Where the rubber meets the road, where the hoof meets the rubber — thanks, synthetics! The surfaces underfoot for your Friday.<\/p>\n
Ah, Belmont<\/strong> now gets up to triple-digits at 6f, WMF 104. <\/p>\n Looks good for the lead in sprints at Beulah<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Only one 6f race at Calder<\/strong> this afternoon, but it’s a WMF 177.<\/p>\n Oops! No 4½f this evening at Chas. Town<\/strong>; however, the 6½f fills in nicely at WMF 172.<\/p>\n Still sorting things out at the Delta<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Finger<\/strong> flirting again with the threshold at 6f, WMF 142 now.<\/p>\n Golden Gate<\/strong> nondescript, unlike Matt Cain & the Boyzzz.<\/p>\n Mayor Daley stepping down to pursue new career wagering on closers at Hawthorne<\/strong>‘s 1 1\/16m, WMF 18.<\/p>\n Under the lights at Oak Tree at Hollywood Park<\/strong>, WMF 46 at 6f.<\/p>\n You know it’s bad for the front at Keeneland<\/strong> when the highest WMF is WMF 100 at 1 1\/2m on turf. Incroyable!<\/em><\/p>\n Nearly as bad is the Los Alamitos at El Rancho de Wessels<\/strong>, WMF 180 at 4½f.<\/p>\n Laurel<\/strong> is up to you. Same with the Mountain<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Even PennNat<\/strong> is undecided.<\/p>\n Extremes at the Pha<\/strong>, the racetrack currently known as Rosa Parx<\/strong>: WMF 377 at 6f, WMF 7 at 7f.<\/p>\n Continued zOMG at Remington<\/strong> on the main track, which all early-speed-and-pace-types should boycott on principle.<\/p>\n Thistledown<\/strong> is an open issue.<\/p>\n Sprints go to the leaders at Turf Harbor at Sky Paradise<\/strong>.<\/p>\n And they should just call Woodbine<\/strong> Remington North.<\/p>\n Best wishes! Book ’em, Danno! R.I.P., James MacArthur. Scotty Caan is OK, but there’s only one Dannie Williamsz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Where the rubber meets the road, where the hoof meets the rubber — thanks, synthetics! The surfaces underfoot for your Friday.<\/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":[3],"tags":[9,6],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wmf","tag-free","tag-track-bias"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pavW5M-2T","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","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=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions\/180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}