First Post: Saturday, May 31, 2014

Rodent mindfulness

One moment: Imagine squirreled peace. The next: Raid the local nests for vulnerable hatchlings.

Free ones: Rundown…

Belmont 1, 5, 6, 8
Gulf 8
Santa Anita 1, 4

Pay-side: Today…

Arlington 4
Churchill 5, 6
Delpark 6
Golden Gate 7, 8, 9
Louisiana 9
Lone Star 9
Monmouth 4, 7, 11
Pimlico 4, 6, 7, 9
Suffolk 4, 7
Woodbine 2, 5, 8

Today’s Stakes Pageantry: Bel 5 on the free page. WO 8 on the pay-side.

The obvious #5 Effie Trinket deserves it in Bel 4. Same goes for #3 Dad’z Laugh in Crc 5.

Live co-third-choice on the morning-line in Gulf 7: #3 Lilbourne Eliza.

Looks like a cold-puncher’s box in SA 7: #1 Clubhouse Ride, #2 Fury Kapcori.

Tiptoeing around the morning-line fave, though, in the next race there: #7 Diversy Harbor, #8 Room Service.

Les Bois 7 has #3 Dark Brago looking too tough. Likewise #7 Famous Alice in PennNat 1.

However, Race 2 there is the Race of the Evening, featuring your NBCSN Upset Alert Upset Alert Quadruple Stumper of the Night: #2 Stormofthecentury, #11 Great Attack, #12 Ol Army, #9 Sensible Lady. Hoo-boy.

Tiptoeing around the fave in Race 3 via #5 Taptowne, #2 Arlo.

Longshot Triple Threat Horsey in Race 4: #7 Coastline. We’ll see. And in Race 6, #6 Uptown Boy is not out of it.

Over to Prairie now, and #1 Sugar Shock should not be much of one in Race 6.

Yesterday’s Activity: Only one winner, but it counts.

Over at the Pimlico, Third Bonkersmate Manchurian High took Race 7 at $42.80.

Manchurian High, eighth of 10 on the conventional V6 Betting Line and without Fair Odds in a contentious race, still was good enough on the LifeLiner Speed Column analysis, 82. He was 20-1 on both the morning line and in real life. He won by a determined half-length.

WMF Report:

Early
Arlington 6f
Belmont 6f
Churchill 6f, 7f
Chas. Town 4½f, 6½f, 7f
Emerald 5½f, 6f
Evangeline 6f
Fairmount 6f
Gulf 6f
Indiana 6f
Los Alamitos 4½f
Mountain 6f
Monmouth 6f
Northlands 6f
PennNat 6f
Keystone 5½f, 6f
Prairie 6f, 1m
SunRay 4½f, 6½f

Nocturnal Submission: Sifting through the wreckage…

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