{"id":7915,"date":"2014-12-19T01:28:06","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T09:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/?p=7915"},"modified":"2014-12-19T01:28:06","modified_gmt":"2014-12-19T09:28:06","slug":"first-post-friday-december-19-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/2014\/12\/19\/first-post-friday-december-19-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"First Post: Friday, December 19, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"introvertsz\"<\/a>

Writing = solitary<\/p><\/div>\n

Good to play the races alone, too. Keep your own counsel, etc. <\/p>\n

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

Gulfstream Park Proper<\/strong> 2<\/em>, 5<\/em>, 6, 7, 9<\/em>
\nLos Alamitos Thoroughbreds<\/strong> (Daytime) 5, 7, 8<\/p>\n

Pay-side<\/strong>: Today…<\/p>\n

Fair Grounds<\/strong> 1, 3, 8, 9, 10
\nHawthorne<\/strong> 4, 9<\/em>
\nLaurel<\/strong> 2, 3<\/em>, 5<\/em>, 7<\/em>, 8, 9<\/em>
\nSunland<\/strong> 6, 8<\/em>, 10
\nTampa<\/strong> 1, 2, 5<\/em>, 6<\/em>, 8<\/em>, 9, 10
\nTurfway<\/strong> 1, 2<\/em>, 6<\/em>, 8<\/em>, 9<\/em><\/p>\n

Today’s Stakes Pageantry<\/strong>: Two on the docket, both in the Pelican State of Luzianne. Race 7<\/strong> at Fair Grounds<\/strong> could be a two-horsey showdown between #3 Bim Bam<\/strong> and #6 Grand Contender<\/strong>. In the nighttime it’s the eighth<\/strong> at Delta<\/strong>, and #6 Esther Carl<\/strong> may run better than most will suspect. <\/p>\n

Yesterday’s Activity<\/strong>: All right, all right, ya crazy Gulf Park fansz. Take it easy! <\/p>\n

Race 6 was won by the Coalminer, Triple Threat Horsey at Fair Odds of 7-5 on the noncontentious conventional V6 Betting Line and a good-enough, joint-top 81 on the LifeLiner Speed Column analysis. Went off at 3-1, bet way down from the 8-1 morning line, returning $8-even to the Company Store. Thanks, ya wise-guy Hallandale-loversz. Thanks a lot!<\/p>\n

Much less interest shown in Race 10 there, the finale. In it, Clapham Heights was your 2½-1 toteboard fave, bet down from 10-1 on your morning line. Hoo-boy. No go as a win wager, but should you try to beat him? After all, he was top of the V6 Betting Line at a mild 4-1 Fair Odds; he also shared, with two other runners, the top LifeLiner Speed Column Analysis score in the field, 95. What to do?<\/p>\n

First Bonkersmate Too Wild for Words, 20-1 on your morning line, stayed like that in real life, getting away at 22-1. A respectable fourth-rated on the Betting Line (no Fair Odds, though) and with a solid 90 in the LifeLiner Speed Column analysis, ’Words did what he needed to do, winning by 1¼-lengths and paying $46.80 up top. ’Clapham finished ninth. <\/p>\n

If you attempted to defeat the chalk all the way here, your top three finishers were OK on LifeLiner, with the exacta coming back $412.80 and the trizacta yielding $1,513.10, for $2 and for $1, respectively.<\/p>\n

In between those two races, it was the eighth, and Bonkersmate Riding the River nearly did it, finishing a good runner-up second, beaten less than 2 lengths, at 22-1. This was had the benefit of a much clearer false-vulnerable fave in Bashart, 2½-1 on your morning line and 13-10 when the gate opened. Bashart was only fourth-best on your LifeLiner Speed column analysis and was not highly regarded on the conventional V6 Betting Line either. <\/p>\n

Covering Riding the River with the win-underlayed but LifeLiner-competitive 4½-1 winner Aripeka resulted in a $219.20 saver exacta. The show-horse, 5-1, also did OK on LifeLiner, and if you had the conviction that Bashart was just not up to it for any of the vertical-exotics spots at an underlaid and overplayed 13-10, you got back $695.80 for a dollar in the triperfecta. <\/p>\n

Win, lose or draw, some really lovely contentious and wild stuff going on at this festive time of year at the Gulfstream Park Proper. Just lovely.<\/p>\n

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

Early<\/em>
\nGulf<\/strong> 6f
\nTampa<\/strong> 6f<\/p>\n

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

Thank you. Best wishes. Goodbye. Take care now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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