First Post: Saturday, March 12, 2016

Good afternoon now.

Free ones: Rundown…

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

Pay-side (Weekend/Weekday): Today…

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

Today’s Stakes Pageantry: Aqueduct 8, Gulf 7, 11, Santa Anita 9, 11 are on the free page. Pay-side has Laurel 6, Oaklawn 8, Tampa 8, 10, 11, Turfway 6, Turf Paradise 1, 5.

Should be OK for the prohibitively favored #4 Sophia’s Song in Laurel 8.

Rillito now…Rillito! In Race 6, we tiptoe around the morning-line fave and go with #8 Count Your Money, #5 Miss the Traffic, #6 Thundersgold instead. That’s Rillito. Make a note of it.

Yesterday’s Activity:

Track (Win Mutuels $20+/Gettable)

Aqueduct (0/0) — Knickerbockers lose to host Clippers, 101-94; Kristaps Porzingis led the New Yorkers with 23 pts.

Chas. Town (0/0) — W. Va. Mountaineers upset Oklahoma, 69-67, in Big 12 men’s hoopball semifinal; up next: finals showdown vs. Kansas.

Delta (3/1½) — After the very late scratch of Bonkersmate Rulers Honour in the opener, the eventual winner, Tonto M, $23-even, really should have been a replacement Bonkersmate: the race was contentious, and Tonto M ended up as a Dual Qualifier (80, 87); he went gate-to-wire to win by 3½. Regrets! Then in Race 6, Old-School Overlay Playas would have had no option but to get down with Painting the Sky, $29.60, top of the conventional V6 Betting Line in an ultra-contentious race, Fair Odds of 5-1; ’Sky had no LifeLiner numbers in support, but High-Octane Chancers and Old-School Champeens would have been undeterred. Good job.

Fair Grounds (1/½) — Here’s Clearly Cheating in Race 9, contentious-shaped old-timey Betting Line, Fair Odds of 4½-1, real-life odds of 9½-1. What do all the classic texts on the subject tell you to do? Of course! Make the win wager! This was back in the days before newfangled monstrosities such as LifeLiner Speed Column and LifeLiner Spread Column analyses! Hoo-boy. Result for the Old-School Champeens? A $21-even win payoff. N.B. Tulane Green Wave scores the late-game upset over Houston; as a reward for winning, Head Coach Ed Conroy will be fired at the end of the season. What are you gonna do?

Fonner (0/0) — Nebraska falls to Maryland in Big Ten men’s hoopball quarterfinal game; Andrew White had 25 pts. in the loss.

Golden Gate (0/0) — Warriors drub visiting Trail Blazers, 128-112; Golden State’s Klay Thompson poured-in 37.

Gulf (1/0) — Heat get romping road win over Bulls, 118-96; Pau Gasol led Chicago with 17 pts., 12 rebounds and 9 assists. ’grats.

Hawthorne (0/0) — Stars turnback visiting Blackhawks, 5-2; Jason Spezza had a goal and an assist in the win.

Los Alamitos (0/0) — Visiting Ducks surrender 4 in 3rd period to Blues in 5-2 loss; St. Louis’s Vladimir Tarasenko scored twice and added an assist.

Laurel (1/0) — Wizards get drubbed on the road to Jazz, 114-93; John Wall scored 24 for Washington.

Oaklawn (2/0) — AP: Hot Springs St. Pat’s Day Parade organizers ask participants and spectators to keep event nonpartisan.

PennNat (0/0) — Philalala Flyers compelte home-and-home sweep with 3-1 road win over Lightning; Brayden Schenn had a goal in the victory.

Santa Anita (1/1) — Easy get for even the Low-Octane Sputterers in Race 5, courtesy of Wildfire Kid, $25.40; no public tout forthcoming, owing to the low 6-1 morning-line odds. However, the race was contentious, and the 98 in the LifeLiner Speed Column analysis on ’Kid would have been more than enough to light the spark. As always, hope you had ’im.

Sunland (1/1) — Contentious race in the finale, and Bourbon Blue Bayou was always going to be among the contenders via a nice 83 on the LifeLiner Spread Column analysis. ’Bayou won by three parts of a length at $20-straight.

Tampa (2/0) — See PennNat commentary.

Turfway (1/0) — UK Wildcats larrup ’bama, 85-59, in SEC men’s hoopball quarterfinal; Jamal Murray contributed 23 pts. in the win.

WMF Report:

Early
Aqueduct 6f
Fair Grounds 6f
Los Alamitos 4½f
Santa Anita 6f
Turf Paradise 6f

Nocturnal Submission: Sifting through the wreckage…

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