First Post: Saturday, January 16, 2016

Hoo-boy. Did you catch last night’s episode of the Hawaii Five-O reboot? A real doozie. The sexual tension between these two finally found its release, and now we have an interracial love affair on our poi-stained hands. Now what?

In the original run, Chin-Ho Kellie was a devoted family man married to one of his own kind, with 15 or 16 children. Now in 2016, we have some interracial romance on the reboot. Somewhere, Don J. Trump is going to go after these ‘Hawaiian Values’, so-called. Be there. Aloha.

Free ones: Rundown…

Aqueduct 8
Gulfstream Park Proper 8, 9, 10, 12
Santa Anita 4, 5, 6, 8, 9

Pay-side (Weekend/Weekday): Today…

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

Today’s Stakes Pageantry: Gulf 9, 10 on the free page. On the pay-side it’s Fair Grounds 8, 10, 11, Golden Gate 7, Turfway 4, Turf Paradise 5.

Should be OK for #6 Hazards of Love in Delta 8. Ditto #2 Majestic Harbor in Fair Grounds 7.

#2 Runs With Bulls is not out of it in Gulf 11.

Yesterday’s Activity:

Track (Win Mutuels $20+/Gettable)

Aqueduct (1/0) — Ben McAdoo looks like a younger version of Silent Stan Kroenke.

Chas. Town (2/1) — Here’s your last-gasp winner of Race 5, Rapid Distinction, $48.60 up top. The complete LifeLiner Array saw her with nothing early and everything late: 60-60-92. She’s a contender, all right, though perhaps the touting would have been elusive, owing to a strong top pick on the Betting Line. High-octane chancers would have been happy, though. Certainly.

Delta (0/0) — Good story about Popeye’s Louisiana Kitchen, right here, cher: http://firstwefeast.com/eat/chefs-love-popeyes/. All true, every juicy, spicy bite.

Fair Grounds (1/0) — See Delta commentary.

Golden Gate (0/0) — Raiders being courted by Mistah Red McCombs in San Antone.

Gulf (2/1) — Race 3 upsetter Rapid Lightning went off before the free ones were posted. Pity. Pity also that he would not have been on the page, given his low-lying position on the Betting Line in a noncontentious race. Still, the high-octane chancers would have pushed him for inclusion, thanks to an unbeatable 99 on the LifeLiner Speed Column analysis rating, or else his unbeatable 97 on the LifeLiner Spread Column analysis rating, or both! A true Dual Qualifier! And he went virtually gate-to-wire to prove it. Ah, well. If you have the software, you undoubtedly have him. If you rely on us…our condolences!

Sam Houston Race Park (2/1) — Messer Mad Cat won the eighth and paid $23.80. OK on LifeLiner Spread, but might not have been a tout due to the presence of a seemingly strong top-pick on the conventional Betting Line in a noncontentious race.

Los Alamitos (0/0) — Ducks blitz Stars early, hang on for win.

Laurel (2/0) — ’skins out, but Caps currently unstoppable, 5 pts. better than the rest, with 4 games in-hand. Tough.

Oaklawn (5/3) — Opening Day, and a good one for the software. Race 5 had the sixth-touted (!) E. M. Maximus squeaking by at the wire, and on the output: a desperate and just barely sufficient 80 on the LifeLiner Spread. He made it in, and he won at $79.20. What are you gonna do? Second-touted Subtle Indian took the seventh at $37.40, again via a marginally qualifying LifeLiner Speed Column analysis of 80 and a similarly sketchy LifeLiner Spread Column analysis of 81. A Dual Qualifier, though! Though not along the lines of Rapid Lightning in Gulfstream 3. Four horses touted in the finale, and they accounted for the winning $156.20 Bonkers Exacta Box. Obviously, both the top-two finishers had bona fides in LifeLiner Speed Column or LifeLiner Spread Column or both. Arkansas!

PennNat (3/2) — Uh-oh. Late-double ($1,224 for $2) was easily makeable. Race 7 had King Touch at $42.80, LifeLiner Spread Column-capable at 87 in a shapeless race. No problems. Race 8 found Ifrit coming through at $31.60, and he had one of ’em absolute-minimum 80 on the LifeLiner Speed Column analysis. Good enough.

Santa Anita (1/⅜) — Race 7 was a 20-1 upset, and if you were a strict V6 Betting Line contentious-race raider, you had the second-rated Swift Lady, 6-1 Fair Odds and 15-1 on the morning line, without any undue stress. And the cretins such as ourselves, the strict constitutionalists LifeLiner Speed & Spread Column analysts, were left holding thin air. It happens. If you had ’er, good work!

Sunland (1/1) — Quick Time surprised the sixth, and the $45-even win mutuel was OK on the LifeLiner Spread Column analysis, though the race was not contentious.

Tampa (1/0) — Namestnikov hat-trick includes OT winner.

Turfway (1/0) — Aroldis Chapman now ready to assume some of ’em New York Values.

WMF Report:

Early
Gulf 6f
Mahoning 6f
Tampa 6f
Turf Paradise 6f

Nocturnal Submission: Sifting through the wreckage…

Thank you. Best wishes. Goodbye. Drive safely.