Randy Moss
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396 appearances
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3 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard 1 May
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Yeah.
Yes.
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.
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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