{"id":7256,"date":"2014-08-23T11:53:59","date_gmt":"2014-08-23T18:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/?p=7256"},"modified":"2014-08-23T11:53:59","modified_gmt":"2014-08-23T18:53:59","slug":"first-post-saturday-august-23-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/2014\/08\/23\/first-post-saturday-august-23-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"First Post: Saturday, August 23, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2ZdOxeIWfXc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The South takes what the North delivers. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Wm. Mulholland, flowers bloom in Los Angeles, away from their natural habitat; he engineered L.A. out of its desert origins.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cynthiapublishing.com\/pick.html\">Free<\/a> ones<\/strong>: Rundown&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Saratoga Race Course<\/strong> 2, 4, 7, 11, 13<br \/>\n<strong>Gulf<\/strong> 4, <em>5<\/em>, 6, 7, <em>8<\/em>, 11<br \/>\n<strong>Del Mar Thoroughbred Club<\/strong> 6, 7, <em>8<\/em>, 9<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pay-side<\/strong>: Today&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Arlington<\/strong> 8, 9<br \/>\n<strong>BelTerra<\/strong> <em>4<\/em>, 5<br \/>\n<strong>Delpark<\/strong> <em>4<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Ellis Park<\/strong> 5, <em>7<\/em>, 8<br \/>\n<strong>Golden Gate<\/strong> <em>7<\/em>, 8<br \/>\n<strong>Louisiana<\/strong> 2, <em>6<\/em>, <em>8<\/em>, 9<br \/>\n<strong>Monmouth<\/strong> 7, <em>8<\/em>, <em>9<\/em>, <em>11<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Remington<\/strong> <em>2<\/em>, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9<br \/>\n<strong>Suffolk<\/strong> 5, 8, 9<br \/>\n<strong>Woodbine<\/strong> 1, 2, 4, <em>6<\/em>, 7, 9<\/p>\n<p><strong>Today&rsquo;s Stakes Pageantry<\/strong>: Del Mar Thoroughbred Club 8, Saratoga Race Course 11 on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cynthiapublishing.com\/pick.html\">free<\/a> page.<\/p>\n<p>On the pay-side it&rsquo;s <strong>Monmouth 11<\/strong>, <strong>Remington 8<\/strong> and <strong>Woodbine 4<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Big day at the drying-out <strong>Swampatoga Race Course<\/strong>, and it&rsquo;s tough to look past the two obvious horseys, <strong>#2 Bayern Munchen<\/strong> and <strong>#6 Tonalist<\/strong>. They are running in <strong>Race 12<\/strong>, which is your 2014 <strong>Travers<\/strong>, a Grade 1 affair, right?<\/p>\n<p>Seems clear for <strong>#9 Daring Kathy<\/strong> in <strong>Woodbine 8<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>If you thought Saratoga had big racing today, please, please, please check out the even more wild activity going on in the Land of Enchantment, Albuqerque, N.M., a safe haven for non-methamphetamine takersz now that the White Klan have been shorn of their death-dealing patriarch, one Mistah Walter. Yeah.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Race 5<\/strong> there looks good for the dynamite duo of <strong>#6 Lady Genius<\/strong> and <strong>#4 That&rsquo;s the Idea<\/strong>. Open in the <strong>eighth<\/strong>, and <strong>#4 Gotta Move<\/strong> has as good an opportunity as any of the rest of &rsquo;em. Likewise the <strong>ninth<\/strong> for longshot <strong>#9 Cowboy&rsquo;s Rule<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Over to the <strong>Assiniboia<\/strong> now for its <strong>fourth<\/strong>, likely won by <strong>#10 Going Once<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Columbus<\/strong> now, which is in Nebraska, for <strong>Race 7<\/strong>: <strong>#3 Spice Swirl<\/strong>. Obvious horsey.<\/p>\n<p>Returning to Canada now for <strong>Race 2<\/strong> at <strong>Marquis<\/strong>, in which <strong>#3 Mr. Kalypso<\/strong> is another obvious horsey. Probably the same story for <strong>#4 She&rsquo;s Nifty Two<\/strong> in the <strong>fourth<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Would have covered the two scheduled added-money grass events set for the Keystone State, but they were washed-off. Sorry! Pity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Yesterday&rsquo;s Activity<\/strong>: As always, Welcome to The Home of The Runner-Up Finish, this time nearly led by top-touted Stay Positive (!) in Race 6 at Golden Gate.<\/p>\n<p>Stay Positive, second-choice on the conventional V6 Betting Line at Fair Odds of 4&frac12;-1 in a contentious race, scored at the Top of the LifeLiner Speed Column analysis, 99.<\/p>\n<p>Stay Positive, 20-1 on the morning line and 30-1 in real life, ran to her complete LifeLiner array of 82-68-99 in closing like the champion he was on his way to becoming, actually leading late before losing by a dirty head. <\/p>\n<p>The horse with the second-best LifeLiner Speed Column analysis rating, 98, was your race winner at 10&cent; shy of 7-1, thereby putting your saver exacta in play; it paid $284.20, for $2.<\/p>\n<p>Also experiencing the thrill of beating all the horses except for one and thereby suffering the agony of close-defeat was sole-touted Brandon&rsquo;s Way in the eighth at Louisiana.<\/p>\n<p>Brandon&rsquo;s Way, disregarded by the conventional V6 Betting Line, nonetheless was one of three LifeLiner Speed Column analysis qualifiers in the field; Brandon&rsquo;s Way had an 85 there.<\/p>\n<p>He ran to his complete LifeLiner characterization of 81-98-85, attending the front-flight throughout and leading in the straight before decelerating to be beaten 3 lengths for the win. He was 12-1 on the morning line and 60&cent; shy of an even 20-1 on the toteboard.<\/p>\n<p>Over at the Monmouth, though, it was one race touted, one race won.<\/p>\n<p>That was in the eighth, courtesy of top-touted Fort Boonesborough, second-best on the V6 Betting Line at Fair Odds of 5-1 in a contentious race. Fort Boonesborough also registered OK on the LifeLiner Speed Column analysis, 84.<\/p>\n<p>Fort Boonesborough ran to his LifeLiner array of 95-96-84 in breathing down the leader&rsquo;s neck all the way around en route to winning by a grim half-length at $29.80, a bet-down mutuel from his 20-1 on the morning line.<\/p>\n<p>First Bonkersmate Andrew L, 10-1 on the morning line and 40&cent; shy of 15-1 when the bell rang, completed the winning Bonkers Exacta Box: $391-even, for $2. <\/p>\n<p>Indeed, the first four spots were filled by LifeLiner Speed Column qualifiers, with the trizacta returning $1,921 (for $2) and the super-duper coming back $3,434.50 (for $1).<\/p>\n<p>As always, hope you had&rsquo;em.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WMF Report<\/strong>: <\/p>\n<p><em>Early<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Delpark<\/strong> 5&frac12;f, 6f<br \/>\n<strong>Del Mar Thoroughbred Club<\/strong> 6f<br \/>\n<strong>Ellis Park<\/strong> 6f<br \/>\n<strong>Indiana<\/strong> 6f, 1m<br \/>\n<strong>Los Alamitos<\/strong> 4&frac12;f<br \/>\n<strong>Northlands<\/strong> 6f<br \/>\n<strong>PennNat<\/strong> 6f<br \/>\n<strong>Keystone<\/strong> 6f<br \/>\n<strong>Suffolk<\/strong> 6f<br \/>\n<strong>Thistle<\/strong> 6f<\/p>\n<p><em>Rally<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Gulf<\/strong> 1 1\/16m (T)<br \/>\n<strong>Woodbine<\/strong> 1 1\/16m<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nocturnal Submission<\/strong>: Sifting through the wreckage&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Thank you. Best wishes. Goodbye. 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