{"id":6475,"date":"2014-05-16T14:22:10","date_gmt":"2014-05-16T21:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/?p=6475"},"modified":"2014-05-16T14:22:10","modified_gmt":"2014-05-16T21:22:10","slug":"first-post-friday-may-16-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/2014\/05\/16\/first-post-friday-may-16-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"First Post: Friday, May 16, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Many happy returns!<\/p><\/div>\n

Belated birthday wishes to young Samuel Alexander Mitchell. Yea, verily, he’s got a quarter-century of living to his credit by now. Damn if the years do not fly by! <\/p>\n

Free<\/a> ones<\/strong>: Rundown…<\/p>\n

Belmont<\/strong> 3<\/em>, 4<\/em>, 6, 8, 9
\nGulf<\/strong> 3
\nSanta Anita<\/strong> 3, 6<\/em>, 7<\/em><\/p>\n

Pay-side<\/strong>: Today…<\/p>\n

Arlington<\/strong> 3, 5, 8
\nBelTerra<\/strong> 6<\/em>, 8<\/em>
\nChurchill<\/strong> 6, 10<\/em>
\nGolden Gate<\/strong> 1, 2, 4
\nLouisiana<\/strong> 7<\/em>
\nLone Star<\/strong> 3, 7, 8
\nWoodbine<\/strong> 2, 6, 7<\/em>, 9<\/p>\n

Today’s Stakes Pageantry<\/strong>: Seven at the Pimlico, but many of those have lost their initial lustre through wet weather and many scratches. Oh, well. <\/p>\n

Away from Bawlamer, Canterbury<\/strong> in Minnehaha opens tonight, and #7 Heliskier<\/strong> is one of ’em Triple Threat Horseys in Race 6<\/strong>. Uh-oh. Now what?<\/p>\n

Also a Triple Threat Horsey is #1 Aintgotno Home in PrM 8. However, ’Aint is third-choice on the morning-line, so you might get a price. Yow!<\/p>\n

Yesterday’s Activity<\/strong>: Compact day, but a good one nonetheless.<\/p>\n

First, as always, Welcome to The Home of The Runner-Up Finish, this time nearly led by sole-touted Big Special in the eighth at Lone Star.<\/p>\n

Big Special, 8-1 on the morning line but bet-up to a fantastical 27-1, was second on your conventional V6 Betting Line, 4-1 Fair Odds in a contentious race, and was a solid 86 on the LifeLiner Speed Column analysis.<\/p>\n

Big Special, was not really close at the end, beaten 4¾ lengths in a second-place finish, rallying hard. The winner was your 50¢-to-the-dollar fave, your gate-to-wire winner, complete LifeLiner array of 97-99-97. <\/p>\n

Half-a-dollar on top of 27-1 for your exacta, and it somehow pays $56.20 in an eight-horse field. That’s pretty good.<\/p>\n

Now to some winners. Nightcap at Arlington found Battle Facts, 9½-1, coming through at $21-even up top. Yea, verily, this made it a KING OF THE NETCAPPER BULLIESZ SPECIAL. Yeah!<\/p>\n

Battle Facts won by a dirty nose, hanging on grimly all the way around, and the horse he beat was 17-1 and just could not get by, a real hanging-type effort. Battle Facts was 20-1 on the morning line.<\/p>\n

‘BelTer-ra, Ter-ra, Whatever Will Be, Will Be…’ and the future was seen in sharp focus, for a change, by the touters, namely us, of the great Bonkersmate Guilded Reward in Race 7.<\/p>\n

Guilded Reward, also 20-1 on the morning line, was bet-down even harder than Battle Facts, all the way to 7.70-1, good for a $17.40 win mutuel straight. Guilded Reward, ignored on the Betting Line in a contentious race but blessed with the second-top Life Liner Speed Column analysis in the field, drew away at the end for a nearly 4-length win.<\/p>\n

Windy&rsqu;s Gone was your Race 1 winner at Louisiana, and your sole-touted horsey in the race. Windy’s Gone, 1½-1 (!) on your V6 Betting Line as the second-top horse there, also did just enough on the LifeLiner Speed Column analysis, 80. The morning line on ’Windy was 10-1 but she got away at 14-1, 14.20-1 really, and paid $30.40-straight to win by 1 length over your 40¢-to-the-dollar fave, who was the other Fair Odds 1½-1 horse in the race and the top LifeLiner Speed Column analysis runner. The dead-nuts cold-puncher’s perfecta box paid $44-even.<\/p>\n

Finally, all eyes are on Pimlico this week, and Thursday brought us sole-touted Cork County in Race 5, $29.80 to win.<\/p>\n

Cork County, Fair Odds of 5-1 as the second-choice on the V6 Betting Line in a contentious race, got away at 13.90-1. Cork County, complete LifeLiner array of 85-83-95 and first or second in each of the Early, Pace and Speed Columns of the LifeLiner analysis, ran gate to wire to win by 3 lengths.<\/p>\n

The 8-5 fave, the top LifeLiner Speed Column analysis horsey in the field, ran second, completing the $80.60 exacta. <\/p>\n

As always, hope you had ’em!<\/p>\n

WMF Report<\/strong>: <\/p>\n

Early<\/em>
\nArlington<\/strong> 6f
\nChurchill<\/strong> 1 1\/16m
\nChas. Town<\/strong> 4½f, 6½f
\nEmerald<\/strong> 5½f, 6f
\nEvangeline<\/strong> 6f
\nIndiana<\/strong> 5½f
\nLos Alamitos<\/strong> 4½f
\nNorthlands<\/strong> 6f (WMF 419)
\nPennNat<\/strong> 6f
\nPrairie<\/strong> 6f
\nSanta Anita<\/strong> 6f<\/p>\n

Nocturnal Submission<\/strong>: Sifting through the wreckage…<\/p>\n

Thank you. Best wishes. Goodbye. Bye-bye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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