{"id":12317,"date":"2016-12-23T12:28:12","date_gmt":"2016-12-23T20:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/?p=12317"},"modified":"2016-12-23T12:28:12","modified_gmt":"2016-12-23T20:28:12","slug":"first-post-friday-december-23-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/2016\/12\/23\/first-post-friday-december-23-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"First Post: Friday, December 23, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MaA7B9cu4kU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Ladies &#038; gentlemen, the incomparable Stevie Wonder&#8230; <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cynthiapublishing.com\/pick.html\">Free<\/a> ones<\/strong>: Rundown&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gulfstream Park Proper<\/strong> 5, 6, <em>8<\/em>, <em>9<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pay-side (<a href=\"http:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/mm5\/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&#038;Store_Code=THS&#038;Product_Code=WLLS&#038;Category_Code=\">Weekend<\/a>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/mm5\/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&#038;Store_Code=THS&#038;Product_Code=WLL1&#038;Category_Code=\">Weekday<\/a>)<\/strong>: Today&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fair Grounds<\/strong> <em>2<\/em>, 4<br \/>\n<strong>Hawthorne<\/strong> 4, 6<br \/>\n<strong>Laurel<\/strong> <em>4<\/em>, <em>5<\/em>, <em>7<\/em>, <em>8<\/em>, <em>9<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Tampa<\/strong> 4, 5, <em>8<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Turfway<\/strong> 1, <em>3<\/em>, <em>5<\/em>, <em>6<\/em>, <em>7<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Today&rsquo;s Stakes Pageantry<\/strong>: None today, but it&rsquo;s the holiday present every Big-League Hoopball fan in the Valley of The Sun could have hoped for: the 7-win Philalala 76ers invade Phoenix to take on the 8-win Suns; each team already has 21 losses. Hoo-boy. On the other hoof, the brick output from this scintillating contest will help BUILD THAT WALL. TEN FEET HIGHER. DRAIN THE SWAMP. CON MAN WINS. U-S-A! U-S-A! Then again, at least we are not in the Philippine Islands &mdash; for now, anyway.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Yesterday&rsquo;s Activity<\/strong>: <\/p>\n<p>Track (Win Mutuels $20+\/Gettable)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chas. Town (1\/0)<\/strong> &mdash; Back Creek Valley church completes purchase of African misison land.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Delta (2\/1)<\/strong> &mdash; Race 7 was contentious amongst the experienceds, and Hunter&rsquo;s Humor was agreeable to all comers: Fair Odds of 5-1, 84 on the LifeLiner Spread Column analysis. He went gate-to-wire to win by 1&frac12; at $27.80. Good work.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fair Grounds (2\/0)<\/strong> &mdash; Krystal closes 5 La. locations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gulf (2\/0)<\/strong> &mdash; Host Panthers lose to Boston, 3-1; Jaro Jagr, still in the league, assisted on the Fla. goal and is now 2nd on the all-time points list. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Hawthorne (2\/2)<\/strong> &mdash; The opener was not contentious, but High-Octane Chancers and Progressive-Minded Eggheads bought the ticket for Annie&rsquo;s Showtime, 88 on the LifeLiner Speed Column analysis; she was a stalking-horse throughout before winning by 6 at $28-even. In the next race, also not contentious and also available only to High-Octane Chancers and Progressive-Minded Eggheads, Captain&rsquo;s Mast was deemed seaworthy with the field-best 89 on the LifeLiner Spread Column analysis; he was toward the front throughout, winning by 3 parts of a length at $44.20. The natural daily double paid $326 (for $2). Good work.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PennNat (2\/0)<\/strong> &mdash; Bad night for the Big-League Ice-Hockey clubs from the Keystone State. Visiting Flyers blanked by Nueva Hersey, 4-nil, and visiting Peng-a-wins larruped by Cls., 7-1. Penna.&rsquo;s lone goal was scored by Sidney Crosby, his 23rd on the season. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Turfway (0\/0)<\/strong> &mdash; Mt. Zion Rd. expansion slated for Boone Co.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WMF Report<\/strong>: <\/p>\n<p><em>Early<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Tampa<\/strong> 6f<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nocturnal Submission<\/strong>: Sifting through the wreckage&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Thank you. Best wishes. Goodbye. Take care now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ladies &#038; gentlemen, the incomparable Stevie Wonder&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,4,5,3],"tags":[8,13,7,6],"class_list":["post-12317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-picks","category-stakes","category-wmf","tag-analysis","tag-commentary","tag-longshots","tag-track-bias"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pavW5M-3cF","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12317"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12322,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12317\/revisions\/12322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}