First Post: Thursday, January 5, 2023

What? No precip?!

After a drippy & dreadful Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday, we look for a clear & dry Friday. Huzzah!

Some other things we never thought we’d experience in the years since 1987:

• The ability to grow any facial hair, let alone a full beard
• Eleven appearances on national television without the need for a SAG / AFTA card
• Physical fitness levels eclipsing anything achieved during the 1980s through the 2010s
• Tennis multiple times a week? Tennis multiple times a week! Multiple times a week! (Again, F pickleball. F that.)
• Love for SoCal / La-La Land after years of being a hardcore East Coast / Philly-type skeptic
• Along those lines, actually rooting for your La-La Land Los Doyers
• Letting go of the compulsion to wear residential-school trad clothing all the time

Those are the biggies; doubtless there are many others. But one thing that never goes away: pursuing the racing! Racing!

BestLine Racing Society Recap:

Aqueduct & Gulf from the early window.

Low-octane day with only #4 Gasoline (.245 Win Prob / 3.08-1 Fair Odds / 3.90-1 Premium Odds) able to power to winner’s circle, in the fifth at Aqueduct, at $10.20.

BestLine Racing Society Nightcap:

Again, Turfway.

Strongshots

Race 2
#2 Happysecret (.475 / 1.11 / 1.53)

Race 4
#12 Arlyne’s Crown (.241 / 3.15 / 3.98)

Longshots

Race 1
#6 Nordic Light (.243 / 3.12 / 3.94)
#8 Command Central (.187 / 4.35 / 5.42)
#9 B G Lee (.183 / 4.46 / 5.56)
#1 Lead Actor (.129 / 6.75 / 9.85)

Race 3
#6 Dudley (.189 / 4.29 / 5.35)
#5 Chief Howcome (.147 / 5.80 / 7.16)
#7 Shotgun Joe (.138 / 6.25 / 7.70)
#9 Barstow (.130 / 6.69 / 9.77)
#8 Benny Boo Boo (.120 / 7.33 / 10.67)
#1 Valley Vista (.109 / 8.17 / 11.84)

Cover ground quickly by sprinting all-out — play real tennis! See you on the court.