Roll, Wave, Roll!
Computer-animated rendering of new, on-campus Tulane Stadium scheduled to open in September 2014.
Free ones: Rundown…
Belmont 8
Calder 6
Santa Anita 5, 8
Pay-side: Today…
Hawthorne 2, 4, 6, 7, 9
Keeneland 1, 4, 6, 8, 9, 10
Laurel 9, 10
Meadowlands (!) 2, 6
Retama 3, 7, 9
Remington 1, 7, 8, 9
Woodbine 1, 5, 6, 7, 8
Today’s Stakes Pageantry: Kee 9 on the pay-side.
Yesterday’s Activity: Bonkersmate Respectful Ed, 12-1 on the original morning line in a race washed off the turf. Respectful Ed paid $9.80 to win as the eighth of eight (dead last!) on the Betting Line, but with a qualifying 96 (a live first!) on the LifeLiner.
Honourable mention in the last at Remington to Bonkersmate Centripetal Force, 20-1 on the morning line and sent away at a mere 50¢ under 50-1 (half a hundred!) in actuality; that is, at 49.50-1. The chart says that the 49-1 Centripetal Force led inside the furlong grounds before being outfinished, beaten only a half a length for the whole ballgame. Centripetal Force ended up third and still paid only $14.80 to show. No good, Chollie, no good.
Which brings us back to the daytime and the track of Keeneland Race Course in Lexington, Ky. The opener turned out good, with lone-touted Bay Head running to that billing and winning at $23.40 straight. Bay Head was 10-1 on the morning line and dismissed on the Betting Line; however, the LifeLiner on her was OK (80-flat, third-best in the 12-horse field).
In the seventh there, First Bonkersmate Tell All You Know was defeated, but with dignity. At 8-1 on the morning line and 20¢ shy of 20-1 on the toteboard, Tell All You Know, like Centripetal Force in the Remington finale, made the lead with a furlong to go only to be run down at the wire by half a length. At least Tell All You Know managed to finish second.
The race after that, it was top-touted Janis’s Joy, second-choice on the Betting Line (5-1 Fair Odds) and second-choice on LifeLiner Speed (91, also second-best in the 11-horse field). Janis’s Joy was 15-1 on the morning line but went off at better than twice that: 33-1. She ran tight to her LifeLiner array (89-99-99) and scored gate-to-wire by a desperate nose at the finish. The win mutuel was $69-even. The race’s other tout, the Bonkersmate Terfaashah, ran third at 16-1, yielding another dreaded first-third skip exacta. However, the horse between them, the 3-1 public second-choice, was OK on LifeLiner, and the top exotics were live: $422 for the exacta, $4,904 for the trifecta. All prices quoted were for $2.
Lexington, Ky., firing up America!
WMF Report:
Early
Calder 6f
Chas. Town 4½f
Indiana 6f
Mountain 5½f
Northlands 6½f
PennNat 6f
Remington 1m
Santa Anita 6f
Thistle 6f
Nocturnal Submission: Sifting through the wreckage…
Thank you. Best wishes. Goodbye. So long now.
Just not quite bright, after Thursday & by the way did make a dollar on the JANIS”S horse and one that was GELDED at BALL-MONT PARK, ran 2nd & moved up by way of disqualification plus 2 more at KEE. Hooray for me!!!!! as I’m grindin it out with win bets only. KEE. Friday,, 2 RACEHORSE buddies Dr. Chandler, Race 7 Pavla and R. Sturgill, Race 10 SMILE DADDY waved me in the paddock. Got to have a pass now to enter, Terrorists I suppose, didn’t think I looked the part. Pavla in trouble all the way around , Smile Daddy will have to drop in for 10 and be gotten rid of. THE REAL STUMPER, Race 9, I get queer for BILL CONNELLY & dis regard #11 Queen’s Award who all but 1 day, being a year ago, repeats the feat again, Both times paying 60 plus bucks. I had her last year, but ignore her today. No wonder I leave Grumblin & Growlin. Tooooo Closeminded. Just like the werewolf that only sees his target & cannot, for the life of himself, see his surroundings. LEMON & HONEY 2nd in the 5th another catastrophe