{"id":9773,"date":"2016-01-03T12:28:58","date_gmt":"2016-01-03T20:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/?p=9773"},"modified":"2016-01-07T13:56:28","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T21:56:28","slug":"first-post-sunday-january-3-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/2016\/01\/03\/first-post-sunday-january-3-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"First Post: Sunday, January 3, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Captain<\/p><\/div>\n

The ‘C’ also stands for Claude. <\/p>\n

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

Gulfstream Park Proper<\/strong> 8<\/em>
\nSanta Anita<\/strong> 6, 8, 9<\/p>\n

Pay-side (Weekday<\/a>\/Weekend<\/a>)<\/strong>: Today…<\/p>\n

Fair Grounds<\/strong> 6, 8<\/em>, 9<\/em>
\nGolden Gate<\/strong> 3<\/em>, 4<\/em>, 5, 8<\/em>
\nLaurel<\/strong> 8<\/em>, 9<\/em>
\nTampa<\/strong> 7, 8, 9
\nTurfway<\/strong> 3, 4, 5, 6, 7<\/em>, 8<\/em>
\nTurf Paradise<\/strong> 3<\/em>, 4<\/em>, 7<\/p>\n

Today’s Stakes Pageantry<\/strong>: #11 Ageless<\/strong> seems best in Santa Anita 7<\/strong>, but any of the first four morning-line horseys appears capable. <\/p>\n

Yesterday’s Activity<\/strong>: <\/p>\n

Track (Win Mutuels $20+\/Gettable)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Aqueduct (3\/2)<\/strong> — Race 2 OK on LifeLiner but fourth-deep on the noncontentious-race Betting Line. Race 5 no chance. Race 7 top Betting Line and fine on Spread Column; however, the 5-1 morning-line precluded a straight-up tout. Oh, well.<\/p>\n

Delta (3\/0)<\/strong> — Total perdition, a familiar condition. <\/p>\n

Fair Grounds (4\/1)<\/strong> — First three no soap, no sale. Nightcap winner (18-1) unluckily dead-heated by 11-10 fave and forced to split the win-pool; nevertheless, the 18-1 was touted, OK on LifeLiner.<\/p>\n

Golden Gate (3\/1)<\/strong> — The last two no good, but the one in the fifth was a blowup: the fifth-touted horsey won at 12-1, $26-even up top, with the third-touted runner, 51-1 on the toteboard, just a neck back as the runner-up, with the perfector returning $815-plus for $2. Unfortunately, the show-horse was elusive.<\/p>\n

Gulfstream (3\/1)<\/strong> — This time, the middle of the three longshots would have made it, in Race 2 at 9:35 a.m. PDT, had the pick-page crew posted in time. Boo, hiss! Anyway, this Cali Cat was 15-1 on the morning line and 21-1 in real life, semi-blessed with competitive LifeLiner Speed and Spread Column numbers in the 70s, no better or worse than anyone else in this sluggish field. Regrets!<\/p>\n

Hawthorne (2\/0)<\/strong> — More desperation here.<\/p>\n

Los Alamitos (1\/0)<\/strong> — Hard to find the 40-1 upsetter in the opener. Sorry.<\/p>\n

Laurel (1\/1)<\/strong> — KING OF THE NETCAPPER<\/del> NIGHTCAPPER BULLIES in this one, touted. Fine connection-line first-timer (16 pc\/17 pc\/50 pc) in junky maiden-claiming field. This one paid $40.20-straight.<\/p>\n

Mahoning (1\/0)<\/strong> — Not quite there with the lone upsetter on the day. <\/p>\n

Santa Anita (3\/2)<\/strong> — The big $90-plus horse in the stakes race proved elusive; pity. But a mild (read: none too strong) case could be made for the Race 4 shocker, given the excellent first-timer connection-line of 21 pc\/13 pc\/38 pc. In the finale, though, it was another touted KING OF THE NETCAPPER<\/del> NIGHTCAPPER BULLIES special, the third in our last four tries at Santa Anita. This time, the third-touted runner was the winner, at 17-1 ($37.40), a fine 88 in the LifeLiner Spread column off a pair of 99s in the Early and Pace Columns; the overall shape of the Betting Line was nebulous, thanks to the top two horses receiving Fair Odds of only 6-1: a vivid attempt to nail Jell-O to a tree, with the gelatin somehow finding a way to stay affixed to the bark now. <\/p>\n

Sunland (1\/1)<\/strong> — No public or pay-side touting of Sunland today, but Race 6 was makeable via the $28.80 winner’s being dually qualified on the LifeLiner Speed and Spread Column analyses in a random-type race. <\/p>\n

Tampa (2\/0)<\/strong> — Zip.<\/p>\n

Turfway (1\/0)<\/strong> — The $85-plus last-race shocker was beyond us.<\/p>\n

Turf Paradise (3\/1)<\/strong> — The last of this track’s longshots was touted on the pay-side, up top, no less, as best on both LifeLiner Speed and LifeLiner Spread. This one came back $38 to win.<\/p>\n

As always, hope you had ’em! At least some of ’em.<\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

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