First Post: Saturday, February 27, 2016

First books, next papers…

If the GOP frontrunner can’t shut down the free press by brute force with jackboots and billy clubs, he’ll simply threaten litigation to beat them into submission. Lovely.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/02/26/donald-trump-threatens-to-sue-media-outlets-as-president-with-me-theyre-not-protected/

Wonder how a staunch ‘Constitutional Originalist’ such as Atty. Gen.-designate Christy Christy feels about this! Anton Scalia? Who’s that again?

John Adams: ‘a government of laws, and not of men’. Well, hey, not of men, either, but ONE VERY SPECIAL MAN, THE GREATEST MAN EVER. Even the disengaged Oblahblah isn’t this thin of skin, this fragile of ego. Oblahblah aired his grievances with the media, surely, but he wasn’t so insecure as to shake them down for a few dollars, or to roll back history 229 years to soothe his hurt feelings. A fact. As Casey Stengel might have put it, ‘You could look it up’. MIKE BLOOMBERG-GARY JOHNSON 2016.

Free ones: Rundown…

Aqueduct 6, 9
Gulfstream Park Proper 9, 10, 11, 13
Santa Anita 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

Pay-side (Weekend/Weekday): Today…

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

Today’s Stakes Pageantry: Gulf 9, 11, Santa Anita 6 on the free page. Pay-side includes Fair Grounds 7, 9, Sam Houston 6, 7, 8, 10, Oaklawn 8.

Exercising our First Amendment Free-Speech Rights to embarrass ourselves and earn the public’s scorn (yet again!) with the wild longshot #9 Daddy’s Song in Fonner 9. That’s Fonner Park in Grand Island, Neb. Make a note of it.

Sunland was good yesterday, so trying again today via the cold-puncher’s box-up of #2 Desert Stepper and #4 My Dandy Girl in Race 9.

Yesterday’s Activity:

Track (Win Mutuels $20+/Gettable)

Aqueduct (0/0) — Carmelo Anthony pours-in 19 in Knickerbocker 108-95 home victory over Magic.

Chas. Town (1/0) — Dem. political hopeful and The Greenbrier proprietor Jm. Justice fined $1.23-million for contempt of court.

Delta (2/1) — Race 4 winner Yesjan scrapes by with an 80 in the LifeLiner Spread Column analysis; in a contentious race, it’s good enough for a $20.20 mutuel up top.

Fair Grounds (1/0) — Eric Gordon returns to Pelicans’ starting lineup on Saturday against T’wolves.

Fonner (1/0) — Nebraska City mother convicted of child abuse for having her boyfriend force her two sons to watch ‘Mommie Dearest’.

Golden Gate (1/1) — Raven Ridge pays $30.20 in the fourth; the race was not contentious, but ’Raven was a Dual Qualifier (94-88) on the LifeLiner Speed Column and LifeLiner Spread Column analyses. High-Octane Chancers would have had no option but to win here.

Gulf (0/0) — Kansas mass-shooter Cedric Ford had nearly a dozen arrests in Broward and Miami Dade Cos. from 1996 to 2004.

Sam Houston (0/0) — Six arrested after five game rooms raided; $200k seized.

Los Alamitos (1/0) — Richard Rakell nets gamewinner 1:24 into overtime in Ducks’s 2-1 home win over Oilers.

Oaklawn (1/0) — Former ThermoEnergy Corp. CFO Andrew Thurman Melton found guilty of mail fraud and tax charges.

PennNat (2/1) — Dimension paid $33.40 in his upset of Race 3. Again, this race was not contentious, but Dimension was a Dual Qualifier (92-88), and the odds would have been irresistible to High-Octane Chancers.

Santa Anita (0/0) — Jakers lose 49th game of season, 112-95 to visiting Grizzlies.

Sunland (1/0) — Northbound I-25 open again after fatal rollover crash.

Tampa (1/0) — Goalie Bishop can’t be beat, makes 21 saves in 4-0 blanking of host Devils.

Turfway (2/0) — Lenten Friday Fish Fry goes awry in Erlanger; 3 sent to hospital with minor injuries.

WMF Report:

Early
Chas. Town 6½f
Fair Grounds 6f
Sam Houston 6f
Los Alamitos 4½f
PennNat 6f
Santa Anita 6f, 6½f

Nocturnal Submission: Sifting through the wreckage…

Thank you. Best wishes. Goodbye. Read safely while you still can.