First Post: Friday, July 24, 2015

The True Voice of Swampatoga, Ladies & Gentlemen, Mistah Thos. Durkin. Always missed, never forgotten. Also, Honourable Mention to Marshall Cassidy.

Also for upstate New York, Ross Morton. Durkin, Cassidy, Morton. Even Johnnie Imbriale OK.

Free ones: Rundown…

Saratoga Race Course 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 9
Gulfstream Park Proper 3, 7, 9, 10
Del Mar Thoroughbred Club 2, 3, 4, 5, 7

Pay-side (Weekend/Weekday): Today…

Arlington 2, 7, 8
BelTerra 5, 7
Ellis Park 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Louisiana 2, 4, 5, 6, 7
Laurel 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Monmouth 7
Woodbine 5, 8, 9

Today’s Stakes Pageantry: Saratoga 9 on the free page.

Could be OK for #6 Point Piper in Del Mar 6.

Back to Swampatoga now, and Race 4 finds us tiptoeing around the morning-line fave to go with #1 Decked Out and #6 Moment Is Right instead.

Yesterday’s Activity: Clay-ton Ker-shaw CLAP-CLAP-CLAPCLAPCLAP. Clay-ton Ker-shaw CLAP-CLAP-CLAPCLAPCLAP. Not really fansz of the Doyersz, but it’s hard not to admire this sort of dealing, especially the dynamite dyad of him & Greinke, right now. If they get Hamelsz before Tejas does, Los Angelenosz won’t have to score many runs in the postseason to do OK. Still, whenever you run into Tommie Lasagna, it’s always good to remind him that his was the last La-La Land squad to be World Champeensz, back in 1988. (Anaheim did not change names until 2005.) World Serious participants since then have included the Houston Astrosz & Tampa Bay (Devil) Raysz. Tommie Lasagna. Remember in the cinema when Chevy Chase put his fist through Joe Don Baker’s framed photo of Tommie Lasagna? Yes, that was the same movie that considered the journalistic implications of ‘off-track betting in the Himalayas’.

WMF Report:

Early
Arapahoe 6f
BelTerra 6f
Canterbury 6f
Emerald 6f
Gulfstream 6f, 1m
Marquis 6f
Northlands 6f, 6½f
PennNat 6f
Prairie 6f
Thistle 6f
Woodbine (!) 6f (!)

Rally
Woodbine 1 1/16m (that’s more like it)

Nocturnal Submission: Sifting through the wreckage…

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