First Post: Sunday, May 25, 2014

Another melodic ditty, another subversive message!

Free ones: Rundown…

Belmont 4, 8
Calder / Gulf Calder 6, 8, Gulf 6, 8
Santa Anita 5

Pay-side: Today…

Arlington 3, 8
BelTerra 2
Churchill 6
Golden Gate 5
Louisiana 4, 6
Lone Star 4, 6, 7, 9
Monmouth 1, 7, 8, 10, 11
Pimlico 1, 5, 9
Woodbine 4, 5, 8, 9, 10

Today’s Stakes Pageantry: Bel 8 on the free page. Mth 11 on the pay-side, along with WO 5 & 8.

SA 7 seems open, but #6 Sky High Gal emerges as one of ’em Triple Threat Horseys nonetheless. We report, you decide!

Ruidoso 10 has #1 Hard to Resist probably running to that billing.

Yesterday’s Activity: As always, Welcome to The Home of The Runner-Up Finish…with a twist!

Too many to analyze thoroughly (CD 1, 3, LaD 3), but how ’bout that Pim 9?

We touted the great Green Wave Girl on the Black-Eyed Susan undercard last week, but those races were washed off the turf. She came back yesterday, 10¢ shy of a full 30-1 on your Baltimore toteboard, and — what else? — ran second, beaten 1 length to the 3-1 public second-choice. Yes, we touted her again. Top-touted Green Wave Girl. Tulane #1 alwayszzz! Delbarton #1 alwayszzz! Hahahahhahahaha!

We always recommend against betting such longshots to place-and-show, but there are those rare occasions where they pay 42-1 to show!

It happened yesterday, via the ½-1 fave finishing sixth of eight horses. You know the score: this unbeatable Thoroughbred took $20M to show (or something like that!) and when her unfortunate big-backer did not collect his 5 percent on investment, they divvied up that $20M (or something like that!) amongst the surprised (and delighted!) place-and-show ticketholders on the horseys that did run 1-2-3.

The winner paid $8.20, $8.00 and $16.60 (‘that’s OK’); Green Wave Girl paid $28.60, and $85.80 (‘that’s OK’); the show-horse paid $56.80 (‘that’s OK’). ‘All prices OK.’.

(Yes, the prices were OK, but the reference in this instance is to when they used to read the race results over the air on the AM radio, mainly the all-news, all-the-time stations, and they would read the prices across-the-board, and when the place- or show-price paid more than the win-price, or when the show-price paid more than the place-price, the announcer would have to assure the listener that the seemingly erroneous place- or show-price was, in fact, ‘OK’ and not some error over the wire or an electronic seizure by the ticker. So, that’s the history lesson for today: ‘Twenty-eight-sixty to place, EIGHTY-FIVE-EIGHTY to show…THAT’s OK’. That’s the old-timey romance of that story. There’s also old-timey romance of the sports pages of the major daily newspapers carrying racing results and entries from all over North America, but that’s another story for another time.)

We cannot predict any such circumstances with this sort of accuracy; however, playing the old-fashioned way, Green Wave Gal was playable in the backup spot of the exacta, with the 3-1 winner was OK on the LifeLiner Speed Column analysis. That exacta paid $120.60.

As well, the third-place finisher was the only other LifeLiner Speed Column analysis, so the LifeLiner Speed Column analysis had the trizacta amongst its three contenders (80-plus score on the LifeLiner Speed Column analysis), and the trizacta paid $701.80, for $2.

As for the sixth-place ½-1 bridgejumper’s lament, only fourth-best on the LifeLiner Speed Column analysis.

So, yes, straw-graspers, maybe you could have figured out that this $20M (or something like that) show-pool was one of those rare instances in which your $85-and-change show-price was eminently reachable.

Many ways to make money in this race. Hope you did!

WMF Report:

Early
Emerald 6f
Hastings 6½f
Los Alamitos 4½f
Mountain 5f, 6f
Monmouth 6f
Keystone 1m
Presque 6f
Prairie 6f
SunRay 4½f, 6½f

Nocturnal Submission: Sifting through the wreckage…

Thank you. Best wishes. Goodbye. So long now.