First Post: Friday, March 3, 2017

Not big Grateful Dead fans, probably owing to all the young Reaganites at L’ville in the early-to-mid-1980s enjoying them so much but not really having the hippie ethos/bona fides to back it up — even back then the smell-test and dreck-detector were working OK! Oh, well.

‘Shake the hand that shook the hand of P.T. Barnum and Charlie Chan…’

Free ones: Rundown…

Aqueduct 5, 6
Gulfstream Park Proper 5, 10, 11
Santa Anita 4, 8

Pay-side (Weekend/Weekday): Today…

Fair Grounds 2, 5, 9
Golden Gate 4, 7
Hawthorne 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9
Sam Houston 2, 3, 10
Laurel 6
Oaklawn 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9
Tampa 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10
Turfway 3, 5, 7

Today’s Stakes Pageantry: One tonight at Delta, nothing from this corner. Regrets! Or maybe not.

Yesterday’s Activity:

Track (Win Mutuels $20+/Gettable)

Chas. Town (0/0) — NAACP Berkeley Co. ‘Peace & UNITY’ gathering set for Saturday in Martinsburg.

Delta (0/0) — Cameron Parish fisherman say crab-trap ban causing them hardship.

Fair Grounds (0/0) — Neighbors complain of rash of car break-ins in New Orleans East.

Golden Gate (0/0) — Visiting Warriors lose to Chicagoland, 94-87; The City’s Steph Curry led all scorers with 23 pts.

Gulf (1/1) — Race 4 was not contentious, but High-Octane Chancers and Progressive-Minded Eggheads caught Dual Qualifier Katinka (91, 92); she went gate-to-wire to win by 1 at $22.60. Good work.

Oaklawn (0/0) — Fmr. Ark. State Sen. Jon Woods (R.-Springdale) is indicted on money-laundering fraud charges.

PennNat (0/0) — Host Flyers edge Fla. in shootout, 2-1; newly acquired Valtteri Flippula scored Philalala’s regulation-time goal.

Santa Anita (2/0) — Host Kings edge Toronto in shootout, 3-2; Anze Kopitar and Tanner Pearson were La-La Land&rsquos; regulation-time goalscorers.

Turfway (2/0) — Newly insured Kentuckians worry about ACA repeal.

WMF Report:

Early
Chas. Town 4½f, 6½f
Fair Grounds 6f
Gulf 5f (T)
Los Alamitos 4½f
PennNat 6f
Turfway 6f

Nocturnal Submission: Sifting through the wreckage…

Thank you. Best wishes. Goodbye. ‘Wave that flag, wave it wide and high…’