First Post: Sunday, June 22, 2014

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Are you ready for some fútbol? Clint Dempsey & the rest of the Crip-Walkin’ Team USA are prepared to take on eternal pretty-boy CRonaldo7 and his hair-gel support staff, a k a Portugal. This could well and truly wipe the rest of the dangling Iberian Peninsula off the face of the soccer globe. U-S-A, U-S-A!

Ladbrokes quotes Portugal as odds-on 5-6 faves, however. William Hill has the furrinersz at 10-11. Coral and PaddyPower unavailable at press time.

Free ones: Rundown…

Belmont 7, 8
Calder / Gulf Calder 6, Gulf 6
Santa Anita 7, 8

Pay-side: Today…

Arlington 3, 4, 7, 8, 9
BelTerra 7, 8
Churchill 2, 3, 6, 7, 8
Louisiana 3
Monmouth 1, 3, 8, 10, 11, 12
Woodbine 1, 4, 5, 6, 7

Today’s Stakes Pageantry: Bel 8 on the free page, along with SA 7 & 8. On the pay-side it’s Mth 11.

In WO 8, #8 Laugh Track should be close to the leaders at the wire.

Wild cold-puncher’s box on tap in EmD 9: #9 Slice of Red, #7 Kenai King.

Pick a number, any number in PID 5. We flout that convention and pick two, both at 12-1 on your morning line: #9 Stoptalkingmaria, #11 Monster Sleeping.

Down to one, though for Pln 8: #6 Lady Fifty Two. Likewise #5 Forest House in SrP 8.

Yesterday’s Activity:

AP 4
Top-touted No Bull Jess, $43.40, with Second Bonkersmate Flashy Green completing your winning $247 Bonkers Exacta Box

CD 10
Top-touted Sweet Platinum, $23.60^*

LaD 7
Bonkersmate Silent Lust, $18.60

Mth 12
Sole-touted Local Motion, $47-even^*

WO 7 (HM)
Sole-touted Sweet Brew runner-up, 38½-1

^*-denotes mutuel from the last race of the day, thereby making it a KING OF THE NETCAPPER BULLIESZ special. BULLIESZ.

As always, hope you had ’em!

WMF Report:

Early
Arlington 6f
Arapahoe 6f
BelTerra 6f
Churchill 1m
Calder 5½f
Emerald 6f
Los Alamitos 4½f
Mountain 6f
Keystone 6f
Santa Anita 6f
SunRay 6½f
Thistle 6f

Rally
Arlington 1m (T)

Nocturnal Submission: Sifting through the wreckage…

Thank you. Best wishes. Goodbye. Bye-bye.