First Post: Thursday, January 1, 2015

Professor Emeritus Bender

Happy New Year!

Cage & Cork

Free ones:

Aqueduct 4, 6, 7, 8
Gulfstream Park Proper 1, 3, 4, 5, 10
Santa Anita 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

Pay-side: Today…

Fair Grounds 3, 5, 7
Golden Gate 4, 5, 7, 8
Hawthorne 4, 6, 7
Laurel 1, 3, 7, 9
Turfway 1, 3, 4, 7, 9

Today’s Stakes Pageantry: Santa Anita 8 on the free page.

Fave #7 Belle Gallantey looks legit in Aqueduct 3.

Upset call for #5 Thats No Bull (!) in Portland 2. Way-more obvious is #2 Society Girl in the third there. Completing the stakes troika is the Bonkers-type Box rolling in Race 8: #2 Johnski, #1 Maddie’s Gold.

Yesterday’s Activity: How ’bout that beautiful and talented Taylor Swift prancing around sub-freezing Times Square virtually naked! Yow! That’ll pick ya right up!

Second Bonkersmate Charlie the Boss, Gulf 8, $31.20
First Bonkersmate Claymaker, FG 7, $75.20
Top-touted Purims Faith, GG 7, $15-even
Bonkersmate Seattle Train, Haw 8, $14.60
Top-touted Freestyler, Tam 8, $17-even
Second Bonkersmate Ancient Bells, TP 7, $11-even

HM sole-touted Scrapple (‘mmmmm…scrapple…’), Lrl 5, runner-up at 24-1
HM top-touted Cobra’s Crown, TP 2, runner-up at 35-1

As always, Welcome to The Home of The Runner-Up Finish. To these nearly-wases and all the rest, next time!

WMF Report:

Early
Fair Grounds 1m70y (!) (WMF 154) (!)
Portland 6f

Nocturnal Submission: Night off…

Thank you. Best wishes. Goodbye. Drive safely.