First Post: Saturday, January 17, 2015

Hold on to your mitre!

Is this any way to enrobe a Pontiff? Terrible hosts!

Free ones: Rundown…

Aqueduct 1, 2, 4, 6
Gulfstream Park Proper 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 11
Santa Anita 1, 3

Pay-side (Weekend/Weekday): Today…

Fair Grounds 2, 4, 6, 11, 12
Golden Gate 6
Sam Houston 5, 9, 10
Laurel 2, 5, 7, 9
Oaklawn 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9
Sunland 7, 8
Tampa 2, 6, 7, 9
Turfway 5, 6, 9
Turf Paradise 3, 4, 6

Today’s Stakes Pageantry: Gulfstream 5, 8 on the free page. On the pay-side it’s Fair Grounds 11, Sam Houston 9, Turfway 6, Turf Paradise 4.

Live fourth-choice on the morning line in Aqueduct 3: #1 Stormy Novel.

Favored #5 Albano seems OK in Fair Grounds 7. Then in the eighth, we tiptoe around the morning-line fave and prefer #6 Grand Contender, #5 String King. However, the chalk should come good again in Race 9: #9 Top Decile.

In Golden Gate 7, maybe the top two morning-line choices can be avoided: #4 Stand and Salute, #1 Cross the Line.

Sam Houston 8 finds #8 Supermason bricking them up and laying them down (really?).

Open in Oaklawn 8, with #3 Diva’s Diamond and #7 Haunted Heroine not really disadvantaged in relation to the rest. Likewise random in Sunland 9, and #5 Lux gets the call this time.

Yesterday’s Activity: OK at Gulfstream in the third, thanks to the victorious Second Bonkersmate Catskill Flyer, $31.60 up top, and First Bonkersmate Nora’s Music, 4-1, completing your winning $252 Bonkers Exacta Box.

N.B. In this one, the 11-10 fave was not able to finish in the top-four. Prerace numbers on him were not favorable; only fifth-best on the Betting Line, no Fair Odds in a contentious race, and then sixth-best (score: 67) on the LifeLiner Speed Column analysis. Yup.

WMF Report:

Early
Fair Grounds 6f
Tampa 6f

Rally
Gulfstream 1 1/16m (T)

Nocturnal Submission: Sifting through the wreckage…

Thank you. Best wishes. Goodbye. Drive safely.