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Belated birthday wishes to Kevork the Rocky Mountain Spotted Retriever visiting from Yerevan; he turned 1 yesterday. He had a combined paw-tay with his niece Gilligan Dog over here in sunny Studio City on Sunday.
Several of their closest pals were in attendance, and pupsicles also were served. This is the future of the ’murrikan service sector right here — petcare. Plus fetishized coffee & ale. Also, cosplay. Not to mention fantasy and e-sports. And you should probably include vaping and shadow-economy gigs such as personal transport and food delivery. What about self-promotion? Right — almost forgot the SOcial MEdia!
On the other hoof, there are stylish anachronisms that deserve preserving, such as the one-handed topspin backhand, the manual automotive transmission (three on the tree even better!), the voluminous, full cut of the Brooks Bros. oxford-cloth button-down shirt, the strong, nonironical cocktails at Musso & Frank, the substantial fit in the hand of a Zippo, etc. And, most of all, serendipity! We all should have a little unprogrammed grace in our lives. Certainly! Bourgeois? Maybe! Who can say?
All right, then. There was a conflict yesterday in Belmont 5. It wasn’t really a contentious race on the Betting Line (Fair Odds of 2½-1 on the ‘A’ Horse, then all the way out to 4½-1 on the next choice); however, the LifeLiner had eight of the nine entrants in with at least one 80-plus score on either of the LifeLiner Speed Column analysis or the LifeLiner Spread Column analysis. The conventional way, the race was not contentious; the newfangled way, it was.
Here’s Street Shark (not to be confused with the great harness star Shark Street) getting the stalking-horse trip and inheriting the lead when the 28-1 frontrunner calls for a Lyft inside the furlong-grounds. The ’Shark hangs on to win by a clean neck at $55.50. The ‘A’ horse fave runs second at 3-1, with the perfecta returning $319 for $2. What are you going to do?
That said, Finger 5 shapes up as an intriguer, not a big price, but the morning-line fave is a true headscratcher. Also ready to be upset is Mountain 7.
New-track alert! New-track alert! The always weird Portland Meadows comes online today. Do your best.
On the other hoof, Zia today is not strange at all. It looks like it should have more than a few morning-line faves prevailing. If you can get two of the three chalk issues home in Races 1, 2 & 4, you’ll be ahead for your day, actually. It sounds hard, but risk is everywhere. Serendipity in the planned existence!
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