This song should pick up your spirits.
Free ones: Rundown…
Saratoga Race Course 9, 11
Gulf 5, 8, 9, 10, 11
Del Mar Thoroughbred Club 1, 3, 6, 10, 11
Pay-side: Today…
Arlington 5, 6
BelTerra 7, 8
Ellis Park 7
Golden Gate 6, 7, 8, 9
Louisiana 1, 5, 7
Monmouth 5
Woodbine 1, 5, 7, 8, 10
Today’s Stakes Pageantry: Del Mar Thoroughbred Club 10, the Grade I HRTV Pacific Classic, on the free page. Rexdale-Etobicoke (a k a Woodbine) 8 on the pay-side.
#1 Obviously should run to that billing in Del Mar Thoroughbred Club 5, the track’s eponymous Grade II Mile.
Same goes for #7 Big Blue Kitten in Monmouth 11, the Grade 3 Hang Cliffer.
Siding with #5 Nonna Jo in Saratoga Race Course 5. Likewise #4 Dayatthespa in Race 7, named after the artists’s colony. More chalk in the eighth via #4 Flipcup.
#1 Stopshoppingdebbie again in Emerald 9.
Yesterday’s Activity: Ugh. Five horseys touted in Ellis Park 7; needed just the first two.
Top-touted Royal Saint won at a bet-down 7-1, paying $17.40 straight. It was a race lousy with first-timers and all of them had solid connections-lines. Yup.
However, all four touted horseys were indeed needed in Monmouth 11. Your — count ’em! — Third Bonkersmate Rusty Slipper prevailed at $29.20 up top. Useless for the exotics, however, as the 8-5 race-fave finished second.
As always, Welcome to The Home of The Runner-Up Finish, this time nearly led by sole-touted Dawn Now in the finale at Remington.
Dawn Now, 15-1 on the morning line and without Fair Odds in a contentious race on your conventional V6 Betting Line, nonetheless scored a fine 94 on the LifeLiner Speed Column analysis. She ran second, beaten 4 lengths, at 41-1.
Late-double score at the Suffolk Downs in E. Boston, Mass. Both horseys were sole-touted. Thus, the straight $2 ticket was all that was necessary.
In the eighth, it was Chaotic Bull at a bet-down $16.20. In the ninth, it was way-bet-down Freud’s Desire, $11.20. Can we have a price-check on this daily-double payoff? They list it at a scrumptious $423.40. Is that real? A fourth-choice 7-1 with a third-choice 4½-1 paying $423.40 in the parlay, no chance! Yet this is what happened. Price-check!
Now for some good ones. Over at the Rexdale-Etobicoke Int’l. it was lone-touted Meri Shika getting the marathon win by 1¼ lengths at $51-even.
And over at the Louisiana Downs, two horses were touted in Race 8. Top-touted Candy’s Rocket went off at 3½-1 and finished eighth. Boo!
Bonkersmate Skyclassic Way, 20-1 on the morning line and disregarded on the V6 Betting Line in a contentious race, nonetheless qualified for consideration via a competitive 87 in the LifeLiner Speed Column analysis.
Skyclassic Way, 30¢ shy of a nice, round 50-1 on the toteboard, ran to his complete LifeLiner array of 62-60-87 in rallying to win by a full length at $101.40 up top.
As always, hope you had ’em!
WMF Report:
Early
Del Mar Thoroughbred Club 6f
Ellis Park 6f
Los Alamitos 4½f
Keystone 6f
Thistle 6f, 1m
Rally
Canterbury 7½f (T)
Ellis Park 1m (T)
Gulf 1 1/16m (T)
Nocturnal Submission: Night off…
Thank you. Best wishes. Goodbye. So long now.
hello boys in the back room! yesterday sun. 8-24-14, MY FRIEND KEITH #10 6th race had the symbol “Mo” where the medication above the turf earnings. What does the symbol mean? tyvm
M = 1st Lasix, sez HDW staffer
o = blinkers off
What else?
thanks! gents
One-Eyed Pug is genderless, though it began as a female of its species
On the other paw, we ourselves have been fighting high estrogen levels for some time now. We hear they have a patch for that sort of thing these daysz