{"id":5729,"date":"2014-01-12T11:25:49","date_gmt":"2014-01-12T19:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/?p=5729"},"modified":"2014-01-12T11:25:49","modified_gmt":"2014-01-12T19:25:49","slug":"first-post-sunday-january-12-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/2014\/01\/12\/first-post-sunday-january-12-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"First Post: Sunday, January 12, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S-OhAVjXFLQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Time to close out Malkmus Weekend. Enjoy your Sunday! <!--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> <em>8<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Calder<\/strong> \/ <strong>Gulf<\/strong> Calder <em>4<\/em>, 6, Gulf <em>5<\/em>, <em>7<\/em>, 8, 9<br \/>\n<strong>Santa Anita<\/strong> 5<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pay-side<\/strong>: Today&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fair Grounds<\/strong> <em>1<\/em>, 7, 8<br \/>\n<strong>Golden Gate<\/strong> 1, 5, 7, <em>9<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Oaklawn<\/strong> 2, 4, <em>5<\/em>, 6, 9<br \/>\n<strong>Sunland<\/strong> 9<br \/>\n<strong>Tampa<\/strong> 5, 8, 9<br \/>\n<strong>Turfway<\/strong> 6, 8<\/p>\n<p><strong>Today&rsquo;s Stakes Pageantry<\/strong>: Aqu 3 has already gone off. In it, #5 Mamdooha was one of &rsquo;em Triple Threat Horseys. He won and paid $6.10 up top. When ya snooze, ya looze!<\/p>\n<p>Neither that bad luck nor a prediction for the day&rsquo;s other stakes, in Race 7 at Santa Anita. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Yesterday&rsquo;s Activity<\/strong>: As always, Welcome to The Home of The Runner-Up Finish, this time led by Second Bonkersmate UNITEd States Won in the finale at Gulf. <\/p>\n<p>UNITEd States Won, 12-1 on the morning line and bet down to 10-1 in real life, was buried toward the bottom of the V6 Betting Line in a contentious-race configuration; however, he was in the lineup for second-best LifeLiner Speed Column score (93) in the field, and had the lead in deep stretch before yielding by a neck late.<\/p>\n<p>The race winner was, interestingly, a Triple Threat Horsey: top of the Betting Line, farthest-out &lsquo;X&rsquo; on the Pace Graph and top LifeLiner Speed Column number (98) among the 12 entrants. So the saver exacta was quite in play at a respectable $96.20, for $2, 4-1 over 10-1. <\/p>\n<p>As well, the show-horse was the top-touted Kid Lightning, 10-1 on the morning line and 11-1 on the toteboard. The trizacta returned 80&cent; shy of $500, for $1. <\/p>\n<p>The 7-5 fave rounded-out the super-duper; this fave was tied with UNITEd States Won for second-best LifeLiner Speed Column score in the field, with the superperfecta coming back $2,562.10, for $1. <\/p>\n<p>The fifth horsey in the superquintapenta also qualified on LifeLiner Speed Column, odds of 8-1, and that crazy hyperexotical wager paid $14,730.60, for $1. These are exciting possibilities.<\/p>\n<p>Also running with honour in defeat was sole-touted Designer in the second at Santa Anita. He got beat a dirty head at 13-1, up from a morning line of 10-1.<\/p>\n<p>Designer was top of the V6 Betting Line and the farthest-out &lsquo;X&rsquo; on the Pace Graph and the highest-rated issue on the LifeLiner Speed Column ratings (98). He led part of the way and mixed it up pretty good in the lane, losing by about 1 or 2 feet of distance. Pity.<\/p>\n<p>Even more pity would be doled out in the seventh at Turf Paradise. Top-touted Sun City scratched, which left lone Bonkersmate Margo&rsquo;s Delight in as the surviving recommendation. <\/p>\n<p>Margo&rsquo;s Delight, buried at the bottom of the V6 Betting Line in a contentious-race configuration but with the second-best LifeLiner Speed Column score (88) in the field, was 12-1 on the morning line and an even 30.00-1 when the bell rang. She made the front at the quarter-pole and kept leading for another furlong after that. She could not withstand the winner, succumbing by a lousy length.<\/p>\n<p>After all that, there were some winners to mention. <\/p>\n<p>Sole-touted Cuppy Cake ate up the sixth at Tampa, paying $11.80 up top. The race was wildly contentious &mdash; only three of the 10 horseys entered received Fair Odds on the V6 Betting Line, and those three were listed by the software at 6-1 apiece! &mdash; and Cuppy Cake was fifth of 10 on the Betting Line, no Fair Odds. <\/p>\n<p>However, Cuppy Cake did have the second-best LifeLiner Speed Column score (87) in the lineup, and she closed well to draw off by 3&frac14; lengths at the wire. <\/p>\n<p>Sole Bonkersmate Kiss Moon went gate-to-wire in Race 7 at Oaklawn. He paid $21.20 straight.<\/p>\n<p>Kiss Moon somehow got to the front, battled for a while, then opened up by 9&frac12; by the time he made the finish line. He was 10-1 on the morning line and tied for best LifeLiner Speed Column score in what the Betting Line considered a random-type race. <\/p>\n<p>Finally, it took four touted horseys in Race 8 at Tampa, but the money was gotten nonetheless. <\/p>\n<p>A bunch of first-timers contested this one, and one of them was 12-1 morning-line hopeful Saturday&rsquo;s Light. Saturday&rsquo;s Light, Fair Odds of 5-1 as the fifth-ranked horsey on the V6 Betting Line, had the requisite connection line we like to see for a debut runner: 15pc\/17pc\/18pc. Saturday&rsquo;s Light went off at that 12-1 and closed to win by 1 length at the wire at $27.60.<\/p>\n<p>Top-touted Rock &rsquo;n Roman, the lone experienced horsey in the field to get the qualifying 80-plus mark on the LifeLiner Speed Column ratings, was bet-down to 5-1 from a morning line of 8-1. The exacta, for $2, paid $215-even. Some crazy 46-1 upstart with a poor connection-line completed the trizacta, which eluded us. Sorry.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WMF Report<\/strong>: <\/p>\n<p><em>Early<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Los Alamitos<\/strong> 4&frac12;f<br \/>\n<strong>Keystone<\/strong> 6f<br \/>\n<strong>Portland<\/strong> 6f<br \/>\n<strong>Santa Anita<\/strong> 6f<br \/>\n<strong>Sunland<\/strong> 1m<\/p>\n<p><em>Rally<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Golden Gate<\/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>Time to close out Malkmus Weekend. 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