{"id":7488,"date":"2014-09-20T11:55:51","date_gmt":"2014-09-20T18:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/?p=7488"},"modified":"2014-09-20T11:55:51","modified_gmt":"2014-09-20T18:55:51","slug":"first-post-saturday-september-20-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/2014\/09\/20\/first-post-saturday-september-20-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"First Post: Saturday, September 20, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, how ya&rsquo; doin&rsquo; over there? <!--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> 4, 5, 6, <em>7<\/em>, <em>9<\/em>, 10<br \/>\n<strong>Gulf<\/strong> 4, 6, 8, <em>9<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Los Alamitos Thoroughbreds<\/strong> 2, 3, 7<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pay-side<\/strong>: Today&#8230;\t \t<\/p>\n<p><strong>Arlington<\/strong> 4, 9<br \/>\n<strong>BelTerra<\/strong> 2, <em>4<\/em>, 7<br \/>\n<strong>Churchill<\/strong> 4, 7, 10<br \/>\n<strong>Delpark<\/strong> 8<br \/>\n<strong>Louisiana<\/strong> 1, <em>3<\/em>, <em>5<\/em>, <em>7<\/em>, 8<br \/>\n<strong>Laurel<\/strong> 3, 6, <em>9<\/em>, 10<br \/>\n<strong>Monmouth<\/strong> <em>4<\/em>, 8<br \/>\n<strong>Retama<\/strong> 1, 2, 5, <em>6<\/em>, 7<br \/>\n<strong>Remington<\/strong> <em>6<\/em>, 7<br \/>\n<strong>Woodbine<\/strong> 5, 9, <em>10<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Today&rsquo;s Stakes Pageantry<\/strong>: Hard to deny <strong>#6 Seeking the Sherif<\/strong> in <strong>Los Alamitos Thoroughbreds (LRC) 8<\/strong>. Same goes for <strong>#4 Pender Harbour<\/strong> in <strong>Woodbine 8<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Assiniboia 7<\/strong> has <strong>#3 Drink M. Pretty<\/strong> in with a longshot hope.\t \t<\/p>\n<p>Big twi-night 10-header stakes card at <strong>Chas. Town<\/strong> &mdash; huge. In <strong>Race 2<\/strong>, <strong>#9 My Sister Caro<\/strong> gets the nod. In <strong>Race 4<\/strong>, <strong>#3 Flirting Song<\/strong> is a contender. In <strong>Race 5<\/strong>, <strong>#5 Lamontagne<\/strong> deserves favouritism; likewise <strong>#4 Greenway Court<\/strong> in the <strong>seventh<\/strong>. In <strong>Race 8<\/strong>, we tiptoe around the morning-line fave and prefer <strong>#2 Dimples<\/strong>, <strong>#6 Chrome Mine<\/strong>. <strong>#6 Smash and Grab<\/strong> can do just that at nice odds in the <strong>ninth<\/strong>. To end added-money activity, a four-horse doozie in the <strong>11th<\/strong>: <strong>#1 Stormy Novel<\/strong>, <strong>#6 Pixie Dust<\/strong>, <strong>#5 Honey&rsquo;s Ryan<\/strong>, <strong>#4 Executive Allure<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Also big doings at <strong>Northlands<\/strong>, and in <strong>Race 6<\/strong>, <strong>#9 Ginger Smash<\/strong> has the <em>bona fides<\/em>. Same goes for <strong>#2 R Valentino<\/strong> in the <strong>seventh<\/strong>. And in the <strong>10th<\/strong>, <strong>#6 Pick a Prize<\/strong> is not out of it.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, it&rsquo;s the Greatest Day of Thoroughbred Racing in Penna. History, and they need star power from California to make it happen. Phillie! <strong>Keystone<\/strong>! In the <strong>ninth<\/strong>, <strong>#11 Starry Moon<\/strong> has a shot. <strong>#8 Untapable<\/strong> is the obvious horsey in the <strong>11th<\/strong>. And in the headliner <strong>12th<\/strong>, <strong>#2 Candy Boy<\/strong> is the upset candidate, though your two standout runners, also figure.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Yesterday&rsquo;s Activity<\/strong>: How &rsquo;bout that Roger Goodell? If Bashar al-Assad can hunker down and ride out the tide after all these years, the fair-haired Commish should have absolutely no problem whatsoever in the coming months. It is hard seeing his goal-line stand being breached by the rush of popular unrest. The social-media hordes will have to settle for a field-goal attempt. The Big-League American Gridiron Throwball, calling plays from the box that is its Corporate Fortress, blocking and tackling all potential opponents with condescending ease. Not even the Four Horsemen could get past this. The Shield always winsz. Always. The Shield is BIGGER THAN ALL OF US.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WMF Report<\/strong>: <\/p>\n<p><em>Early<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Assiniboia<\/strong> 6f<br \/>\n<strong>BelTerra<\/strong> 6f<br \/>\n<strong>Chas. Town<\/strong> 4&frac12;f, 6&frac12;f, 7f<br \/>\n<strong>Fairmount<\/strong> 6f<br \/>\n<strong>Gulf<\/strong> 6f<br \/>\n<strong>Indiana<\/strong> 1m<br \/>\n<strong>Laurel<\/strong> 6f<br \/>\n<strong>Mountain<\/strong> 5f<br \/>\n<strong>Northlands<\/strong> 6&frac12;f, 1m<br \/>\n<strong>Suffolk<\/strong> 6f<br \/>\n<strong>Thistle<\/strong> 6f<br \/>\n<strong>Zia<\/strong> 6f<\/p>\n<p><em>Rally<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Arlington<\/strong> 1m<br \/>\n<strong>Gulf<\/strong> 1 1\/16m (T)<\/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>Hey, how ya&rsquo; doin&rsquo; over there?<\/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-7488","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-1WM","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7488","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=7488"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7502,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7488\/revisions\/7502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}