Many happy returns!
Belated birthday wishes to young Samuel Alexander Mitchell. Yea, verily, he’s got a quarter-century of living to his credit by now. Damn if the years do not fly by!
Free ones: Rundown…
Belmont 3, 4, 6, 8, 9
Gulf 3
Santa Anita 3, 6, 7
Pay-side: Today…
Arlington 3, 5, 8
BelTerra 6, 8
Churchill 6, 10
Golden Gate 1, 2, 4
Louisiana 7
Lone Star 3, 7, 8
Woodbine 2, 6, 7, 9
Today’s Stakes Pageantry: Seven at the Pimlico, but many of those have lost their initial lustre through wet weather and many scratches. Oh, well.
Away from Bawlamer, Canterbury in Minnehaha opens tonight, and #7 Heliskier is one of ’em Triple Threat Horseys in Race 6. Uh-oh. Now what?
Also a Triple Threat Horsey is #1 Aintgotno Home in PrM 8. However, ’Aint is third-choice on the morning-line, so you might get a price. Yow!
Yesterday’s Activity: Compact day, but a good one nonetheless.
First, as always, Welcome to The Home of The Runner-Up Finish, this time nearly led by sole-touted Big Special in the eighth at Lone Star.
Big Special, 8-1 on the morning line but bet-up to a fantastical 27-1, was second on your conventional V6 Betting Line, 4-1 Fair Odds in a contentious race, and was a solid 86 on the LifeLiner Speed Column analysis.
Big Special, was not really close at the end, beaten 4¾ lengths in a second-place finish, rallying hard. The winner was your 50¢-to-the-dollar fave, your gate-to-wire winner, complete LifeLiner array of 97-99-97.
Half-a-dollar on top of 27-1 for your exacta, and it somehow pays $56.20 in an eight-horse field. That’s pretty good.
Now to some winners. Nightcap at Arlington found Battle Facts, 9½-1, coming through at $21-even up top. Yea, verily, this made it a KING OF THE NETCAPPER BULLIESZ SPECIAL. Yeah!
Battle Facts won by a dirty nose, hanging on grimly all the way around, and the horse he beat was 17-1 and just could not get by, a real hanging-type effort. Battle Facts was 20-1 on the morning line.
‘BelTer-ra, Ter-ra, Whatever Will Be, Will Be…’ and the future was seen in sharp focus, for a change, by the touters, namely us, of the great Bonkersmate Guilded Reward in Race 7.
Guilded Reward, also 20-1 on the morning line, was bet-down even harder than Battle Facts, all the way to 7.70-1, good for a $17.40 win mutuel straight. Guilded Reward, ignored on the Betting Line in a contentious race but blessed with the second-top Life Liner Speed Column analysis in the field, drew away at the end for a nearly 4-length win.
Windy&rsqu;s Gone was your Race 1 winner at Louisiana, and your sole-touted horsey in the race. Windy’s Gone, 1½-1 (!) on your V6 Betting Line as the second-top horse there, also did just enough on the LifeLiner Speed Column analysis, 80. The morning line on ’Windy was 10-1 but she got away at 14-1, 14.20-1 really, and paid $30.40-straight to win by 1 length over your 40¢-to-the-dollar fave, who was the other Fair Odds 1½-1 horse in the race and the top LifeLiner Speed Column analysis runner. The dead-nuts cold-puncher’s perfecta box paid $44-even.
Finally, all eyes are on Pimlico this week, and Thursday brought us sole-touted Cork County in Race 5, $29.80 to win.
Cork County, Fair Odds of 5-1 as the second-choice on the V6 Betting Line in a contentious race, got away at 13.90-1. Cork County, complete LifeLiner array of 85-83-95 and first or second in each of the Early, Pace and Speed Columns of the LifeLiner analysis, ran gate to wire to win by 3 lengths.
The 8-5 fave, the top LifeLiner Speed Column analysis horsey in the field, ran second, completing the $80.60 exacta.
As always, hope you had ’em!
WMF Report:
Early
Arlington 6f
Churchill 1 1/16m
Chas. Town 4½f, 6½f
Emerald 5½f, 6f
Evangeline 6f
Indiana 5½f
Los Alamitos 4½f
Northlands 6f (WMF 419)
PennNat 6f
Prairie 6f
Santa Anita 6f
Nocturnal Submission: Sifting through the wreckage…
Thank you. Best wishes. Goodbye. Bye-bye.
AUBURN/ GPS’s Birthday is today and do not know if he is out of the air or not>> he is fanatically fine tuning his electricity out finder from the heliocopter job putter more people out of business meter or somethin like that. My blood sugar must be gettin low. Maybe Just Maybe the FEDS may help us HONEYMEN out. Been to La Fontaine IN. to find out. Didn’t see Hide nor Hair of the General nor Coach CREEM. Good BEE REPORT A COMIN. Maybe for “THE HONEYMAN” anyway. Could PREZ OH BLA MA help The HONEYMAN after puttin all the Coal Miners out of work. What shall we do with all the Strip Mine land. the Devil is in the Dtails. Report to follow soon!!!
Thank you. Better than horsey racing sometimes, the beesz. Except the nightcap at the Churchill tonight. You will read about it tomorrow, most assuredly. Lets go METZ! Hahahahahha.
Neonicotinoids again being blamed for the CCD. Monstanto out! Speaking of nicotine, BBC alleges tobacco farmers of exploiting child labour in the fields of Kentucky etc. It seems that when the leaves are wet with dew early in the morning and them chillun is out there working ’em, they absorb a whole bunch of nicotine and it makes them a little sick. Add that to their underage smoking and…
FRACK BABY FRACK. The Libertariatsz love that sort of stuff. Like DRILL BABY DRILL for non-Alaskansz.
Happy birthday to the Auburn Guy. War Eagle!
Can you imagine the Eastern Ky Strip mines covered with BEE friendly flowers & trees. Tulip poplar, Locust, Sourwood ect!!!! Would the Big “O” send $$$$ that way. He killed the coal industry, but NOW redemption???? See the “HONEYMAN” tryin to get help from the miners!!!! They take CASH ONLY, Why??? Alex, the Answer is!!!! I will lose my “DRAW”. The “HILLS” are so full of TIJUANIANS, who will work the mines, the miners stay home, buy Ale 8 Ones with the FOOD CARDS, pour out the fine liquid, get deposit on the bottles & play LOTTERY. Hows that for prosperity. They prefer Mtn. DEW anyway.
This BEE business is in the making. Bees not near to GMO’s what could that prove and BEE prospering. National BEEKEEPERS {EAS}big meeting in a couple of weeks at EKU. MONSANTO has 2 speaker coming to tell us how concerned they are about the BEEZ & I suppose how they do not cause harm. It will BEEE INTERSTING, to say the least. Honey’s a comin> Good Start> NEva seen white clover bloom this early.
I still haven’t givin up on A-ROD> Git out there Joel & go>> you can do it boy> make the lead and improve your position> don’t let those other guyz knock you around> he is soooo pretty, look at him!!!!> I think he looked at me and winked???> i’m bettin on him> that trainer is really payin attention to him>>> I think he had gold colored shoes on, that has to help. and those COLORS. Run boy, you can do it , run, run boy run. We’ll show em.
Tobacco wasn’t as bad as when the Government made the “Children” grow HEMP for WW II. Collect the seeds to make paint. The POOR “children” came out of them rows higher than kites. LAYIN UNDER THEM TREES A STARIN, My stars, How”d they do that.
The “HONEYMAN”
As to the “chillin” working in Tobacco. It is NOW non-permissive to keep your CHILLIN out of school for TOBACCO WORK !!!! Each child could have, 2 WEEKS, 14 days, of excused absences for tobacco labor. NO more brotha, no MORE!!!!! Ag Chief ,COMER has filed suit against The FEDS & ERIC HOLDER because they will not ship HEMP seeds to KY. Illegal they say. Seeds must be in ground BEFORE June! Whats a person to do but collect his DRAW.
The HONEYMAN