{"id":8192,"date":"2015-02-07T01:05:19","date_gmt":"2015-02-07T09:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/?p=8192"},"modified":"2015-02-07T01:05:19","modified_gmt":"2015-02-07T09:05:19","slug":"first-post-saturday-february-7-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/2015\/02\/07\/first-post-saturday-february-7-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"First Post: Saturday, February 7, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/118982382\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/118982382\">ArsenalWakeUpCall<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user20693549\">Steven Unite<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>All right, all right, ya sleepyheadsz! Wake up! Your 2015 Kentucky Derby is three months away still, but your first North London Derby (pronounced &lsquo;darby&rsquo;) of the year is going on really early this morning U.S. Time. If you&rsquo;re up and about at 7:45 a.m. EST (4:45 a.m. PST) today, switch-on the tellie and have a go. It should be massive. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cynthiapublishing.com\/pick.html\">Free<\/a> ones<\/strong>: Rundown&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Aqueduct<\/strong> 1, <em>5<\/em>, <em>9<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Gulfstream Park Proper<\/strong> <em>4<\/em>, 6, <em>7<\/em>, <em>9<\/em>, <em>10<\/em>, 13<br \/>\n<strong>Santa Anita<\/strong> <em>3<\/em>, <em>4<\/em>, 6, <em>9<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pay-side<\/strong> (<a href=\"http:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/mm5\/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&#038;Store_Code=THS&#038;Product_Code=WLLS&#038;Category_Code=\">Weekend<\/a>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/mm5\/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&#038;Store_Code=THS&#038;Product_Code=WLL1&#038;Category_Code=\">Weekday<\/a>): Today&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fair Grounds<\/strong> <em>1<\/em>, <em>4<\/em>, 6, 8, <em>9<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Golden Gate<\/strong> <em>7<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Sam Houston<\/strong> 1, <em>3<\/em>, 5, <em>6<\/em>, <em>10<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Laurel<\/strong> <em>3<\/em>, 5, <em>7<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Oaklawn<\/strong> <em>1<\/em>, 2, 6, <em>7<\/em>, 9<br \/>\n<strong>Sunland<\/strong> 5, 6, <em>8<\/em>, <em>10<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Tampa<\/strong> 4, 6, <em>7<\/em>, 8, <em>10<\/em>, 11<br \/>\n<strong>Turfway<\/strong> <em>5<\/em>, <em>7<\/em>, 8<br \/>\n<strong>Turf Paradise<\/strong> <em>3<\/em>, 4, <em>5<\/em>, 7, <em>8<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Today&rsquo;s Stakes Pageantry<\/strong>: <strong>Gulfstream 10<\/strong>, <strong>13<\/strong> on the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cynthiapublishing.com\/pick.html\">free<\/a><\/strong> page. <\/p>\n<p>Should be OK for the obvious <strong>#5 Salutos Amigos<\/strong> in <strong>Aqueduct 3<\/strong>. Same goes for <strong>#7 El Kabeir<\/strong> in the <strong>eighth<\/strong> there.<\/p>\n<p>More favoritism on tap in <strong>Gulfstream 12<\/strong>: <strong>#3 Imagining<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>However, we can sidestep the top two morning-line choices in <strong>Sunland 9<\/strong> and play <strong>#3 Bright Town<\/strong>, <strong>#1 Popalicious<\/strong> instead.<\/p>\n<p>Some live longshots spice up the all-night stakes gumboa (gumboa!) at <strong>Delta<\/strong>. In <strong>Race 3<\/strong>, <strong>#2 Slew City Lou<\/strong> and <strong>#4 Patter Flatter<\/strong> can do it at fine odds. In the <strong>fourth<\/strong>, <strong>#9 Dolly Bonz<\/strong> and <strong>#1 Thar She Blows<\/strong> possess upset potential. Likewise <strong>#6 Diamond Cutter<\/strong> in <strong>Race 5<\/strong>. <strong>#1 Ollie Baby<\/strong> has a chance in <strong>Race 6<\/strong>. So does <strong>#8 Zarb&rsquo;s Gift<\/strong> in the <strong>seventh<\/strong>. Three-to-five is your morning-line price on the prohibitive <strong>#1 Sunbean<\/strong> in <strong>Race 10<\/strong>, but it&rsquo;ll be hard to dethrone him. Finally, <strong>Race 11<\/strong> brings <strong>#3 Candiano<\/strong> to the starting gate with a little bit of hope to surprise.<\/p>\n<p>Luzianne, <em>cher<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Yesterday&rsquo;s Activity<\/strong>: No good, Chollie, no traction. Fingers crossed for all the faithful now.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WMF Report<\/strong>: <\/p>\n<p><em>Early<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Chas. Town<\/strong> 4&frac12;f<br \/>\n<strong>Fair Grounds<\/strong> 6f, 1m70y<br \/>\n<strong>Santa Anita<\/strong> 6f<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nocturnal Submission<\/strong>: Sifting through the wreckage&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Thank you. Best wishes. Goodbye. Next time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ArsenalWakeUpCall from Steven Unite on Vimeo. All right, all right, ya sleepyheadsz! Wake up! Your 2015 Kentucky Derby is three months away still, but your first North London Derby (pronounced &lsquo;darby&rsquo;) of the year is going on really early this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/2015\/02\/07\/first-post-saturday-february-7-2015\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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-8192","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-288","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8192","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=8192"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8195,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8192\/revisions\/8195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}