{"id":780,"date":"2011-03-12T10:53:59","date_gmt":"2011-03-12T18:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/?p=780"},"modified":"2011-03-12T10:55:16","modified_gmt":"2011-03-12T18:55:16","slug":"first-post-saturday-march-12-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/2011\/03\/12\/first-post-saturday-march-12-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"First Post: Saturday, March 12, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Man, rooting for the Arsenal F.C. is like rooting for the cheap speed.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Flashy up front, involved in all sorts of competitions from August through March, and then it&#8217;s time for the real hoofing to begin &mdash; all of a sudden, <em>poof<\/em>! <\/p>\n<p>Like an outclassed frontrunner who finally reaches his level of incompetence, that&#8217;s the Arsenal F.C., year after year. It&#8217;s predictable. Just as some overambitious horses start calling for a skateboard at the quarter-pole, the Arsenal F.C. begin backing out of the battle in March of every season. It&#8217;s like rooting for the Dallas Mavericks or Minnesota Vikings every year. Always a good record, plenty of skill and talent and flair, but nowhere when the trophies are handed out. &ldquo;Our valued destiny come to nothing&#8230;&rdquo; was how they put it in a recent song.<\/p>\n<p>Ah, well. Silly to complain about football when the rest of the world is rocking and there&#8217;s real suffering to be endured. Utterly useless to make more than 45,000 posts to a noxious online message board. Was it really necessary to type all that? Could it have been that important? Someone will make a smart answer. And then the tally goes to 45,000 +1! Too bad Freud isn&#8217;t around to analyze that sort of thing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cynthiapublishing.com\/pick.html\">Free<\/a> ones&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Rundown<br \/>\n<strong>Aqueduct<\/strong> 2, 5, 8<br \/>\n<strong>Gulfstream<\/strong> 5, 7, 9<br \/>\n<strong>Santa Anita<\/strong> 4, 8, 9<\/p>\n<p>Pay-side&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Rundown<br \/>\n<strong>Laurel<\/strong> 2, 5, 8<br \/>\n<strong>Tampa<\/strong> 6, 7, 10<br \/>\n<strong>Hawthorne<\/strong> 6, 7, 8<br \/>\n<strong>Fair Grounds<\/strong> 6, 7, 9<br \/>\n<strong>Oaklawn<\/strong> 3, 7, 10<br \/>\n<strong>Turfway<\/strong> 1, 4, 11<\/p>\n<p>WMF Report: Remember that contrast at <strong>Golden Gate<\/strong>: 6f WMF 166, 1 1\/16m WMF 20. &#8230;<strong>Gulfstream<\/strong> has two speed-friendly trips at 6f, 1m. &#8230;<strong>Hawthorne<\/strong> OK at 6f for speed. &#8230;Ditto <strong>Laurel<\/strong>. &#8230;<strong>Mountaineer<\/strong> 5&frac12;f has front-tendencies. &#8230;<strong>Philly Pharx<\/strong> 6f WMF 275. &#8230;Rallies still at the <strong>Tampa<\/strong> 1m (T), WMF 23. &#8230;Three fantastic leading trips at <strong>Turf Paradise<\/strong>: 6f, 6&frac12;f, 1m. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Thank you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man, rooting for the Arsenal F.C. is like rooting for the cheap speed.<\/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":[11,4,3],"tags":[13,7,6],"class_list":["post-780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-picks","category-wmf","tag-commentary","tag-longshots","tag-track-bias"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pavW5M-cA","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780","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=780"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":782,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions\/782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}