First Day of May. First Tuesday in May. Are you already succumbing to Derby Hype 2018?
It’s a Hype-Industrial Complex these days, have you noticed? Do you know how many broadcast hours and column-inches were devoted to this year’s Big-League ’murrikan Gridiron Throwball Draft like months and months ahead of it? Do you know?
Now, we are supposed to rein-in our resentments right about now, but it’s hard, Chollie, way-hard. We have allowed the World & Its Peoples to Dominate Us, and it shows up in all our resentments, past and current. Ugh. These things like incessant Hype-Industrial Complex coverage of the NFL Draft are not supposed to get to us, if we are to recover, but they cause niggling resentments nonetheless. It’s hard to have sobriety of any kind in this day and age of Hot Takes & Constant Indignation & Self-Righteousness. Relieve us of the Bondage of Self! Amen. Please deliver us from outsourcing our emotions and reactions. We do not have to get caught up in the hubbub. Deliver us, St. Francis. Please. Thank you. Amen.
Fleet Frontrunners
NONE
Fast Final-Furlong Phantasms
NONE
Favorable Faves*
Churchill 3, 5
Fairmount (!) 6, 7
Keystone 3
Thistle 1, 3
The WRD 5, 11
Mountain† (!) 7
Freakazoid Factories
Indiana 8
Mountain† (!) 1
*-morning-line faves only, including those bumped-up to morning-line-favorite status after accounting for raceday scratches and changes, which are current as of 12:39 p.m. EDT; no-go if race switches surface or if any part of coupled-entry scratches; your mileage may vary
†-raceday scratches & changes unavailable at press-time; (R+M)/2 method
YESTERDAY’s Fine Finishes‡
Finger 1
Keystone 9
Turf Paradise 7
‡-High-Octane Chancers doin’ it exclusively with All-In-One V6 and its LifeLiner Speed Column analysis and LifeLiner Spread Column analysis, without regard to operational definitions of faves or freakazoids; thank you!
Take it easy.
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