Tuesday Thoughts

We have a day until the entries for Saturday's card come out, so here's some random thoughts on this quiet Tuesday:

• One thing that NYRA remains the undisputed leader in racing in is their social media: youtube, instagram, twitter, facebook, all of it is top-of-the-line. Monmouth: not so much. Their twitter is infrequent at best, their instagram isn't updated anymore, and their youtube channel, with the exception of the wonderful videos with Mike Curci and Brad Thomas, hasn't been updated in eons. That's definitely one area that Monmouth can improve on, in my opinion. Wouldn't it be awesome to see photos of each day's racing action on instagram and/or twitter (i.e. Santa Anita), or the occasional cool old race on youtube (i.e. NYRA)?
• I know the likelihood of this happening should he win the Triple Crown is slim, but if I was Monmouth, I would be pulling out all the stops to court Zayat and Baffert to bring American Pharaoh to the Haskell. Could you imagine if he wins the Triple Crown, shows up to Monmouth, and the race is marketed well? There could be 50,000 people there for the Haskell. It would be one of the biggest, if not the biggest day of racing in Monmouth's history.
• Larry Boy's loss in the eleventh race on Sunday ended the streak of David Jacobson and Andre Worrie winning every race they had teamed up on thus far at the Monmouth season. I really thought they had a shot of being perfect all year.
• Shoutout to Jose Ferrer, who has been having a terrific start to the season, going 6-24, good for a tie for first atop atop the jockey standings. On the opposite side, both Angel Serpa and Gabriel Saez have started 0-26 for the meet. Until they snap out of their streaks, I'm avoiding their horses at the windows.
• Speaking of jockeys, Jersey Joe Bravo has had one winner from thirteen mounts on the season, as he sits at 4,999 career wins. He has one mount at Belmont Park tomorrow, then no more until Saturday. "Shore" would be awkward if he won on that horse. 
• In the great article on americasbestracing.com about new announcer Frank Mirahmadi, he mentions that he will taking a break in June to fill in at Santa Anita for Trevor Denman. This means two things:
• 1. That despite the presence of dormant SoCal announcers Vic Stauffer and Ed Burgart, or any announcer anywhere in the country not currently active, Santa Anita couldn't find anyone else to fill in besides Frank. Unless they didn't want anyone else besides Frank, even though he's working on literally the exact opposite end of the country.
  2. Someone else will be calling at Monmouth for a good two weeks. I figure it will be one of the guys at the Meadowlands, but still, my great call last year of "Maybe Tonight, definitely today!" should shorely place me under consideration.

Those are all the important thoughts I have for today. Really looking forward to what is "shore" to be a great Memorial Day weekend of racing at Monmouth Park.