First Post: Sunday, November 3, 2013

How ’bout that Mucho Macho Man! Always good to see weeping after a victory at the highest levels.

Free ones: Rundown…

Churchill 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Golden Gate 5, 7
Hawthorne 7, 8
Turf Paradise 8
Woodbine 1, 2, 5, 7, 9, 10
Zia 5, 9, 10

Aqueduct 4, 6, 7, 8, 9
Calder / Gulf Calder 5, Gulf 1, Gulf 4, Gulf 5, Gulf 7
Santa Anita 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8

Pay-side: Today…

Today’s Stakes Pageantry: Aqu 8 on the free page.

Should be OK for #5 Stopchargingmaria in Aqu 5, the Grade III Tempted.

A nonfavoured trio emerges from SA 9, the Grade II Goldikova: #9 Appealing, #2 Customer Base, #7 Miss Pippa.

Yesterday’s Activity: Over at the Gulf, Bonkersmate El Uno had a furious rally that would not be denied by man nor beast in the seventh, prevailing by — in this instance — a clean nose at 16-1.

El Uno, buried toward the bottom of the Betting Line and 15-1 on the morning line, nonetheless had the second-best LifeLiner Speed Column score in the 11-horse field. He paid $35.60 up top.

Down to the Retama for a way-bet-down Forest Angel descending upon the winner’s circle in Race 8 at $6.80. Six-eighty. This despite being 8-1 on the morning line. Thanks a lot, San Antonio! Thanks a lot! Tejas!

Forest Angel was top of the Betting Line, OK on LifeLiner and who knows why there was so much activity on this one. Given our notorious and healthful mistrust of Tejas, it certainly can’t be an army of V6 users storming the mutuels down there. No way. Texian Army.

Speaking of inexplicable action, here’s Laope taking the second at Churchill, $6.60. Granted, it was a six-horsey field, but Laope was 10-1 on your morning line! To be fair, late-scratches took many of the low-odds morning-line runners out, but still.

Better later on in Louisville, specifically Race 6, in which top-touted Eagle Soul (“Fly, Eagles, Fly! On the road to victory…”) had to fight, fight, fight all the way around to stay in front.

Eagle Soul, 10-1 on the morning line and 15-1 in real life, snuck into the calculations via a qualifying LifeLiner Speed Column score.

Up to E. Rutherford, N.J., now for the second at Meadowlands. Bonkersmate Ride Ride Ride won won won at one-one-to-one. At 12-1 on the morning line, Ride Ride Ride paid $24.60 straight.

Finally for your early Sunday morning, we look back to the last race on Saturday at the Remington Park, Oklahoma City, Okla. If it was the last race on the card, you know what that means. Yea, verily, we are proud to present to you the latest installment in an ongoing series we like to call “King of the NetCapper Bulliesz”. Bulliesz.

Here it was, Race 9 at the Remington, one touted horsey named Falcon Rock. Falcon Rock, next to the bottom on the Betting Line in a hellaciously contenteious race, was 12-1 on the morning line. Yet somehow salvation appeared in the form of Falcon Rock’s having the top LifeLiner Speed Column number in the field.

Falcon Rock was hopelessly defeated for the first six furlongs and shortly after that commenced the kind of top-level running he was most certainly capable of unleashing. It’s hard to win a turf race by open lengths, but this is precisely how it unfolded late for Falcon Rock.

Twelve-to-one would have been OK, 20-1 even better. Falcon Rock’s final odds were 20¢ shy of 35-1. Oklahoma! Better than Tejas! You’re doin’ fine, Oklahoma! Oklahoma, O-K! Better than Tejas!

Falcon Rock paid $71.60 to win.

WMF Report:

Early
Los Alamitos 4½f
Keystone 6f
Portland 6f
Santa Anita 6f, 1m
Thistle 1m
Zia 6f

Rally
Santa Anita @6½f (T)
Woodbine 7f

Nocturnal Submission: Sifting through the wreckage…

Thank you. Best wishes. Goodbye. Next time!