First Post: Saturday, November 16, 2013

Nature’s Butter

From the Land of The Avocado-Eatersz, welcome!

That phrase, ‘ -eatersz’, comes in handy, often. Back when the Pilipinas was under American Colonial Rule, the Great White Overseers used to address the locals, directly, to their small, brown faces, “You rice-eatersz!”.

As well, Louis Armstrong can be heard on one of his recordings of “Way Down Yonder in New Orleans” calling the home folks in the audience ‘gumbo-eatersz’.

So, yes, the ‘ -eatersz’ construction has had a long and interesting history. Use it to your advantage to forge an emotional bond with your audience. For example, in Montreal, ‘poutine-eatersz’. In Toronto, ‘[bleep]-eatersz’.

Thank you, Mayor Ford. Keep the quotes coming!

Free ones: Rundown…

Aqueduct 4, 6, 7, 8, 9
Calder / Gulf Calder 6, Calder 9, Gulf 4, Gulf 5, Gulf 6, Gulf 8
BetFail 4, 5, 7, 8

Pay-side: Today…

Churchill 4, 7, 8, 9
Golden Gate 2, 5, 7, 8, 9
Hawthorne 2, 4, 7
Laurel 2, 3, 5, 6, 8
Retama 3, 5, 7, 8
Remington 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Turf Paradise 4
Woodbine 5, 7, 11
Zia 8, 9

Today’s Stakes Pageantry: Aqu 7, 8 on the free page.

On the pay-side, it’s CD 7, 9, GG 7, Lrl 6, 8, Ret 5, 7, TuP 4.

Uh-oh. Vaunted Triple Threat Horsey status bestowed upon #4 Mystical Myles in Crc 7, the Excellent Luck.

Similarly endowed is the upset-minded #3 Signsealndeliver in Haw 6.

Looks good in Hol 3 for #2 Georgia. Cobb County, represent! Same goes for #8 Guam Typhoon in Race 7 at Laurel.

Yesterday’s Activity: And sometimes, all you need is a little mazel, boychik!

Behold Race 4 at Woodbine, featuring the top-touted Ba Ba Brett, one half of a coupled entry.

Ba Ba Brett was OK on the Betting Line, second-ranked there, in a contentious race, and tied for top LifeLiner Speed Column score. At 12-1 on the morning line, Ba Ba Brett went off at 30¢ shy of 22-1.

No good for Ba Ba Brett, though, a fifth-place finish. Boo! Hiss!

Here’s where that mazel comes in, tovarish. The entrymate of Ba Ba Brett, a first-timer named Callmeoldfashion, went gate-to-wire, saving the win mutuel on Ba Ba Brett: $45.40 up top, pretty good even for Canada, a country in which there’s always enough felines at the ol’ homestead but, of course, never enough 20-1 winnersz.

It was OK, because the connection line on Callmeoldfashion was 18pc/12pc/14pc. Howzat!

WMF Report:

Early
Calder 6f
Chas. Town 7f
Los Alamitos 4½f
Keystone 6f

Rally
Woodbine 7f

Nocturnal Submission: Sifting through the wreckage…

Thank you. Best wishes. Goodbye. Bye-bye.