’ look at these bomb mutuels for your Thursday, shall we?

First, Mr. Reldem, Esq.’s. This guy has not been handicapping a long time, so he has beginner’s mind. Yes, he has read the good books, but mainly from a value-and-decision-orientation perspective and not from a handicapping-selection-gotta-pick-the-winner perspective. Already he is ahead of the curve.

As a baccalaureate graduate of Va. Poly (same as Ron Mexico, starting QB for, as he likes to call them, the Fithadelphia Igglesz) and postgraduate degree-holder from Washington and Lee Univ. (or “Hitler-Stalin”, as he likes to call it, also the school that gave us the football dittie called the “Washington and Lee Swing”) and recipient of professional accreditation in numerous states, Mr. Reldem, Esq., frequently asks the right questions, just as you’d expect from someone of his immense intellectual curiosity and occupational training.

Even though we are big on the LifeLiner, he does not have such hangups, so when Bandini’s Star came up second on the V6 Betting Line with fair odds of 3-1 (same as the top selection, actually) and the 58-1 was flashing on the totalizator board, he did not need much additional evidence; the public had its reasonable doubt and was unwilling to shoulder its burden of proof.

For DA Reldem, the prosecution went on as scheduled. This time, the jury came back with a guilty verdict against the Minnehaha bettors, and the financial compensation from the civil suit was $118.20 for each $2 win wager.

We were not moved before the motion. At the end of the trial, we were forced to admit, “Well done, counselor”.

Yet the opposite case was being tried at Presque Isle in Race 4 there. In it, Skip too Win was at the bottom (“ab-jection, yerhonor! ab-jection!”) of the Betting Line. Cazart! What would DA Ned Reldem do? Of course he would cash the ticket, because you know how attorneys are!

In this case, Skip too Win had the second-best LifeLiner Speed column number in the race, 82, qualifying on the arbitrary 80-plus requirement for that rating/measurement/metric. At 38-1 on the toteboard, why not?

And this is what it might all come down to: When you think your 38-1 or 58-1 has a chance, for whatever zany reason (Betting Line, LifeLiner, hatpins or tea leaves), you are free to take that chance. Not all your wild Bonkers horseys are going to oblige you; but as well, not every wild Bonkers horsey will you assign some shred of probability to. It can work out!

P.S. In the race before at Presque, Race 3, there was one we could both agree upon, DA Reldem and us, when Left Foot Slewie, 3-1 Fair Odds on the Betting Line and LifeLiner Speed 82 in a contentious race. Only 18-1, but a good melding of the two schools: $38.20.

With Skip too Win in the fourth, can you imagine what a double would have paid? Presque Isle, that’s grounds for legal action right there!

P.P.S. Redboarding? The haters will call it that, and for the Minnehaha race, they might not be wrong! However, given our record of complimentary touting, they can say all they want. We know what we do. Just an error of omission. What are you going to do?

P.P.P.S. Truly the best thing to do is to try this at home, run your own All-In-One V6 outputs yourself. Why rely on drowsy blog-posters? They’re only human. However, in your hands, you can make it pay nicely just like Mr. DA Ned Redlem, Esq. Don’t be limited by Shoutoute (who is that person, anyway? he smellsz!) or anybody else. Run these numbers yourself and see what sort of payoffs you yourself can knock down. We are OK at this, but you are likely better.

WMF Report:

Early
Albuquerque 5f
Emerald 5½f
Finger 6f
Fairmount 6f
Louisiana 6f
Marquis 6f
Northlands 6f, 6½f
PennNat 6f
Thistle 5½f, 1m

Rally
Woodbine 7f, 1 1/16m

Nocturnal Submission: Sifting through the wreckage now, hopefully more thoroughly and carefully than last night, when a survivor was ignored and wound up becoming a fatality. R.I.P.

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

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