HiddenEntries (A Wholly Owned Cynthia Publishing Company Subsidiary Blog)

Many happy returns today to step-grandson, Mistah Leo Richard Mitchell, who hits the big 5 today! Five! Half a decade! Time is flying…

All true. Most of the time when someone shakes off this mortal coil, there’s a good mix of reaction: some wailing & rending of garments, some tearing out of hair; some celebrating & anticipating when the interment might be undertaken (!) so that dancing on the grave can begin straight away. But for this gentlemen, the late, great Larry Lederman, there’s only one proper course of reaction: sadness, and then smiling upon remembering all the chuckles & laughs his racecalls would give you. All over, the reaction to Mr. Lederman’s passing has been the same as the one that Richard Lewis’s death generated earlier this week. R.I.P. to the true GOAT announcer. Thank you for taking the mickey out of public-address commentating at the racetrack.

Another caning administered by your No. London Arse, this one resulting in a 6-nil flaying of host Sheffield United yesterday. The video lede here shows the Gunners’ third goal, registered just past the 15-min. mark and scored by Gabriel Martinelli, who was set-up on a cheeky no-look cutback by Jakub Kiwior. #COYG

Nat’l Grammar Day now. We were brought-up & educated to stan the Oxford comma, or the serial comma; however, the old-timey sensibilities of U.S. American advertising & journalism rackets whipped that way of punctuation right out of us. Nonetheless, we do not deny the disambiguation the Oxford comma provides.

Yeah, so we were so busy flogging The 2024 BestLine Racing Society Membership Drive that we forgot to (or, more accurately, could not get around to) posting our usual Friday-night Video Song of the Week. So here it is now. Ladies & gentlemen, the unforgettable Al Hirt (another trumpeter from New Orleans!) & the equally unforgettable Arthur Fiedler in collaboration with the eternal Boston Pops Orchestra.

Big ’Cap tomorrow! Do it…

Big weekend of racing going on. Take a look from a different perspective…

Now the racing is starting to get serious: Keeneland! Horseshoe Indy! Evangeline! Last round of Kentucky Derby prep-races. All included in this week’s weeklong access…

Well, when she puts it like that…

Wednesday!