{"id":28780,"date":"2026-05-15T16:44:56","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T23:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/?p=28780"},"modified":"2026-05-15T16:45:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T23:45:00","slug":"first-post-friday-may-15-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/2026\/05\/15\/first-post-friday-may-15-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"First Post: Friday, May 15, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Many happy returns \u2014 literally & figuratively!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Happy Birthday (No. 37!) to the gentleman pictured in today\u2019s snapshot lede. He started out in the shipping dep\u2019t. over here at Cynthia Publishing Co., way back when, and it appears he\u2019s done OK for himself since then \u2014 no lasting psychological or emotional damage sustained, unlike some of us others who continue to shuffle around in a shellshocked daze! Just kidding \u2014 maybe! At any rate, mazel!<\/em> Yom huledet samecha etc.!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Housekeeping!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One late-issue from Wednesday<\/strong> evening: #6 Bati King<\/strong> (.214 Win Prob \/ 3.67-1 Fair Odds \/ 4.47-1 Premium Odds) crowned himself a winner in your Race 6 finale<\/strong> from Assiniboia<\/strong> at $12.20<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yesterday (Thursday<\/strong>) some of the races went this way…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At Chas. Town, W.Va.<\/strong>, #5 Fine Whining<\/strong> (.194 \/ 4.15 \/ 5.19) couldn\u2019t complain about the outcome in Race 2<\/strong> at $18.60<\/strong>. In Race 4<\/strong> there, #6 Cedar\u2019s Estate<\/strong> (.166 \/ 5.02 \/ 6.05) landed in the winner\u2019s circle at $35.20<\/strong>; #2 El Rabano<\/strong> (.167 \/ 4.99 \/ 6.01) completed your winning $164.80 exacta<\/strong> whose premium price was $84.82.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At Stickney, Ill.<\/strong>, #4 Nagy and Da Bears<\/strong> (.240 \/ 3.17 \/ 4.00) won Race 2<\/strong> for the Monsters of The Midway at $15.60<\/strong>; #6 Mr. Sweets<\/strong> (.257 \/ 2.89 \/ 3.55) completed your winning $42.40 exacta<\/strong> whose premium price was $36.40. In Race 4<\/strong> there, #2 Gift Giving<\/strong> (.332 \/ 2.01 \/ 2.43) was the recipient of a victory at $6-even<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At Laurel, Md.,<\/strong> #2 Hell Ofa Hillbilly<\/strong> (.286 \/ 2.50 \/ 3.20) won it for the ridgerunners in Race 2<\/strong> at $8.60<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At Grantville, Penna.<\/strong>, #4 Quasi Warrior<\/strong> (.210 \/ 3.76 \/ 4.71) turned out to be a real one in Race 6<\/strong> at $11-even<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now to today (Friday<\/strong>), from what\u2019s already been contested at press-time…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back to Grantville<\/strong> for the opener<\/strong>, in which #3 For Some Reason<\/strong> (.336 \/ 1.98 \/ 2.48) finished first just-because at $8-even<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At Etobicoke Int\u2019l<\/strong>., #8 Sobiech<\/strong> (.235 \/ 3.26 \/ 3.98) won Race 4<\/strong> for The Clouds at $11.40<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stretching the free ones out to the shank of your Friday evening now, via Chas. Town<\/strong> & Century Mile Thoroughbreds<\/strong>…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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New BestLine Output: 15May26 9CT<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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New BestLine Output: 15May26 6CTM<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Happy Birthday (No. 37!) to the gentleman pictured in today\u2019s snapshot lede. He started out in the shipping dep\u2019t. over here at Cynthia Publishing Co., way back when, and it appears he\u2019s done OK for himself since then \u2014 no … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pavW5M-7uc","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28780","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=28780"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28788,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28780\/revisions\/28788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}