Nat’l Radio Day today. Here’s a TV spot from one of the formative stations of our childhood.
KYW-AM 1060. KYW Newsradio Ten-Sixty on your A.M. dial. Except now you can also find it locally on FM-103.9 and the world over on one of those streaming collectives. A Philadelphia institution.
They always played that canned teletype sound under the announcer’s messages. From this station, we learned to listen for a lot of different things: news, current events, politics, world affairs sports, weather, traffic. We took-in terms like ‘gaper block’, ‘Delaware Valley’, ‘PATCO High-Speed Line’, ‘The Tacony-Palmyra Bridge’, ‘Penn Relays’, ‘Dad Vail Regatta’, ‘Franklin Field’, ‘JFK Stadium’, ‘Eugene Ormandy’, ‘Valery Giscard d’Estaing’, so many others.
When racing was a legit thing, before the casinos and all the other forms of casual wagering came into play, the results and prices from Keystone, Liberty Bell, Brandywine and Atlantic City would be announced at :15 and :45, after the major sports news. When place paid the same as or more than win, or when show paid the same or more than place, the announcer always intoned afterwards ‘and that’s OK’. So you might hear something like, ‘And the fifth race at Keystone was won by Pyramid Zotts…four-twenty, two-sixty, two-sixty and that’s OK…’
BestLine Racing Society Recap:
Six different locations this afternoon: Monmouth, Gulf, Saratoga, Woodbine, Del Mar and — would you believe? — Century Mile.
The opener at Monmouth had winner #7 Trilogy (.289 Win Prob / 2.14-1 Fair Odds / 2.77-1 Premium Odds) and runner-up #1 Analyzethisandthat (.289 / 2.46-1 / 3.15) combining for a valuable $27.40 exacta whose premium price was $23.75.
Race 2 there had #6 Above Par (.220 / 3.55 / 5.36) winning at an overlayed $13.60.
Race 10 there found #10 Cabinet Pik (.151 / 5.62 / 6.95) prevailing at a better-than-premium $24.80.
At Woodbine, it was #7 Big Band Luzziann (.189 / 4.29 / 5.35) paying $19.10 to win. The exacta with runner-up #4 Endorphin Rush (.173 / 4.78 / 7.09) returned $163.60, or nearly twice as much as the premium price of $86.56.
Good times in the opener at Century Mile with #8 El Noble (.181 / 4.52 / 6.73) winning at $16.40.
Also there, in the second: #1 Shorty the Swede (.284 / 2.52 / 3.23) paid $9.20. The daily double on Races 1 & 2 returned $89.30; its premium price was $65.39.
BestLine Racing Society Nightcap:
St. Louis Derby this evening at Fairmount Park, so we’re going to Southern Illinois now. KMOX-AM the big station there, CBS affiliate, clear-channel, and once in a while, during the hot summer months, a little before sunrise and just after, you could pull it down on an analog radio dial with just the right touch, all the way from South Jersey. Insane. You could also pull KMOX-AM down in the evening even if you were in New Orleans just about nightly.
Strongshots
Race 4
#6 Khozie’s Ghost (.535 / 0.87 / 1.24)
Race 5
#2 Hallie’s Rainbow (.455 / 1.20 / 1.64)
Longshots
Race 2
#1 Hidenseek Sally (.387 / 1.58 / 2.10)
#2 Watchin the Wheels (.320 / 2.13 / 2.75)
Race 7
#1 W W Hotshot (.318 / 2.14 / 2.77)
#4 Mark of the Z (.229 / 3.37 / 5.11)
The Derby goes as Race 6, and we have it down to the top two morning-line faves. Regrets! What are you gonna do?
