First Post: Sunday, January 17, 2016

Yeah, the middle day of any three-day long weekend is the one that gets the least coverage. Regrets!

Free ones: Rundown…

Aqueduct 9
Gulfstream Park Proper 10, 11
Santa Anita 4, 5, 7, 9

Pay-side (Weekend/Weekday): Today…

Fair Grounds 7, 8
Golden Gate 6, 8
Oaklawn 6, 7, 8, 9
Tampa 10
Turfway 6, 9

Today’s Stakes Pageantry: Santa Anita 7 on the free page. Pay-side has Oaklawn 8.

Yesterday’s Activity:

Track/(Win Mutuels $20+/Gettable)

Aqueduct (1/0) — King Henrik of Lundqvist pulls out all the stops in OT and the SO, stones Flyers and give Blueshirts the bonus point.

Chas. Town (2/1) — Race 3 winner Scythe was an easy make, second-best on the contentious, conventional Betting Line at 3-1 Fair Odds along with the top LifeLiner Spread Column rating in the field; gate-to-wire.

Delta (3/1) — Race 6 had $22.20 Tinc up top in a contentious race at 3-1 Fair Odds, with a backing LifeLiner Speed Column number to match.

Fair Grounds (2/1) — High-octane chancers with the ability to go deep (read: no Fair Odds) on the Betting Line and with an OK connections-line (13pc/13pc/N/A) got the $68.80 winner in Race 3. A slight stretch, but nothing that high-octane, maybe, like 89 instead of 91 or Sunoco Ultra 93.

Golden Gate (0/0) — How ya’ doin’ over there?

Gulf (1/1) — Boalt Hall (a k a UC Berkeley School of Law) won the finale at $21.20 but should not have been anywhere like that price. The connection-line numbers were fantastical (24pc/20pc/26pc) and only a 4-1 morning line kept him from being an obvious tout. Sorry.

Sam Houston (2/0) — Just missed in the finale, via a LifeLiner Speed Column analysis number of 79 in a contentious race; no Fair Odds assigned, but just missed there, too. Hoo-boy.

Los Alamitos (1/0) — Zika virus the next media-friendly epidemic; are you a vector?

Laurel (1/1) — Oh, no. Race 8 winner Sonny Inspired had the highest (94) LifeLiner Speed Column analysis rating in the field! How is this possible! How was he not a public selection? The Betting Line dynamic suggested there was a strong top pick in the race, thus excluding it from contentious status. Hoo-boy. Very bad. But for the high-octane chancers out there, this was not a hard choice, nowhere near a stretch.

Mahoning (1/1) — Yup, this one, Peace and Serenity, $24.80 in Race 2, slipped by too, for any number of reasons. She was never going to be a publicly touted issue, owing to 6-1 morning line odds (remember, we make the arbitrary cutoff of 8-1), and owing to a seemingly strong top pick (not Peace and Serenity) on the conventional Betting Line in a noncontentious race. Nevertheless, Peace and Serenity would have been among the contenders, courtesy of his 87 in the LifeLiner Spread column analysis.

Oaklawn (2/0) — Opening Day good, Day 2 the oppo.

PennNat (0/0) — Phillie Sick-Sirs blow out Portland in the Big-League Hoopball; stricter cannabis laws blamed.

Santa Anita (2/1) — Race 6 had $34.80 Analog Girl pulling the publicly touted upset. Hope you had ’er!

Sunland (2/1) — Race 6 debut issue Side Street Kafe was top of everything, good connection line, just the low morning line prevented him from being a for-real selection. You would have had ’im.

Tampa (2/1) — Yeah, Race 2 had Glory Style grabbing just that in the second at $30.20. The race was classically contentious, and even though ’Glory was at the absolute bottom of the old-school Betting Line, the new-wave LifeLiner Spread Column analysis gave her a pass with an 80. In Race 6, the 23-1 was beyond our ken. Regrets.

Turfway (1/0) —

Turf Paradise (0/0) — How ’bout dem CARDS!

WMF Report:

Early
Tampa 6f
Turf Paradise 6f

Nocturnal Submission: Sifting through the wreckage…

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