First Post: Thursday, January 30, 2014

Cold everywhere, even here, relative to yesterday, anyway. Only 61°F in your San Fernando Valley currently. Please, no death threatsz over the Interwebsz. At least you guysz away from Cali. have the great H₂O. That’s more important, the Universal Solvent.

Free ones: Rundown…

Gulf 5, 6, 7, 10
Santa Anita 4

Pay-side: Today…

Fair Grounds 4
Golden Gate 7
Laurel 9
Oaklawn 2, 4, 7, 9

Today’s Stakes Pageantry: None today, but this is the Eve of The Wing Bowl XXII. What do you put in your belly on the Night Before The Wing Bowl? Where are Kobayashi, Joey Chestnut, Sonya Thomas?

Yesterday’s Activity: One good one in Laurel 4.

Abundance of Class, second-choice on the conventional V6 Betting Line at Fair Odds of 4½-1, was 15-1 on the morning line and, amazingly, also in real life. ’gratsz to the morning-linemaker and the public!

Abundance of Class, second-best LifeLiner Speed Column score in the field, closed like the $8,000 starter-allowance champion he is, winning by 1¾ and $32-even.

WMF Report:

Early
Laurel 6f
Sunland 6f

Nocturnal Submission: We got Chas. Town 8 (10:11 p.m. EST / 7:11 p.m. PST) for the dynamite dyad of #7 Dangerous Vixen, #6 Flirting Song. …

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