A pizza plate soaked in pizza grease, with a few key horse picks a day.
The grease never lies.
The Sicilian Square: thick, corner-crisped, and cut with no apology — the square slice doesn't hide in a round pie. Today's plate sat under a Sicilian, and the grease soaked straight through in bold, straight lines.
Pizza fact: a real Sicilian gets its airy crumb from a long rise in the pan itself, so the bottom fries in olive oil while the top bakes. Patience underneath, payoff on top — not a bad way to read a race card either.
House rule: read the corners first. Today's grease ran to the corners for Cumberland Run, Finger Lakes, and Mahoning Valley — three clear reads, no wiping, no second guesses.
Every day the pizza gets eaten, the plate gets read. Out of the whole card, a few key picks rise to the surface of the grease — those are the ones written here, each with the track it's running at. A fresh plate is served daily.