Randy Moss
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how angry he looks nfl has been clueless for 50 years when it comes to evaluating quarterback clueless all that no idea what they're doing in terms of evaluating quarterback that's proof there's proof of that how many times we know exactly what we're talking about with quarterback they don't
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Randy Moss Talking Kentucky Derby, Joakim Noah In Studio, The Lakers Go Out Sad, Jalen Brunson Ends The Pistons, Hockey Playoffs + Fyre Fest of The Week
Hey, good. Hey, I'm one of the original recurring guests, Big Cat. Yep. You know? Yes. The first time I was on, we played Race Horse or Porn Star. Are we going to play that again? We could. Bonnie Blue.
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I couldn't lose with you guys for a long time. It's kind of come back down to earth a little bit, but let's get the ball rolling again this year, why don't we?
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Yeah. Yeah, Bob, and so is Churchill Downs. I did not know what to expect when Baffert came back. They gave him his old barn back. They put up all the old signs at his old barn. They're all singing Kumbaya by the campfire. Bob says the one thing you have to learn being a horse trainer with so much dejection and disappointment and defeat is –
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how to turn the page and move on and don't dwell on the past. And he said he's viewing the last three years and all the lawsuits and the legal challenges, none of which were successful, like he was just losing races. And now he's looking ahead and he's just ecstatic, really. He's really happy to be back here.
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Yeah, that's what, well, you know, he's arguably, I don't even think there's an argument. He's the most successful Kentucky Derby trainer of all time. Obviously, one of the leading trainers, period, of all time. And while he was serving at three-year suspension, it was just for Churchill Downs Incorporated racetracks.
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Churchill Downs, Fairgrounds, Ellis Park, Turfway Park, Fairgrounds, racetracks like that, right? It had nothing to do with any of the other racetracks Bob competes at, really. So he's been winning tons of races. His stable's actually gotten stronger over the last three years than it was before the suspension. He just most famously couldn't run under his name in the Kentucky Derby.
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Fortunately for Bob... During that three-year period, he didn't have an American Pharaoh. He didn't have a Justify, right? He didn't have a horse that looked like it was a Kentucky Derby winner. And he doesn't this year either, really, to tell you the truth. But just the fact that he's back, he was booed, actually, I was told, by some people at the post-position draw.
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So he is still a bit of a polarizing figure with some people. And I think a lot of that has to do with the coverage and the mainstream media that made it sound like that he was, you know, doping Medina Spirit with an intent to try to cheat and try to win rather than the reality, which was just a medication violation that should have been avoided.
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There is a world, it may be in another universe, but there is a world in which a Bob Baffert horse, one of those two horses can win. Here's the interesting part about the race, guys, from a Bob Baffert perspective, right? Citizen Bull and Rodriguez are both speed horses. They both need to have the early lead in order to win. So you say, okay, they're counterproductive, right?
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They both can't have a clear lead. Citizen Bull, I think, is faster than Rodriguez. So if either of the two horses are gonna win wire to wire, it's most likely to be Citizen Bull, but here's what's gonna happen. Martin Garcia on Citizen Bull, Mike Smith on Rodriguez are both gonna ride their horses strongly out of the starting gate with the intent of making the early lead.
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Then Mike Smith on Rodriguez is gonna look over and if he sees Citizen Bull on the inside of him, instead of going head to head with each other, He's going to ease back a little bit, and Citizen Bull's probably going to go on to set the pace. If Mike looks over and doesn't see Citizen Bull, like if Citizen Bull breaks slowly from the starting gate, then Mike says, heck, I can have the early lead.
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That's what my horse likes. And then Rodriguez will take it, and he'll have a shot to go wire to wire. But the pace is likely to be fast. And, uh, so it's, it's really the race looks on paper. Like it sets up for a comfort behind it.
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My opinion, yes. I think journalism is two to three lengths better than any other horse right now in the field. As a matter of fact, one of the reasons I think he's such a solid favorite in my estimation is that the second best three-year-old in the country, I think, is the horse named Baeza, who right now is on the outside looking in. He's on the wait list.
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He's number 21, just like Rich Strike was three years ago. He's waiting on a sickness or an injury or something to be able to get into the field. And now he's got About 24 hours for that to happen. We all have expected it all week long. We've expected Baeza to be able to get in the race.
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They shipped him all the way from California to Kentucky, thinking that someone would drop out and he would probably be able to get in. With all the veterinary scrutiny nowadays on these horses, it's a good thing. Typically, one or two of them wind up getting scratched. We're sitting here on Thursday now, and there have been no additional scratches to get Baeza into the field.
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So it's looking less and less like he's going to be able to run, which makes journalism look more and more like a solid favorite.
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ordinarily dan i think that would be a a very legitimate argument okay but in journalism's last race in the san anita derby he got into more trouble almost certainly more trouble than he's going to get into in the kentucky derby and he was still able to win anyway it was only a five-force field But Bob Baffert had two horses in the race.
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He had Citizen Bull, who was hooked on the front end and didn't run that well. And he had another horse named Barnes. And the riders were playing team tactics. And the jockey on Barnes, Juan Hernandez, targeted journalism. Journalism had the big bullseye on his back. He was a heavy, heavy favorite, as he should have been.
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And it even got to the point, going into the second turn of that race, where Juan Hernandez on Barnes elbowed Umberto Rispoli on journalism. brought the horse all the way over, tried to squeeze him against the rail, elbowed the other jockey. The stewards called him in. And the steward voted two to one not to suspend him, but he very well could have got a suspension for that.
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And yet journalism was able to win the race anyway. So he's already overcome adversity, and that makes me feel a whole lot better about a big field. Okay.
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Yeah.
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I'll tell you what, my biggest concern about journalism would actually benefit Sandman, okay? If the pace gets completely out of control, and we've seen that happen before in the Kentucky Derby. We saw it happen with Rich Strike in 2022. Then it favors horses that are actually – 16th, 17th, 18th. I think Rich Strike was 20th at one point early in the Kentucky Derby.
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That happens a lot at the Kentucky Derby. My biggest concern is that journalism, who's written by a jockey named Umberto Rispoli, who actually statistically has been better on grass than he is on dirt, might get himself, might be positioned too close to a fast pace. That's my biggest concern about journalism. If the pace is fast, he needs to be 10 lengths off the pace.
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Now, if that happens, Sandman's going to be rolling from the back of the pack. Sovereignty is going to be rolling from the back of the pack. So will Burnham Square, horses like that. It's going to favor them. But otherwise, I think if he's ridden properly, I think journalism's, you know, clearly, clearly the worst to be.
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Honestly, I would ignore the weather. I really would. Only because of this. Horses nowadays, when they run in the Kentucky Derby, are so inexperienced. That none of them have really had, you know, any substantial experience running on that kind of a racetrack. So it's a crapshoot. You really don't know.
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And they're all such good horses that typically they'll be able to handle situations like that anyway. So that's one variable that I wouldn't I wouldn't be losing sleep over.
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The trainers are not being secretive. Everything is so out in the open here with all the media watching and all the works on TV and on YouTube and things like that, that there's really no way to hide. The way you put that, that question is absolutely perfect. And by that, I mean... Perfect question. for that particular horse. Some horses work great every time you send them to the racetrack.
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Some horses just don't give a crap, and they don't work well anytime you send them to the racetrack, and yet they run really good in the afternoons, okay? That becomes just sort of part of the horse's personality, part of the horse's form. If you have a horse that normally works, lights out, and suddenly he's just working, eh,
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so so bad sign if you have a horse that normally works black bluster and suddenly he's breaking watches boom that's a really good sign uh one of those kind of horses the latter is sovereignty trained by bill mott stretch runner the dolphin second in the florida derby
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He's always been just a very average workhorse, and he's looked a lot better in the morning here at Churchill Downs than he has in the past. And he's going to be one of those horses running from the back of the pack.
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Probably the coolest nugget is, and it's going to be a big storyline in the Derby, and it has been all spring long, is a horse named Cold Battle. who is trained by Lonnie Briley. If you've never heard of Lonnie Briley, no one else who follows the sport of horse racing had really heard of Lonnie Briley either until a few months ago.
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He's a 72-year-old guy, calls himself a coon ass from Louisiana, never had a graded stakes horse of any kind before, much less a Kentucky Derby horse. And Lonnie's here with Cole Battle, who's You know, legitimately a decent three-year-old. He's going to be 20 to 1, 25 to 1. But, I mean, here's a guy that's, like, been a media darling back here just because –
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He's just, it's like a kid in a candy store. He's never been here before. It's actually very stressful for him. Bob Baffert has really taken a liking to him. And Bob wanted to do a selfie with him. And Lonnie said, why do you want to do a selfie with old coot-ass like me? And Bob said, I want to send it to my kids. And Lonnie was just, oh, he just couldn't believe it.
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And Bob was joking with his wife about how nice that old man Lonnie Briley was. And Jill, his wife, said, oh, man, you're as old as he is. And so Bob had to go to Wikipedia. They're about the same age. Bob didn't like that. I love it.
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Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. So is there any chance this year? Probably just because this is the year that I'm getting off Japanese. Two years ago, Dervis Sotagaki, I think I told you, I thought he had a hell of a chance to win. Didn't get out of the gate. Wound up later in the year running second in the Breeders' Cup Classic. Last year, Forever Young.
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He's one of, if not the best dirt horses in the world right now. He probably should have won the Kentucky Derby last year. He got beat ahead in the nose and was interfered with the length of the stretch. This year, Luxor Cafe is the best of the two Japanese horses. He doesn't look to be as good as Forever Young, at least in terms of the analytics, the final times, and stuff like that.
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You go back and watch his last race in Japan, you can see it on YouTube. And it's like, whoa, boy, did that look good. But... Who did he run against? We don't really know. So bottom line, I'm getting off the Japanese this year, so this will be the year they'll probably win.
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He's got a long shot chance to hit the board. Grande is the horse's name. It looked like Todd Pletcher and Mike Rapoli weren't going to have anything in the Kentucky Derby this year, and then suddenly Grande steps up and runs second in the Wood Memorial. He was wide on both turns, especially the first turn. So you've got to move him up a little bit. He's got a pretty good number.
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He's going to be 20 to 1. I would definitely throw him into your trifectas and your superfectas. I don't think he can win necessarily, but he's in with a chance at a big price.
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Put on some noble water. Yeah, exactly.
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You're on Secretariat. I'm on Secretariat. All right. In the morning when you're in the bathroom and you pull out the scale and you step on it, what does the scale say?
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No shot. No shot, big cat. No shot. I'm sorry to tell you that. Would I finish dead last? Probably.
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Not dead last. Even if you were an accomplished equestrian. No, at that weight, riding Secretariat, no, he'd be up the track.
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In this field? Yeah. Get down to about between 135 and 140.
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I don't get paid enough for this. Horses have probably felt that way. We probably have. Unfortunately, they don't know how to communicate that. Weight is a little overrated. in horse racing just a little bit, just because the horses themselves weigh anywhere from 1,000 to 1,200 pounds. You know, wait till you see Citizen Bull. He looks like a Clydesdale.
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This sucker, they didn't name him Bull because of that. They named him after the Citizen Bullhead watch. that I think was made famous by Brad Pitt in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, I think was the movie. So that's how they got the name Citizen Bull, but this horse looks like a bull.
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But my point being that when horses are that big and that stout, you know, two or three, four extra pounds on their back doesn't really make all that much of a difference. But when you're talking about 235 pounds, yeah, maybe not.
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Oh, yes. Horses are not nearly as robust and as a silverback gorilla. Horses are pretty fragile. And I agree with you. I got that question the other day on an interview. It depends on who the 100 men are. Yeah, 100 jockeys, probably not. The right 100 men who are just crazy enough, I think they could probably also handle a silverback gorilla.
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10 to 1? I think the jockeys would still take me. 1,000 to 100? Yeah.
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How about, well, let's see. I'm not much of a fighter. How about 15? 15, okay. I'll take that.
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I got a few of them here to give you. First of all, in the Kentucky Oaks, the big favorite is Good Cheer. I think she's undefeated. She's six for six. She's six to five in the program line. I think she's worth taking a shot against just because her numbers are not all that great. There's a horse in there named Quietside that I think would be worth a play, despite her number 14 post position.
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So it would be 14 Quietside. There's another horse in there by the name of Ballerina Doro, who breaks from post number six. And then the number two in there is a horse called Simply Jokin'. So I think if you were just to box, right, box Quietside and Simply Jokin' and Ballerina Doro and try to beat Good Cheer...
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like in an X-Acto box or something, you might be able to get a pretty nice payoff there. And then earlier on the card, there's a race called the La Troianne. You may have heard of Torpedo Anna. She won the Kentucky Oaks last year. She was named Horse of the Year last year. She hasn't lost since then. She's two for two this year at Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs. She's going to be a big favorite.
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Again, I think she is a heavy favorite that might be worth a bet against. Chad Brown has a couple of horses in that race, and one of them is named Randomized and the other is named Raging Sea. Honestly, I would play a trifecta and put Torpedo Anne a third. That's almost heresy in horse racing.
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But I would use Randomized, who's got a wire-to-wire possibility there, and then Raging Sea on top of Torpedo Anne and really try to swing for the fences in that one as well.
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That's Friday. All right. You want me to bounce through Saturday real quick? I got a couple for you. Yes, please. Please. In the fourth race in the Knicks go, there's a horse called Castle Chaos. I think he's the four horse. You might want to double check that, but his name's Castle Chaos. He's 20 to one in the program.
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He hasn't won a race since 2023, and I'm telling you, he's got a hell of a chance to win the next go. I'm not expecting him to be 20-1. I'm expecting more like 10-1, 12-1, but still. I mean, I think Castle Chaos has a big shot. And then in the Pat Day Mile, that's the sixth race. There's a horse that's 6-1 in the program called Gate to Wire. That's not the way he runs.
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He'll be back in the pack a little bit, but the pace looks pretty fast. Todd Pletcher's the trainer. And I think Gate to Wire in the pad day mile is going to be a pretty good play as well.
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Now, this is a huge long shot, and I don't think he can necessarily win, but you can put him into your supers and your tries and maybe really try to kill the world. His name is Final Gambit. He's trained by Brad Cox. He's probably going to be 40-something to one, maybe 50 to one. He won the Jeff Ruby stakes on synthetic. He's never run on dirt before.
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But since he's never run on dirt before, what we don't know is maybe he's even better on dirt. We don't know. He's training really well on dirt at Churchill Downs. Brad Cox has been really surprised how well he's trained. He'll be last early, probably. He'll be way back there. But if the pace is fast, he'll be running.
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And he may be able to, you know, pass some tired horses and get up for third or fourth at 50 to one. You never know. Okay.
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All right. So journalism, sovereignty, journalism, sovereignty, and then underneath that in the third and fourth spots, then you got Sandman, then you got Burnham Square, then you've got the Japanese horse Luxor Cafe. Right. Then you've got this horse Final Gambit. So, yeah, you can spread on the third in the third and fourth spots and maybe get a really nice payoff.
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I'm talking I was 12 years old at the time. I had just started handicapping for a newspaper in Little Rock under somebody's name when I was 12 years old. They didn't want anyone to know a 12 year old was dispensing financial advice. There was a horse running in Arkansas that actually wound up coming to Churchill Downs and setting a six furlong track record that held for about 25 years.
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He was a white horse. Not officially white. He was gray, but he was almost white. It was unbelievably popular in Arkansas where I grew up. His name was Barbizon Streak. He even had a great name. He was an Arkansas bred horse who loved to win. After he retired, I went to see him at the farm in Arkansas and would feed him carrots from time to time. I got pictures of him on my office wall.
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Yeah, Barbizon Streak. That's pretty incredible.
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Well, I was through a friend of a friend. I met the guy who actually was doing the picks for a long time for a newspaper in Arkansas called the Arkansas Gazette. It was the oldest newspaper west of the Mississippi, believe it or not. And it was a chore to type all the stuff in and make the comments on all the horses and all that.
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So he paid me $20 a week for a friend of a friend, even though I didn't know how to type, on an old manual typewriter to do all the entries for him every day. And I did speed figures back then. I was a pretty sharp handicapper, even as a 12-year-old. I was a numbers kid. And I noticed that he was not a very good handicapper.
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And so I started changing some of his picks very judiciously, very, you know, and I would tell him, I said, hey, Don, that was cocky, you know, cocky ass 12 year old kid. Who do I think I am? You know, I changed this pick. I think this horse is going to win. And like the first five or six I changed wound up winning.
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And so he told me, he said, all right, kid, he said, why don't you make all the picks from now on? And they had a competition in the press box among all of the newspaper handicappers, $1,000 at the beginning of the meet. At the end of the meet, whoever picked the most winners, winner took all. He never won. He always got his $1,000 taken away. That year, he won his $1,000.
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And so I kept doing it until I took it over myself in my own name when I was in college.
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Okay.
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Yeah. Yeah. In the early 90s, one of my best friends who was an attorney, worked with Hillary Clinton, actually, at a law firm in Little Rock, an insane gambler, a guy by the name of Dave Thomas. He and I went into a partnership playing the pick six game. which was really huge back then.
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At one point, we had the highest payoffs ever recorded in the state of Louisiana and the state of Oklahoma simultaneously. We had a $500,000 pick-six at Louisiana Downs and almost a $400,000 pick-six at Remington Park in Oklahoma and some other places. Slightly smaller pick sixes as well. Yeah. That's a pretty good day. That was back in the day when the pick six was just really hellacious to play.
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Holy shit. What was the price of those tickets? The first one was $15,000. And the second one in Oklahoma, we actually played two tickets. One of them was like about a $5,000 or $6,000 ticket, but the one we hit it on was like a $27 ticket. No way. Oh, my God. Holy shit. What did you do to celebrate? We took everybody in the press box out to dinner.
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Like that's insane. Something like that. We had a couple of long shots that we liked that we thought had a chance that we didn't put on the main ticket. And so we played the ancillary ticket and single those two long shots and they both wound up winning. And then the rest of them were, you know, logical top two kind of picks. So yeah. That's insane. That's great.
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All right, guys. I'll be ready for you. Take care.
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Thank you.
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And now for something completely different.
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Well, you and I have talked about this before in the past. The horse is fine. The horse is actually in great shape. But trainer Bill Mott, the owner's dolphin, don't want to run the horse back in two weeks after the Kentucky Derby, which is the ultimate stress test for racehorses.
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They feel like that the horse needs more time to recuperate for safety reasons, for the horse's health and well-being, and also for performance reasons because they think the horse will run better. With more time in between races. It's a very familiar mantra right now. If the trainer were Todd Pletcher, we'd be seeing the same thing, in my opinion.
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If it were Brad Cox, we'd be saying the same thing. It's going to happen more and more frequently in the future until such time as the Triple Crown races begin.
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It's totally the calendar. Totally the calendar. But they're going to run him in the Belmont Stakes. And after the Belmont Stakes, they'll probably point him for the Travers. And after the Travers, they'll get another race and point him for the Breeders' Cup Classic. So he'll run more this year as a three-year-old. Yes, his value has improved after the Kentucky Derby.
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But the Preakness is a classic. The Preakness is an American tradition in the sport. There is plenty of value to a horse in winning the Preakness States, even a horse that just won the Kentucky Derby. But they think it is counterproductive to bring him back in just two weeks. Look, back in the heyday of the Triple Crown, okay, in the 40s, 50s, 60s, there was no problem.
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running these horses back in two weeks. As a matter of fact, there were a couple of Preakness winners, 1959 and 1960. They finished second in the Kentucky Derby. Then they come back two weeks later, and they win the Preakness with a race in between, with a race on Monday of Preakness week called the Preakness Prep.
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So back then it was normal, for example, for horses, the one, two, three finishers in the Kentucky Derby to all come back and run in the Preakness. Sometimes one, two, three, four, five in the Derby would all come back and run in the Preakness. Now you almost never see that. And it's really cheapened. the Triple Crown as a whole, because that's the way horses are trained nowadays.
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And that's why the schedule needs to be adjusted. And I think it will, not immediately, not next year, but maybe two or three years down the line. I think that's probably what you're going to see.
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Yeah, that's going to open up a can of worms. What you're referring to, like the load management thing and the baseball innings pitched and things like that, that's the performance issue. And there's part of that going on in thoroughbred racing, right?
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Todd Pletcher, for example, one of the best trainers in the business, he runs horses back nowadays on two weeks rest or less, four-tenths of 1% of the time. And the reason why? It's health of the horse, but also he has a 21% win percentage overall. When he runs horses back in two weeks or less, 5%. Same thing with Bill Mott.
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Almost exactly the same statistics with Bill Mott, the trainer of sovereignty. But it's primarily it's it's the problem here is it's it's performance based. It's also horse safety because they've done plenty of studies that show that horses are less inclined to become injured with more time in between races to recuperate.
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And let's face it, the Kentucky Derby is the ultimate stress test in horse racing for three year olds. But, you know, it's the health of the Triple Crown as a whole, really, is the bottom line. And this sport is not what it used to be. Everybody knows that. But it still has the Triple Crown. The Triple Crown is still a huge event.
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It's by far the most important thing horse racing has, the Triple Crown and the Breeders' Cup. And it's been cheapening because all the good horses that run in the Derby that used to come back and run in the Preakness, Doesn't really happen nearly as often anymore. And now you're seeing the Derby winners. start to skip the Preakness. Something's got to be done.
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Yeah. I mean, you love horse racing. There's nothing bigger in sports in general than rivalries, right? And we used to see when the same horses that ran one, two, three in the derby come back and run in the Preakness and then come back sometimes and run in the Belmont. You get these rivalries like Affirmed and Aladar and Easy Goer and Sunday Silence and Ali Sheba and Bet Twice.
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And it really captures the public's imagination to see these horses run against each other throughout the Triple Crown, which is what the Triple Crown is supposed to be all about. Now, in 2025, 2026, if Affirmed and Aladar run 1-2 in the Kentucky Derby, Aladar skips the Preakness and waits for the Belmont. Easy Goer skips the Preakness and waits for the Belmont. Bet twice, same thing.
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You lose the rivalry aspect of it, which is one of the things that has made the Triple Crown so great historically.
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It would be really nice if horses could talk and tell us that. They try to with the way they act and all that. Which is part of the reason why trainers don't like to run them back in two weeks.
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They think that the horses, after such a race like the Kentucky Derby, they think what they're seeing in the horse, the horse is trying to tell them that they run better, that they like it better when they're given a little extra time.
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He started reading his press clippings, huh? He said, no, no, no, no, no. I don't need to run back in two weeks. There are some horses here. Journalism finished second in Kentucky Derby. Sandman was the second choice. They were the top two favorites in the Derby. They're both coming back in the previous. This is – you can't see him now. That's Sandman's stall. I think he's out maybe –
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Walking around here. Sandman is a beautiful horse. Yeah. Sandman is a beautiful horse. Yeah.
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Oh, yeah, you got it.
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Oh, nice. I just got waved in.
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There he is.
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That is Sandman.
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Not me. Okay. Stall 26. There you go.
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Don't court, Sandman. This is called a jolly ball. Oh, what do they do? Horses get bored sometimes, and they like a little activity, you know? They'll bounce around that jolly ball a little bit and have fun.
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You know, the great thing about the Kentucky Derby this year is that despite the racetrack, despite the sloppy track and all the rain and all that, it was an incredibly formful race and easy to predict. I mean, we talked about it. I thought journalism, Baeza, sovereignty, maybe Sandman fourth, maybe Final Gambit is a big long shot. I think we talked about that.
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It was really predictable exactly what was going to happen. And wouldn't it be nice to see the top three all back here with Baeza as well to run in the Preakness, but it's a pretty good race despite that. Yeah, it would be.
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He's doing very well. I just saw him about five minutes ago. He suffers from, like a lot of people, from a pretty significant nut allergy problem. And he ate something, he doesn't even know what, about a half hour just snacking, about a half hour before he was scheduled to come on at 2.30 p.m. And he began having a pretty serious allergic reaction.
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I could tell as soon as he sat down next to me that something was off, something was wrong. He's normally real, you know, outgoing and ebullient and, you know, positive and let's go, let's go. And he was like very serious, like he was upset. And then you could tell as he got into the first couple of segments that he was really, really struggling.
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And that's a scary thing if you've known anybody that has a nut allergy. Yeah. You don't know which direction it's going to go. It can be pretty bad.
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Yeah.
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Nothing on the Friday undercard that I really like that much. Black Eyed Susan, there's a horse in there called Margie's Intention. It's not, honestly, it's not a really good Black Eyed Susan. In fact, it's one of the worst Black Eyed Susans that I've seen in a long time.
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in terms of quality, because again, I don't want to sound like a broken record, but the Kentucky Oaks horses, the horsemen don't want to come back and run in two weeks. So it's, it's a pretty weak field, but Margie's intention trained by Brad Cox, three to one, seven to two, something like that, I think. And to me, she looks like she's kind of solidly the best horse on paper in there.
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Yeah, there's a couple of horses on Saturday if you guys have any money left after I busted you at the Kentucky Derby. Well, you hit one of the oaks, right?
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I was okay with the Kentucky Derby. It's just the undercard races. I'm going to blame the off racetrack and the soft turf. How about that? That's fair. That's absolutely fair. It's probably not accurate, but at least it's fair. So we're going to get a ton of rain, as you guys pointed out. Or maybe that was before we started. The forecast is terrible for the rest of the week.
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Maybe Saturday might be okay. But the turf course is going to be really soft, and the racetrack is probably going to be muddy. And there's a horse in the gallerette by the name of Three Havannas. The gallerette, I think, is the first race we do on, I think it's USA or maybe it's CNBC, when we come on the air on Saturday. I think it's the seventh race on the card. Phillies and Mayors on the turf.
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It'll be soft turf. There's a Philly, three Havannas, who comes from Germany. She's never run in the U.S. before. And in Europe, they run horses on soft turf a lot more regularly than they do in the United States. And they typically have an edge coming over here on soft turf. So I think Three Havanas is a pretty good play. And then there's a horse in the race right before...
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It's a race called the Dinner Party. It used to be called the Dixie until political correctness caused Pimlico to change the name of the race. So the Dinner Party, there's a horse in the race named Neat. Just one word, Neat. And he is a pretty neat horse, but he had a horrible ride. in his last start, they changed jockeys. He's a pretty nice horse.
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Anyway, he only got beat two links despite the horrible ride. He's eight to one in the program and they, uh, they, um, you know, it's not the, it's not a super tough field. And so I think, uh, needs a pretty good play at that price. Okay.
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Preakness, look, journalism is the horse to beat. No doubt about it, right? If all things being equal, journalism is the fastest horse in the race. He ran a really good race in the Kentucky Derby. He just got outrun by sovereignty. He was a strong second. But all things aren't equal.
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Because journalism has had two or three really tough races in a row now, including the Derby, which was a really tough race. And he comes back in just two weeks. Usually in those situations, the horses might still run well, but probably usually not quite as well as they did in the Kentucky Derby.
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And there's another horse in the race called Clever Again, trained by Steve Asmussen, who might be the third favorite, maybe the fourth favorite. Who knows? But he's got speed. He's coming off a really strong race. He's had plenty of rest. He didn't run in the Kentucky Derby.
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And, you know, he might be a good play, I think, to take a shot against journalism on the theory that even though journalism is the best horse, that he might not perform quite as well in the Preakness as he did in the Derby.
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Yes.
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Well, let's see. There's a horse called River Thames, trained by Todd Pletcher, who did not run in the Kentucky Derby simply because they wanted to wait and save him for the preak mistakes. He's not really a mile-and-a-quarter type horse. He was only beaten three-quarters of a length by Sovereignty when he ran in the Fountain of Youth a couple of races back. So he's a pretty nice horse.
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And there's a horse that you, as a long shot, you might want to throw into your exactives and your supers. His name is Heart of Honor. He came from England by way of the UAE Derby. He's the kind of horse that he's probably not good enough to run first or second, but he's going to come from behind.
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He's going to be finishing decently, and that's oftentimes the recipe for a long shot to kind of sneak up into the top three or four at the end as some of the speed horses start to fade out.
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I'm not really high on Sandman just because I didn't like his Kentucky Derby, really. He was right next to Sovereignty when they ran into the second turn. Everything looked like it was perfect for him. And then Sovereignty just left him behind. I mean, he was probably side-by-side with Sovereignty going into the turn and maybe seven lengths behind him when they turned for home.
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All right, let's take one more look at him there. There he is.
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That horse is dialed. His ears just moved when you asked him that question. That's a good sign.
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There you go.
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Yeah, that's a good question. I know they have a hay rack for the horses to munch on and all that while they're on the road, while they're in the van. And they got plenty of water to drink to keep from being dehydrated and all that.
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And if they do have to stop and take a piss or maybe go through the McDonald's drive-thru window or something like that, I'm sure they go back there and check on the horse. That's really for longer van trips than just Louisville to Baltimore. But yeah, I mean, there have been plenty of situations where, you know,
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They've had to pull over and go to find a parking lot somewhere and take a break and check on the horse and everything. Yeah, pretty interesting.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, no, no, no. There's airlines that were dedicated strictly to flying racehorses around the world and around the country. Now they FedEx the horses.
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Seriously, they FedEx horses. There used to be a company called Flying Tiger. that specialized in transporting livestock, animals, zoo animals, back and forth, racehorses, you name it, circus animals. And FedEx bought Flying Tiger, and now FedEx is in the business of occasionally transporting animals. And when they ship a horse from California to the Kentucky Derby, they often FedEx them.
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Horses do not have a window. They hollow out the entire, obviously, inside. They put stalls in there. You can actually fly up to, I think, 15 horses, maybe, on a plane. That's... Yeah. That's a party. That's incredible. Yeah.
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And they have handlers in there with them, back flying with the horses to watch them and take care of them and calm them down if there's any turbulence and make sure that the horses are okay. You know, the stalls are very small, so they can't, you know, be knocked around if there's any turbulence or anything. But horses generally handle that air travel well.
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No, I'm not in the horse racing hall of fame.
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The horse racing hall of fame is in Saratoga Springs. It's almost right across the street from Saratoga Racecourse. Fantastic place if you ever want to visit. And I think they do have a wing, like a media wing, right? I think of it as Joe Hirsch Media, Role of Honor or something like that. And some people that I know really well that deserve to be in the Hall of Fame are in that particular wing.
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If I heard that, I would have corrected it. That must have been Nestor. Yeah.
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Nestor Eparito.
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Oh, and I didn't even bring my recurring guest shirt. Yeah.
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Okay. Send me a picture of that plaque when you get it up there, will you?
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Well, it's certainly not a legitimate Hall of Fame if Pete Rose is not in it. Absolutely there. Yeah. Yeah, right. That was a giant injustice.
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You're right. You're right. He probably contributed more to the sport than a lot of guys.
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I actually hung out with him at a racetrack one time. The guy knew how to play the horses. That's for damn sure. Yeah.
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All right, guys. Take care. Good talking to you as always.