{"id":3276,"date":"2013-02-02T13:00:18","date_gmt":"2013-02-02T21:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/?p=3276"},"modified":"2013-02-02T13:00:18","modified_gmt":"2013-02-02T21:00:18","slug":"first-post-saturday-february-2-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/2013\/02\/02\/first-post-saturday-february-2-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"First Post: Saturday, February 2, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EPwtNm5pfqE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Apropos of the day of the week.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cynthiapublishing.com\/pick.html\">Free<\/a> ones<\/strong>: Rundown&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Aqueduct<\/strong> 2, 5<br \/>\n<strong>Gulf<\/strong> 6, <strong>9<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Santa Anita<\/strong> <strong>5<\/strong>, <strong>7<\/strong>, <strong>9<\/strong>, <strong>10<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/mm5\/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&#038;Store_Code=THS&#038;Product_Code=WLLS&#038;Category_Code=\">Pay-side<\/a><\/strong>: Today&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tampa<\/strong> <strong>5<\/strong>, <strong>8<\/strong>, <strong>10<\/strong>, 11<br \/>\n<strong>Turfway<\/strong> <strong>4<\/strong>, <strong>6<\/strong>, 7, <strong>8<\/strong>, <strong>9<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Oaklawn<\/strong> 4, 6, 9<br \/>\n<strong>Turf Paradise<\/strong> 4, 5, <strong>7<\/strong>, <strong>8<\/strong>, <strong>9<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Sam Houston<\/strong> <strong>6<\/strong>, 8<br \/>\n<strong>Golden Gate<\/strong> <strong>5<\/strong>, 6, <strong>7<\/strong>, 8<\/p>\n<p><strong>Today&rsquo;s Stakes Pageantry<\/strong>: <strong>Fair Grounds<\/strong>. Fair Grounds? Is it safe to go back there today? No washed-off-the-lawn racing there today? Sometimes they try to trick you with the late-scratches and say the races are on the turf but then you go over there and it&rsquo;s all main-track. Is it safe? Either way, <strong>both features<\/strong> look chalky. You know who the horseys are.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Santa Anita 9<\/strong> on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cynthiapublishing.com\/pick.html\">free<\/a> page. Prior to that, mild upset in store in <strong>Race 4<\/strong> via <strong>#3 Den&rsquo;s Legacy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tampa 11<\/strong> on the <a href=\"http:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/mm5\/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&#038;Store_Code=THS&#038;Product_Code=WLLS&#038;Category_Code=\">pay-side<\/a>. Ditto <strong>Turfway 7<\/strong> &#038; <strong>9<\/strong>. And <strong>Turf Paradise 8<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Delta<\/strong>! No turf course there, so that part of Luzianne is safe from bait-and-switches regarding the racing surface. <strong>Race 1<\/strong> has <strong>#6 Hit the Road Lee<\/strong> in for a small surprise. Crazy trizacta box opportunity in <strong>Race 7<\/strong>: <strong>#7 Indian Road<\/strong>, <strong>#4 Unbridled&rsquo;s Score<\/strong>, <strong>#1 Palmy Bay<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Yesterday&rsquo;s Acvitity<\/strong>: All right, all right. A day after the $244-plus-11-1 longshot winner at the Santa Anita, the East Coast tracks got in on the action for your Friday. <\/p>\n<p>Gulf had a nice 14-1 tease who ran second (&ldquo;as always, Welcome to The Home of The Runner-Up Finish!&rdquo;) in Race 5. Decisive Moment topped both the V6 Betting Line and was competitively place in LifeLiner, 12-1 on the morning line. Alas, 3-1 Beau Choix (also 3-1 on the morning line, also a qualifier on LifeLiner), took the race; the saver perfector with a live winner and a well-placed (literally) longshot was a reasonable $133-and-change, roughly 10X more than the $13.80 place price. <\/p>\n<p>It was even more contentious in the eighth there, with second-pick on the Betting Line Ephyra (tops on the LifeLiner!) scoring at 11&frac12;-1, a shade below her 12-1 morning line. <\/p>\n<p>The other two Gulf issues were the no-hopers the public said they were, at 27-1 and 50-1.<\/p>\n<p>At The Big A, the first two recommendations were nowhere near the wire at the finish. Not entirely unexpected, given their 13-1 and 20-1 odds in a pair of six-horse fields. No wonder it&rsquo;s so difficult to get excited at Jamaica Bay!<\/p>\n<p>But the excitement was in full effect in the seventh, a grab-bag of a mid-to-low claiming race for 10 evenly matched horseys. One of them was a 20-1 morning-line chancer named Victorious Leader. The public was not impressed, casting him off as the eighth-choice in the betting, at 41-1. Another cuckoo (cuckoo, cuckoo!) pick from the <em>non compos mentis<\/em> touters at Cynthia Publishing Company, Studio City, Calif., where it&rsquo;s now Pilot Season. Even though the race was wildly up-in-the-air, they named just the single shot, the lone Victorious Leader. And why not? He was top of the LifeLiner. <\/p>\n<p>Yow! A screaming $85.50 winner, Allah bless the nickel breakage in New York State! Pilot Season! Pilot Season! Pilot Season! Some extra coin of the realm to impress the would-be starlets at the hot downtown Studio City speakeasies like Firefly and Page 71. Yow! Eighty-five-fifty! Pilot Season! Firefly! Page 71! Xen Lounge, which is more on the outskirts of town! Yow! Yow! Yow! zOMG! Cazart! Yow! Yow! Yow! Laurel Tavern! Pilot Season! Yow! <\/p>\n<p>Sorry, but no good in the finale at Ozone Park or all day at Arcadia, Calif. Sorry.<\/p>\n<p>Stakes action at Turf Paradise in Race 8, and a dynamic duo-type Bonkers Boxersz situation arose involving Jamaican Memories (pass the kouchie!) and Streakin&rsquo; Mohican. To be fair, the former was the top selection with the latter being the Bonkersmate. The Bonkersmate won, $15.20 off an 8-1 morning line, and the top boy was not close. <\/p>\n<p>Sorry, all the others on the pay-side were fruitless stabsz. Regretsz.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WMF Report<\/strong>: <\/p>\n<p><em>Early<\/em><br \/>\nAqueduct 6f<br \/>\nPennNat 6f<br \/>\nTampa 6f<\/p>\n<p><em>Rally<\/em><br \/>\nTampa 1 1\/16m (T)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nocturnal Submission<\/strong>: Steppin&rsquo; out in the Commonwealth of Penna. for <strong>Race 3<\/strong> at <strong>PennNat<\/strong> (6:54 p.m. EST \/ 3:54 p.m. PST); there, <strong>#6 Bob&rsquo;s Place<\/strong>, <strong>#1 Tapps<\/strong>, <strong>#9 My People<\/strong> and <strong>#8 Thunder Rock<\/strong> are not as hopeless as most of the mopes suspect. <\/p>\n<p>Thank you. Best wishes. Goodbye. 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