1/3: Gulfstream (Opening Day)

[Kasept]

Thoroughly crazy late afternoon results Saturday at Aqueduct produced some of the most outrageous payoffs that we will likely see all year. The insanity commenced when Colum O'Brien sent out utterly impossible Finger Lakes import Hudson Heights at 110-1 who ran down even money choice Empty Wallet. Jackie Davis then booted home 30-1 Gold Vendetta for Ronan Assef, tripping your run of the mill $4,226 Daily Double and $10,477 P3. As if those weren't enough, and just when it seemed off the pace was the ticket, Davey Cohen proceeded to upset the Count Fleet with Tony Dutrow-Rick Porter PHA invader Laus Deo via the wire to wire method. That result triggered a $32,075 Pick 3... as big as three race payout as I've ever seen.

Needless to say, the sequence produced a carryover of $35k which will wait until Wednesday with Sunday's cancellation in Jamaica. Hope you had anything in the late races yesterday! Gulfstream opens today, and I looked at the whole fun card thanks to a request from 'Bush' Holcombe at the Pilot House Marina's Glass Bottom Bar in Key Largo. Bush is bringing a busload of Glass Bottom patrons to Hallandale for today's opener, and most will be visiting a racetrack for the first time. Hope my opinions get them off to a great start as racegoers and congrats/thanks to Bush for trying to make new players out of his friends and patrons! If you don't have one yet, that could be everyone's best resolution for 2010... To make friends and their friends into racetrack patrons!


GULFSTREAM PARK


PRE-SCRATCHES


1st: MSW, 4+, 6f (P3, DD, Super)

Most Likely: #1 Causeway's Kin 3-1 2nd
Best Value: #4 Inheritor 12-1 5th
Next Best: #7 Grand Captain 9-5 WON
Super Add: #9 Maria's Pass 5-1 8th


2nd: CLM, 4+, 6f (P3, DD, Super)

Most Likely: #5 Unbridled Heat 5-2 2nd
Best Value: #7 Green Vegas 4-1 3rd
Next Best: #8 Mannington 3-1 WON
Super Add: #3 Right of Way 6-1 5th


3rd: CLM, 3yo-F, 1m-T (P3, DD, Super)

NO CONTEST.. GATE STUCK ON COURSE..

Most Likely: #3 Cake Walk 5-2
Best Value: #11 Ms. N. Tarsia 10-1
Next Best: #9 Smart City Doc 6-1
Super Add: #8 Thewifedoesntknow 5-1


4th: MSW, 3yo-F, 1m (P6, P3, DD, Super)

Best Value: #8 So Posh 12-1 8th
Most Likely: #10 Alluring Power 4-1 2nd
Next Best: #4 Elarose 10-1 11th
Super Add: #9 Never Quicker 7-2 WON


5th: CLM, F&M-4+, 8.5f-T (P3, DD, Super)

Most Likely: #10 Encanto Park 4-1 2nd
Best Value: #9 Doctor Carina 12-1 WON
Next Best: #1 SCR
Super Add: #3 Cagey Girl 8-1 4th


6th: OC/N2X, 4+, 1m (.50 P4, P3, DD, Super)

Most Likely: #7 Alma d'Oro 4-1 3rd
Next Best: #12 Birdrun 3-1 2nd
Best Value: #1 Blank Check 12-1 6th
Super Add: #9 Saratoga Sinner 8-1 5th


7th: OC/N3X, 4+, 1m-T (P3, DD, Super)

Most Likely: #4 Blues Street 7-2 WON
Best Value: #5 Carson Hall 12-1 4th
Next Best: #1 Americain 10-1 3rd
Super Add: #3 Lemon Cream Pie 4-1 2nd


8th: Hal's Hope (G3), 4+, 1m (DD, Super)

Most Likely: #2 Quality Road 6-3 WON
Best Value: #5 Le Grand Cru 5-1 6th
Next Best: #7 Harlem Rocker 3-1 4th
Super Add: #9 Congressional Page 15-1 3rd


9th: MSW, 3yo, 6f (Super)

Most Likely: #4 General Song 7-2 6th
Best Value: #10 Blue Tape 20-1 12th
Next Best: #1 (POE) The Director 4-1 4th
Super Add: #11 Michael Rules 6-1 9th


<$75 P4 Play:

6: 7-12
7: 1-3-4-5
8: 2-5-7
9: 1-3-4-9-10-11

2x4x3x6 = 144 x .50 = $72


Good luck!
Steve