First Post: Saturday, June 7, 2014

That’s a posteriori. What about a priori?

The Big NBC has dubbed today ‘Championship Saturday’, and they are not wrong!

Already a good tennis match today, the kind of competitors and competitive spirit that make for good viewing: fierce but fine-featured foxes with forehands, attacker against counterpuncher, styles make fights, and it was a 15-rounder, certainly, over three hours and hundreds of blows landed and absorbed and then returned with interest. ’gratsz to the Sugarpova.

Soon enough on this Saturday, California Chrome, then right after that NYC vs. LA, Game 2 in the major-league ice-hockey tournament. It promises much excitement, today does, Championship Saturday.

Free ones: Rundown…

BelTerra 5, 6, 8
Calder / Gulf Calder 3, Gulf 7, 10
Santa Anita 3, 6

Pay-side: Today…

Arlington 2, 5, 8, 10, 11
Churchill 6, 7, 10
Delpark 2, 6
Golden Gate 2, 9
Louisiana 2, 6, 9
Lone Star 3, 5, 8, 9, 10
Monmouth 5, 6, 12
Pimlico 5, 9, 11
Suffolk 1, 3, 8
Woodbine 4, 5, 6, 7, 10

Today’s Stakes Pageantry: Mth 12 on the pay-side.

Open in CD 9, and we side with #2 Tapit’s World and #3 I’m Already Sexy.

Likewise in SA 9, and #7 Forever Juanito is not out of it.

Tiptoeing around the morning-line fave in PrM 8, going instead for #7 Wolf Pack Jack, #6 Ice Hockey (!).

Another top event at the Thistle, Race 7, and your NBCSN Upset Alert Upset Alert can go any of — count ’em! — four ways: #3 Guilded Reward, #9 Pretty Much Mine, #6 I’m Kiddin, #10 Deniro’s Saint.

Yesterday’s Activity: Nothing doing. Today is the day that may be remembered for a long time, however.

WMF Report:

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

Nocturnal Submission: Sifting through the wreckage…

Thank you. Best wishes. Goodbye. Au revoir!