{"id":6550,"date":"2014-05-25T11:23:38","date_gmt":"2014-05-25T18:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/?p=6550"},"modified":"2014-05-25T11:26:01","modified_gmt":"2014-05-25T18:26:01","slug":"first-post-sunday-may-25-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/2014\/05\/25\/first-post-sunday-may-25-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"First Post: Sunday, May 25, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eeMbx2LzwFc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Another melodic ditty, another subversive message! <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cynthiapublishing.com\/pick.html\">Free<\/a> ones<\/strong>: Rundown&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Belmont<\/strong> <em>4<\/em>, 8<br \/>\n<strong>Calder<\/strong> \/ <strong>Gulf<\/strong> Calder <em>6<\/em>, 8, Gulf 6, 8<br \/>\n<strong>Santa Anita<\/strong> 5<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pay-side<\/strong>: Today&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Arlington<\/strong> 3, <em>8<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>BelTerra<\/strong> <em>2<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Churchill<\/strong> <em>6<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Golden Gate<\/strong> 5<br \/>\n<strong>Louisiana<\/strong> 4, <em>6<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Lone Star<\/strong> 4, <em>6<\/em>, <em>7<\/em>, 9<br \/>\n<strong>Monmouth<\/strong> <em>1<\/em>, 7, <em>8<\/em>, 10, 11<br \/>\n<strong>Pimlico<\/strong> <em>1<\/em>, 5, <em>9<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Woodbine<\/strong> 4, <em>5<\/em>, 8, 9, 10<\/p>\n<p><strong>Today&rsquo;s Stakes Pageantry<\/strong>: <strong>Bel 8<\/strong> on the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cynthiapublishing.com\/pick.html\">free<\/a><\/strong> page. <strong>Mth 11<\/strong> on the pay-side, along with <strong>WO 5<\/strong> &#038; <strong>8<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SA 7<\/strong> seems open, but <strong>#6 Sky High Gal<\/strong> emerges as one of &rsquo;em Triple Threat Horseys nonetheless. We report, you decide!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ruidoso 10<\/strong> has <strong>#1 Hard to Resist<\/strong> probably running to that billing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Yesterday&rsquo;s Activity<\/strong>: As always, Welcome to The Home of The Runner-Up Finish&#8230;with a twist!<\/p>\n<p>Too many to analyze thoroughly (CD 1, 3, LaD 3), but how &rsquo;bout that Pim 9?<\/p>\n<p>We touted the great Green Wave Girl on the Black-Eyed Susan undercard last week, but those races were washed off the turf. She came back yesterday, 10&cent; shy of a full 30-1 on your Baltimore toteboard, and &mdash; what else? &mdash; ran second, beaten 1 length to the 3-1 public second-choice. Yes, we touted her again. Top-touted Green Wave Girl. Tulane #1 alwayszzz! Delbarton #1 alwayszzz! Hahahahhahahaha!<\/p>\n<p>We always recommend against betting such longshots to place-and-show, but there are those rare occasions where they pay 42-1 to show!<\/p>\n<p>It happened yesterday, via the &frac12;-1 fave finishing sixth of eight horses. You know the score: this unbeatable Thoroughbred took $20M to show (or something like that!) and when her unfortunate big-backer did not collect his 5 percent on investment, they divvied up that $20M (or something like that!) amongst the surprised (and delighted!) place-and-show ticketholders on the horseys that did run 1-2-3.<\/p>\n<p>The winner paid $8.20, $8.00 and $16.60 (&lsquo;that&rsquo;s OK&rsquo;); Green Wave Girl paid $28.60, and $85.80 (&lsquo;that&rsquo;s OK&rsquo;); the show-horse paid $56.80 (&lsquo;that&rsquo;s OK&rsquo;). &lsquo;All prices OK.&rsquo;.<\/p>\n<p>(Yes, the prices were OK, but the reference in this instance is to when they used to read the race results over the air on the AM radio, mainly the all-news, all-the-time stations, and they would read the prices across-the-board, and when the place- or show-price paid more than the win-price, or when the show-price paid more than the place-price, the announcer would have to assure the listener that the seemingly erroneous place- or show-price was, in fact, &lsquo;OK&rsquo; and not some error over the wire or an electronic seizure by the ticker. So, that&rsquo;s the history lesson for today: &lsquo;Twenty-eight-sixty to place, EIGHTY-FIVE-EIGHTY to show&#8230;THAT&rsquo;s OK&rsquo;. That&rsquo;s the old-timey romance of that story. There&rsquo;s also old-timey romance of the sports pages of the major daily newspapers carrying racing results and entries from all over North America, but that&rsquo;s another story for another time.)<\/p>\n<p>We cannot predict any such circumstances with this sort of accuracy; however, playing the old-fashioned way, Green Wave Gal was playable in the backup spot of the exacta, with the 3-1 winner was OK on the LifeLiner Speed Column analysis. That exacta paid $120.60.<\/p>\n<p>As well, the third-place finisher was the only other LifeLiner Speed Column analysis, so the LifeLiner Speed Column analysis had the trizacta amongst its three contenders (80-plus score on the LifeLiner Speed Column analysis), and the trizacta paid $701.80, for $2.<\/p>\n<p>As for the sixth-place &frac12;-1 bridgejumper&rsquo;s lament, only fourth-best on the LifeLiner Speed Column analysis.<\/p>\n<p>So, yes, straw-graspers, maybe you could have figured out that this $20M (or something like that) show-pool was one of those rare instances in which your $85-and-change show-price was eminently reachable.<\/p>\n<p>Many ways to make money in this race. Hope you did!<\/p>\n<p><strong>WMF Report<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><em>Early<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Emerald<\/strong> 6f<br \/>\n<strong>Hastings<\/strong> 6&frac12;f<br \/>\n<strong>Los Alamitos<\/strong> 4&frac12;f<br \/>\n<strong>Mountain<\/strong> 5f, 6f<br \/>\n<strong>Monmouth<\/strong> 6f<br \/>\n<strong>Keystone<\/strong> 1m<br \/>\n<strong>Presque<\/strong> 6f<br \/>\n<strong>Prairie<\/strong> 6f<br \/>\n<strong>SunRay<\/strong> 4&frac12;f, 6&frac12;f<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nocturnal Submission<\/strong>: Sifting through the wreckage&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Thank you. Best wishes. Goodbye. So long now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another melodic ditty, another subversive message!<\/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":[11,4,5,3],"tags":[8,13,7,6],"class_list":["post-6550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-picks","category-stakes","category-wmf","tag-analysis","tag-commentary","tag-longshots","tag-track-bias"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pavW5M-1HE","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6550","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=6550"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6562,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6550\/revisions\/6562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}