Dick Jerardi
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He's actually got two in the race, litmus test.
Kind of a late decision.
And Cox, you're right, he had three this morning.
Now he's got two because full effort at some kind of an issue.
And he's going to โ he's at 20.
He's going to be scratched.
But, yeah, it's Cox and Chad Brown and Todd Pletcher and Bill Mott who won the race last year.
He's back again with Chief Wallaby and Baffert.
I mean, they basically โ they're some of the biggest names in the sport, and they have half the starting gate.
And that's kind of the way it's going to be, and it has been for a while, because they have the owners that have the big money that are buying those kind of horses that typically could get to the Derby.
Yeah, probably the best one, if you go back to 2004 with Smarty Jones, Stuart Elliott was the winning rider.
is going to ride in the Derby this year is someone's not born when Smarty Jones won.
won the Derby in 2004.
So here, 22 years later, you've got Christopher Elliott is going to get his shot.
He's going right to party for Kenny McPeak.
So that's kind of a cool story.
We'd have a father-son Derby combo.