First Post: Saturday, January 31, 2015

All right, all right, ya Drew Doughty-loversz! Take it easy! Keep your skates on. Man, that guy’s handsome.

Johnnie Depp lookalike for certain. The ladies love him. The facial hair makes all the difference, and it’s not that nonsense hipster-ironical Park Slope lumberjack beard. Nope. Messrs. Depp & Doughty & other never-was, middle-aged Depp-Doughty wannabes are wearing the real, genuine, authentical dark facial hair. Accept no substitutes!

Free ones: Rundown…

Aqueduct 4, 7, 8
Gulfstream Park Proper 2, 5, 8, 9, 11
Santa Anita 4, 8

Pay-side (Weekend/Weekday): Today…

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

Today’s Stakes Pageantry: Gulfstream 9, Santa Anita 8 on the free page. It’s Sam Houston 9, Tampa 9, 11, and Turfway 6 on the pay-side.

Live third-choice on your morning line in Aqueduct 3: #1 Moment in Dixie.

#4 Secret Circle seems best in Santa Anita 6.

Even-money on the morning line is probably right for #6 Take Charge Brandi in Oaklawn 8.

Looks like it’s down to two in Turf Paradise 3: #7 Grand Full Moon, #3 Solomon.

Yesterday’s Activity: As always, Welcome to The Home of The Runner-Up Finish, this time nearly led by top-touted Tio Kanki in Tampa 1.

Tio Kanki fell out of the original V6 Betting Line in a contentious race, no Fair Odds. But he was third-best on the LifeLiner Speed Column Analysis (80) and was 15-1 on your morning line.

He went off at 20¢ shy of 54-1 and was no match for the 1½-1 favourite, who won by 4½. However, that winner was your best-rated experienced runner in the field and the saver exactor paid $130-even.

Over at Fair Grounds, Triple Threat Horsey My Miss Mary, sole-touted runner in the opener, went off at 10¢ short of 19-1 and won, paying $39.80 up top. She was 12-1 on the morning line.

’Mary ran to her complete LifeLiner array (98-97-98) in wiring the field en route to a 14½-length score. What happened there?!

Next race, sole-touted Holiday Drama was bet-down hard from her 8-1 morning line and won by a clean neck at 3½-1. The 1 x 1 touted daily double paid $202.40, a little light when you consider that two odds-on horseys were defeated out of the parlay-gimmick. Oh, well.

As always, hope you had ’im.

WMF Report:

Early
Chas. Town 4½f
Fair Grounds 6f
Gulfstream 5f (T)
Santa Anita 6f, 1m
Sunland 1m
Turf Paradise 6f

Nocturnal Submission: Sifting through the wreckage…

Thank you. Best wishes. Goodbye. Later!