First Post: Thursday, February 4, 2016

ALF. Yup. The autobahn in Oxnard. Surely he’s cruising to some Kraftwerk in this clip.

No matter the language, ALF ist lustig. ALF ist rad.

Free ones: Rundown…

Aqueduct 6, 7, 8
Gulfstream Park 6, 8, 9, 11
Santa Anita 3, 5, 8

Pay-side (Weekend/Weekday): Today…

Golden Gate 2, 5
Oaklawn 3
Turfway 1, 2, 4, 5, 9

Today’s Stakes Pageantry: None today, but the Freeway Faceoff 2016 Redux takes place this evening as the Anaheim Ducks of Mighty Orange Co. zoom up I-5 (or, if you are in SoCal, simply ‘The 5’) to invade Staples Center for a showdown against their fiercest rivals, the Los Angeles Kings of Downtown Los Angeles. Drew Doughty, the ladies love him.

Yesterday’s Activity:

Track (Win Mutuels $20+/Gettable)

Chas. Town (1/0) — O. J. Simpson.

Delta (1/0) — Bernie Madoff.

Gulf (2/1) — In the Race 2 upset, Dual Qualifier Rock All Day (80, 81) was in front all the way ’round at $35.20. Probably not contentious enough for the public tout, but high-octane chancers would have gotten it.

Mahoning (1/0) — Jep & Jessica.

PennNat (1/1) — I Feel Luckie (great spelling there!) won Race 4 at $52.60. The race was not contentious on the conventional Betting Line, but ’Luckie (great spelling again!) had enough skill in the LifeLiner Spread Column analysis, 83. No public touting conceivable, but high-octane chancers had to have nailed it; had to.

Tampa (3/2½) — One of the two (Wild Covey, Race 7, $29.60) was indeed a public (pay-side) tout. ’Covey was a Dual Qualifier (82, 88). In Race 2, first-timer surprise Buster Rocks was also attainable via the connections-line: 14pc/10pc/N/A, good enough in a contentious race — especially at real-life odds of 22-1. Sorry, but the earliness of this Race 2 post time (9:55 a.m. PST — yawn!) kept this one out of the pay-side. Apologies. In-between, Race 5’s Peggy N Judy, $22.40, was another debut shocker, atop the conventional V6 Betting Line at Fair Odds of 3½-1; however, the connection-line numbers were off in the Trainer-Jockey comboa (comboa!) column, so only half-a-get could be rewarded. Still, the Old Guard V6 players, some of them also high-octane chancers, were duly rewarded.

Turf Paradise (2/1½) — Bad Luck in Race 4. Publicly third-touted Prince of Paris crossed the wire in front of the rest at 20-1; but ’Paris was disqualified to fourth. Boo! Half-a-get. In Race 5, no public tout could have been made on Checkoutmyman, owing to low 5-1 morning-line odds. But Checkoutmyman was a Dual Qualifier (99 (!), 85) and went off at 11-1. The $25.40 win mutuel was easily snared by even low-octane, two-stroke-engine, caution-loving non-chancers. Really.

WMF Report:

Early
Aqueduct 6f
Delta 6½f
Santa Anita 6f, 1m

Nocturnal Submission: Sifting through the wreckage…

Thank you. Best wishes. Goodbye. Drive safely.