Flightline’s big test

Mike & Louis welcome handicapper Dennis Trusty to the Happy Hour to discuss the Pacific Classic card at Del Mar.

Presented by Green Sheet Racing. Get yours at GreenSheetRacing.com. Saturday’s edition will feature Louis’s most likely winner, the favorite he’s against, as well as his favorite sequence.

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Alright, welcome to another Edition.

A September edition of the laundry.

Happy hour. Like in Davao here with Lugar

bow and Dennis trustee, who else called trustee trustee picks.

If you're familiar handicapper, extraordinary live from the

Pacific classic of his bedroom. It's so close.

You can see the Labor Day weekend.

September 21st Equinox. Oh, I'm an equinox, man, but

you're an equinox guy. Okay, have an equinox, man.

Yes, the only thing I don't reason I don't like that is

because that means like winter doesn't start until like right

before Christmas and it's not how I feel about it.

Yeah. So you have Thanksgiving as part

of winter. I think of I think September

October November is fall, December January, February is

winner. Okay, the meteor all that's

meteorological versus astronomical Seasons.

Like this is like the kind of great stuff you get on the horse

racing, happy hour. And at the end of the day it

doesn't really matter. I just know that falls.

Like when the weather is, when you wake up, you know, that

chill in the air, and you can like wear shorts with a

sweatshirt and there's college football, and the Leisure change

like, to me, that's the best season.

Look, it's their targets down this weekend, that's when fall

starts. Essentially, I'll go with that.

I like that. And speaking of fall, what is

your favorite fall treat? You guys come and spice latte

guy, I am allergic to Pumpkin. Okay?

But I do enjoy pumpkin seeds, I can eat those.

I can't eat the gourd part. Okay, so I'll go pumpkin seeds,

your pumpkin seeds. Got you have an assault guy, not

a sugar guy. So that's that's where I'm like

you're salty. Yeah, I'm Salty's.

Well, yeah. Okay, living the Salt Life.

Yeah, right trusted. You have a favorite fall treat.

Not just I mean basically pumpkin something with that has

to be included. Okay.

Some people. I'm not a pumpkin spice guy but

I love caramel apple. So it's like that's my piano.

I'm going to go with no peanuts because God daughter has a

peanut allergy who. Oh, that's right.

So and of course now she's we had the whole thing where we

dropped her off. I've had a lot of Life happen in

the last week. We dropped off last Friday.

We dropped my daughter off at College.

It was a lot more emotional. That I anticipate it like the

ride home was a lot of tears and reminiscing, and luckily, I

didn't break down in front. ever, you know, I made it

through but and then her coach who recruiter quit on to Monday,

What. Yeah.

Oh So you're going to coach or what's happening there.

Oh no, I'm not gonna be good, she's my good friends, it'll be

fired. So he made it, he made a family,

a family decision and that's good.

You know? And then of course, like, I just

appreciating what he's listening today because it's really, today

is really the first day of college football.

That, you know, North Western Nebraska debacle and Island,

doesn't really count. The, this is really when college

football starts, so you had college football going on, you

got the horse racing, happy hour.

A lot of people are doing their face.

He'd rather have my fantasy draft last night, you know, I'm

happy with it, I got Debo. So I'm happy when I understand I

give a cheer for my team. I thought that was part of my

strategy was get a couple 49ers not enough where like, the bye

week was gonna kill me, but then make sure I didn't get other

players from the, from the west, from the, from the NFC West.

So and, and I just also, I can make you, happy trustee.

I went ahead and took Mark Ingram with my last pick of the

draft there. It was still there.

Listen, he's like he's reliable right dudes.

Gonna catch passes well into if they're at the goal line, you

know, we can get it in. That's uh, yeah points.

So, you know, I don't know. - yeah, exactly.

They told the boss one thing and I don't think we have that right

now. I don't play Fantasy Football

too much. I never really got into it.

I like the pic himself but yeah yeah.

I don't do a thing. I don't do well with To see

sports stuff. So Louis if they ask you to be

in the ESPN 680 league. So, what's funny?

No, no, I don't enjoy fantasy football.

I think it's stupid. Love it.

I think it's complied. Oh, I don't love it.

I shouldn't have loved it. I just keeps me interested in a

Phillips. Makes it fun it.

More fun to watch Iowa of the majority on that.

I don't know these people. I am very much in the minority

on that. I just I don't enjoy fantasy

sports. Sorry.

All right before we go on like the one football thing I want to

talk about right now is that I love the fact that today the

backyard bra is back. West Virginia Pittsburgh is

playing right now which is probably one of the most

underrated robberies out there and they haven't played since

2011. When when pit join the ACC and

then West Virginia, went to the Big 12.

The next year in 2012, I love that game is back.

It's fantastic for football. I also love that they're playing

at week one. So one thing that I think you

can you vote get wrong and which content removal went back to

week young week one was the best and but it is what it is.

They're back, you know their last game of season as he sees

going to go to 99 games here soon and they might not have

that game ever again. I wish you can take him, Indiana

played again because Kentucky could use that W over a Big

Tuna. You know, minor league football

at its best, baby hundred thousand people watch, Molly

football, I didn't know what till recently that IU has the

least. As the worst winning percentage

in power 5 and they are five losses from 700.

Like and no one else is closed. It is it's I love it.

Okay, let's get into some racy from last week, we're gonna Zack

which race you have pulled off first just so I make sure that I

get it. Okay, great.

So we're going to start for some reason, Louis did not put

Jackie's Warrior getting upset by coders.

Wish the show sheet, which is which is ridiculous.

It's the it's a bigger story. Presenter.

Let's watch it right here. Jackie's work.

Warrior and putting it all late. Right here is Cody's wish on the

outside. Jackie's Warrior test that here

today Cody's wish on the outside, Cody's wish with the

upset in the Fargo, Cody's waste from off the pace with great run

right there by Cody's wish. Jackie's Warrior has really, no

excuses. You know, I was shocked but if

you listen to show, we told you better show and that's one of

the reasons why your boy said he's going to be 129.

He was 19. She'll get your nickel walk

away. That's what ended up hitting.

Cody's wish, story though is very cool.

I don't know if you know the backstory on that, but with the

Make-A-Wish, literally named after Cody, who was the

Make-A-Wish kid and was a cool picture of him watching that

race. And amen.

Grade one is a great one, and if you beat Jack, he's worried.

That's a great one Victory. That's her grade one.

David. A great walking.

That's right. Trustee any thoughts on that on,

Jackie's? Warrior getting upset?

I don't know. I find it that some of these

horses, can't be 100% every time.

Especially the more you run them and Jackie's Warriors.

Been raining a lot this year compared to a lot of other his

competitors. So I don't know, I think that he

got paste pressure from pipeline, Chad, Brown Source.

I mean, I know it's no excuse but I just don't think he was

fully 100%. I think they might go on a

little bit of a break. You know.

You got to get a break in there somewhere I think and just go

right into the Breeders Cup with him.

I won't even running another race.

Just go right in. Yeah, the way.

They did the if it's anything like two years ago, the way they

set up that dirt track for Breeders Cup at Keeneland.

It's a parking lot, he'll love it.

So you know it's a he should be a factor in the front this year.

Yeah, 100% with a green and I don't think yeah, they're

probably not going to race him again.

He's young Orion jet Sprint. Be ready to go and and there it

is. So, all right.

Well then, let's talk about the next.

Biggest story of the day and epicenter finally, get something

down when it is not a bad take episode, that's a bad Jackie's.

Warrior is much better. Is now three-year-old male of

the year and you're making it out that it's not a big deal.

I'm not saying it's not a big deal.

Jackie's Warrior getting beat to me is a bigger deal than

epicenter winning this race. It's It's losing Saratoga,

that's what happened. That happened, some absent in

one, got the great win, great one win.

So let's take a look real quick at epicenter in the Traverse

Zach's, not ready for us. All right, so it's okay Zack.

You know, exact actually just ran and hid.

I don't even know where he's at. You all can't see him.

I can see him. Yeah, I don't know where he is.

All right, so what happened, what happened in the epicenter?

I mean, epicenter was fantastic, right?

But who are you talking to me? Like, either one of y'all just

go. Somebody stole my saying, I'll

talk twice as great. All right.

So I guess I'll go. Um, you know, he won

impressively like you should have before and therefore

there's a race right here. We can see that.

Final turn cyber nice and control right here.

Which I needed to win. I had a lot of my all my bets at

CyberKnife point in CyberKnife is data.

It is epicenter in front and he is at the top of it.

Freeroll class office out there one the jim-dandy and he fucks

it up with a very top notch. All right, so as much as in

loses one wins one loses with Jackie's Warrior wins one with

epicenter trustee. What were you going to say here

about epicenters run here? Well, I was just going to say a

couple things I ever saw. Her will compress everyone.

Like you should have worn a couple times before.

The other thing is I think the ride Badger.

Ooh. Entire life was perfect because

if he was gonna run S, no matter what.

So he just went out there and went for it.

I don't blame for that. And lastly, being one of the few

people that actually did have Rich strike actually in the

derby. So, you did, yes.

Yeah. I did it cost me a Lonely by

legitimately are. Did you just like, have them

just because, hey, I'm gonna take a shot in the 50s on the 81

shot. No, I'm betting.

My turf voice. I was like, you know, I'll come

back and bite him again. Okay.

Okay, so I might be one of the few actually betting that Turf

way too, but that sounds wrong. So I built him.

A pill Tara, it was awesome. I'm still, you know, once they

get into his four-year-old campaign, if they run them and

they should. Yeah.

If they're if they're well, wouldn't you right?

I don't know if they get an offer whatever for breeding, I

don't know. They're not getting that.

I agree with you. But, um, you know, he could

become a mile-and-a-half specialist.

That horse loves to run, he's a doll called my plotter because

he does, he does, well, the ends of races, but he's plotter.

So if they get them in that vial and a half kind of class, I

think that he could actually pick off some more berries.

He could turn into a lone rock type, and have a derby on his

resume. I mean, that's, that's the kind

of work. You can turn out to be and I

hope they want them epicenter with the slowest.

Echo base speed figure in the last three years, and we'll

just, I just I'm gonna go back. I'm not sure how good this real

classes. So Erica is Mike, never likes

the three-year-old class so they think it's probably true.

Yeah. You love the 30 Philly class.

All right, we will go the race that I called it.

You know, we had gufo oh, what? We're gonna go we're gonna go

look Just come out that and okay, we'll do that.

That's how here's map. That win the personal inside.

And on the outside here is malafaia the as they come down

for the 16 pole, it is search results challenge here by

malathion on the outside, Malik got grabs the lead and deep

stretch and Malikov has won the person alone since takes search

results was second, let's ruska fated that the really important

things happen this week. As far as the Breeders Cup is

concerned, the class is unpredictable, and He's going to

be a very unpredictable race at Keeneland.

Second thing that happened is they've announced that by eat is

not going to run in the Breeders Cup and he's the best horse

going right now. He would have been probably the

easiest single in the history of the turf, more than bricks and

mortar. Wow.

The Breeders Cup and he's going to run on the arc and then he's

done and I don't like whatever. I get it.

I understand the scheduling and all that stuff.

That's fine. But that opened up that sequence

In an unbelievable way. Because the distaff now is if

not at all race, you're going to have to play four five.

No it's I was actually looking at Louis is now it's wide open

because they got really interesting this week for very

different reasons. I looked at the that distaff

field though earlier today, like the contenders and every single

one of You can make a case could win that race and that was in

that field. There's no question.

And, you know, we always talk about how it's always one of the

best races but this might be one of the best dis tasks of recent

history. And I thought what you're going

to say is that this was your favorite that you were against

on the Green Sheet and you retrieve three baby.

You are your favorite, the most likely winner.

The favorite you were against and then you hit your hit your

sequence. You know, luckily didn't have

the Jackie's Warrior Race in there, your dark, right?

So, because gonna get more Not the big five and yeah.

Yeah, I love it. So that was it Louie.

Louie, getting it done. And we, we talked about his

mouth that last week about it. You know, that this was the

horse that you couldn't leave off your ticket and was prop was

mouth at the fifth choice in this race forth forth.

Yeah, the cool part about that for sequence was that the two

obvious favorites Jack? Christopher at epicenter come in

Koufos, the pretty obvious second or third favorite in that

race, and then mail that comes in as the fourth base.

So, even in a very Essentially a double.

If you think about it that way, it's still paid, like three and

a half to one. So that's that's a pretty good

pat on the back for that. Yeah, I mean what do you think

about it mouth? That's run here.

I mean or that or that disapp class trustee.

It's just like you all said, it's just wide open.

I don't really have any faith in anybody.

I think the past two races and can I see her coming back?

One insurer? I mean it's just and she's

eyeing. My pic.

It's just this is just how bad they are.

I mean even their bed You need to Phillies are bad.

Okay? All right.

Drop off from the male's, the females this year, like the

males are stars and you know, who they are, it's obvious.

I'm but I'm totally on the opposite of this Iger.

Dennis, you don't think this female class is a good class?

I think it's a good class but I think we have an exceptional

dirt male class for the first time in a while.

Okay, well I agree with that. I agree that third or fourth

best horse and that horse is just picking races off as 11

off. That he comes back, he's too.

One on Saturday, in the Gold Cup.

I mean, no, this is a loaded field.

I mean, okay, absolutely loaded field for both races that's what

that's why this is a great sequence.

What come Breeders Cup time, but Nest, she tears, the devil mouth

that secret oath Cleary are blue.

Stripe, Inlet ruska are your 7 contenders right now?

For that distaff. I mean, that's class.

I don't know. So, do you have Zenyatta in

there? No, I'm here, maybe that's no,

but we're talking about, like, if flight line, especially if he

does something tomorrow on Saturday, we'll talk about those

- when we get there but like your would your like fourth best

horse in the in the the older males is like Country Grammar

who's a grade one winner and is going to show up I think on

Saturday in a serious way you know Olympiad etc etc.

It's a really impressive group going to the bus and sure.

Well we also just don't, you know how that those horses are

going to disperse, most the classic in the mile, you know.

Because most of them could go and either one, you know, the

mile in the class are give you really good.

At Keeneland to. So yeah, it's going to be

attracted some of these guys, for sure.

Yeah. But that's another reason why

this flight line race to me so important, right?

I mean because he won the Met mile but that's a one-term.

I'll and so now we're, he's got to go to turns the first time.

Look, that this is this is the most important to turn debut in

the Pacific classic in recent memory.

I mean not even close because usually horses, don't make their

freakin debut over two-thirds of grade, whatever it is, this

level, and they just don't. All right, let's see what race

week. Exactly.

I pull up next, he's keeping me on my toes.

I can't even read that. It's so blurry.

Okay, here's Koopa. On the outside is Soldier

Rising. Here comes to follow up to

challenge. Me, remission for the lead, and

to follow has got it goof. Oh by a half-length me remission

was second dolls. UFO does is Win Mana half races.

We said it last week, we pointed this one out.

You know how important it was that?

This is a specialist in Through gufo, it doesn't.

If it's a mile in, you know, 33 mile and a quarter.

Yeah, yeah. Right right.

Wow. 3/8. It doesn't matter.

Its Mana have gufo gets it done. Yeah.

You know I had tribute band and I had gufo but I didn't have the

other two there and man I was sweating that fit so I felt

really good if I got through that one, you know, I got

epicenter, I got CyberKnife, I feel good in the last there.

And so, but yeah, it was a, those down the wire, Google's

cool. Iceman won a bunch of money.

He'll probably go to study this year, but that's another one, I

think in that in that brings Comfort because by eat isn't

making the trip man. It sets up a really cool race

and frankly, there's a bunch of horses, have finished right

behind him, that that are going to be a problem to.

So when the truth of ends of the world, the try to think of well,

that feels that feels letter to for sure.

That's a loaded. That's a load of class which is

yeah, better better Turf racing in North America right now than

usual because usually we don't have horses that call.

Yeah or we have a bricks and mortar and no one.

Right, that's exactly right. Trustee.

I'm going to slightly kind of disagree and look at it as a

different way at kind of. I know gu phone obviously needs

this since I think he also needs her toga a little bit.

Hmm horse, for course, that, you know, he's done really well free

time. These are in there.

So I'm not going to say that. He doesn't need the distance as

well as he needs a little bit of Saratoga.

I think it's a little bit of both, but he's definitely kind

of impressive enough to He's got a shot in them, you know, the

turf in the rear speak up and I honestly, I wouldn't even be

surprised if the 10 years Mission.

Yeah, that's that was a pretty strong run out of that horse as

well. That's the kind of horse fills

out the trifecta superfecta, at the Breeders Cup.

And suddenly, you're talking about, 201 on a trifecta, that

kind of thing. Totally.

Yep. All right, then we'll the last

race. We're going to look at is Jack

Christopher in the Jerkins Jack in the jerky and 44 to 50

seconds. It is Con occur.

And here's Jack Christopher now to move, right along side,

running, son of a gun is down at the raladin.

Third guide is next in Forth as they come down for the Furlong

marker and it is Jack. Christopher who now gets away

from the field that is Jack Christopher in front.

Goodnight moves into second running son of a gun down at the

rail and third it is Jack Christopher back to sprinting

today back to win. Today, the grade 1 H Allen

Jerkins Memorial, handicap Jack, Christopher getting it.

Done really loves that horse. I'm gonna start crusty.

What do you think about Jack Nicklaus the race?

Because Lily loves horse cast on the, I understand.

Well, I will say you look, good, you look really good.

He's a sprinter or at least a mile or something like that and

I think gunite was really Kind of prove that he Longs in some

kind of conversation not that he's I don't think he's better

than that. Christopher.

I think he was just, you know, he might close out something.

Again, a pretty horse I don't think that really benefits him

in the Sprint but I think you can close out something.

So All right, so so what I'm getting from trustee is he's he

learned a lot of the horses that finish, you know, second third,

and fourth more so than even some of these winners.

I mean, I would you say I mean, I think there's a lot there to

look. We're talking about grade ones,

and that's an important thing to worry about, you know?

So the fall meet for example, I'm trying to find three and up

going a mile over the dirt. So it's a great three.

I mean, a horse like gun, I could run into Saluki, for

example, at Churchill Downs. That's the one turn mild.

That could be a really Spot for him.

I think any race where you're getting into that seven,

furlongs a mile. One turn sort of set up for him

sets up really. Well I don't know if their

connections want to run them in a Grade 3 luckily it's Churchill

Downs was three hundred thousand dollars, you can take them 180

thousand dollar check that kind of thing so you know that might

be a spot you know getting into November if they don't want to

run him before that. But you know even at you know

that I mean Christ, there's so many races where, you know, he

can be he could be in that are listed Stakes that are like 85

and 300,000 at Churchill Downs. He wants to pick one of those

out, you know, it would be a really good spot for him.

Is the ack-ack. October 1st, Churchill Downs,

one mile, it's 300,000. It is a great three, but you

could do that one. Then you could aim for the

Saluki later. I mean, do those back-to-back

run that mile run? That one turn mile.

So you see unlike you should shy away from being a short Sprint,

I would not read. Yeah, I'm kind of thinking.

Now, looking at that horse, go to tires.

If so I mean ass. You some, you know, Oklahoma

Derby, that could be another golf, some some way.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know what?

Actually he's three, isn't it? Gosh, I'm doing this wrong.

You know, for three-year-olds, I mean the the yeah, we don't want

to run them on the turf here she Jus.

So I'm watching it a darrenrodgers email.

I only ask questions put them in the Sprint.

Okay. I mean, I mean trustee, do you

think Jack Christopher's? Would he have beaten Jackie's

Warrior on Saturday? No Jack.

What are you doing? Jack, Chris for a gunite, check

restaurant, okay, beaten. How good was that performance?

That's what I'm getting at. What do you think?

Jackie is wearing on Saturday? I was looking at gunite.

I wasn't what I was just talking about gonna die.

Yeah, what I'm getting at. Is he finished a length behind

that horse, right whatever. No question was that run.

Because if he was better than Jackie's Warrior on Saturday,

then, yeah, you said you send both of those guys to the I get

it but I don't I don't know. The Jack Christopher was better.

The jacket Warrior he was running against three months.

I think that point and I would agree with that Jack Christopher

to to me is also probably better off.

I don't know. I mean, because Jack Christopher

could go to Sprinter on the mile and the Breeders Cup but you

don't think Jackson scored two goals in the Breeders Cup at

all? I don't think, no, I think he

does. I think it goes in the Sprint.

He's not doing it to turn Mi that would be a bad job, okay?

All right, racing, man, that day always Traverse a is always.

Also they do the job. It's really, yes, it's okay.

Jack's of all miles. I thought you liked my Jack in

the Jerkins piece there. Zach, I was a little upset that

you didn't like that, you know, I'm going with the masturbation

humor touch that but you know, whatever.

All right, hey, let's talk real quick.

We're gonna go talk about our green, sheets handicapping

segment. Now make sure you're going In

street racing.com and getting your pics.

And let's see if we can do it two weeks in a row where he gets

his. Most likely winner is favorite

he's against and his seek. Are you going to pick for?

You're gonna pick five on this one, right?

Doing a pick five baby didn't like the class.

Absolutely. So we're going to give you for

the force takes race is we're going to talk about those.

There's the fifth race has an optional claimer that we're not

going to talk about, so you have to go to Green Sheet racing.com

and get that pic to get the whole sequence from Louis, which

Usually means you bet $84 to win ninety six dollars.

And by the way, our guy Dennis our guy Dennis, I don't want to

do this since like making cakes and joke for the 78 is trust

your heart trust. He's got his own picks, man.

Go find trustee as well. Our advice is always get as much

information as you can get to the get, you know, get to the

PPS. Look at them, get your own

opinion, grab a Green Sheet, look at it, get get trustee

stuff. You don't put it all together,

make your best, most informed. Spend the time don't just don't

just tap on your phone, don't do that, you know, be better with

all the information that you can get.

Dennis is a great resource for that and of course we're going

to. We're going to point you toward

the green shoes and that's what trust me.

It's like they didn't owe you 5 bucks and some pics.

Is that what it is basically basically?

Yeah I do that a lot sometimes I do free.

So I mean it just depends and I'll say this too sometimes you

want to take the green sheet and then take mine and throw them

onto the ground and use the Green Sheet.

Without information style, Dennis caps more of a value

style. So if you could put those

together in a ticket actually there's a lot of value there.

So it's just that value twice. But there's a lot of we have

different opinions is what I should say.

And I that's why I like dust Dennis why.

I like this because it is a it's a different style.

All right, so let's head out to Del Mar and talk about the, the

four stakes races. All there's actually five steaks

racing car. We're gonna talk about four of

them and we're going to start with the gray to Del Mar mile.

Now, Louis, we talked about the horse racing happy hour class

system. And to me, this is not a great

to even though we have the last winner of the Pacific classic.

And the last winter of the Del Mar handicap, and after they won

both, those races have not done jack shit and By the way, that's

a, that's a trend right now in the Pacific class.

If you win the Pacific classic and then don't do anything

afterwards. So, four out of five.

Last of the last specific classic winners have never won a

race after that. How many weights are the

breeding said like, no? No, no.

I mean, you're seeing like horses that have, right?

I mean maximum-security ran two more times and that was it.

But never won again and that, that was the fewest amount of

times after that. So Maxwell the cigar mild a year

before he won the The Pacific has got it.

Okay, I'm just trying to get my chronology in order there.

Okay. So Tripoli is not won since I

mean, this is not a great to to B.

This is a, this is a great three probably.

So, what do we think about this races?

I mean, there's Tripoli break that streak and actually become

get a win after the Pacific classic whom.

And by the way, I am such a fan of Dennis's.

I want Dennis to go first on these.

I want people to hear Dennis because this guy doesn't get air

time. I get air time because of this

silly podcast. So let's have data scope

personal. Well, I will say this, the six

last time, R and blistering. Fractions, this is sawed off.

And if, if that horse runs that race, which I don't think that

he will Goliad. Good luck, everybody else in the

field. I just want to point that out.

First and foremost totally wrap the nine.

I mean, I just don't like the nine, I don't know what, they

even know what to do. At this horse, what I mean by

that is the horse was on Turf and he's on dirt and he's back

home turf then he's back on dirt and you don't know you don't

know. So I don't think that that horse

is very good. I think the horse actually might

want to retire sometime soon and lastly I'll talk about the five

who I would consider. Probably my top pick in the race

Hong Kong Harry. I consider this horse undefeated

why. If you look at the comment

lines, pinball check early last timeout.

Finished second. So ran a good race could have

pulled up. And then every other race in

that was a win and stocking off the pace.

You know, not crazy too far behind but not, you know, on the

lead. So I think that that horse is

probably going to be the force. That is the one to watch out for

in this Delmar Delmar mouth. And I think you're totally right

plus, he plucks. He picks up Flavia and right and

that's a to be a big positive. We watched earlier this year

done, just that. Remember what I read went out

and rode for a day and he picked off both grade 1 Ins and did all

that actually Flavia to do a little bit of that this weekend.

And so I think he's getting a jockey upgrade from Ramon

Vasquez. Last time you rode the horse was

in an optional claimer over a mile, and an eighth, and a buck

forty eight, really impressive time, first time in North

America and so, it makes sense that he would be the favorite

here. The only horse, I think that you

didn't mention is the three irid AO the Argentine bread.

One Last Time Out, has back-to-back 90 to 95 Beyer

speed figures, did win in a in a restricted Stakes.

Tell Mark over this course right and I always look at that, it

was a little bit slower that horse did get the lead very,

very late in the race, which is interesting because usually the

horse is a front-runner. I like it with horses can do

multiple things. He seems to be one of those

horses, one win in four runs though.

This year, I do like his form at Del Mar, so that's kind of where

I'm going with that. You mentioned a horse.

For course, earlier it at Saratoga with gufo I kind of

feel that way about him here. I'm going to include Tripoli in

my ticket because it Feels like the kind of horse that's going

to go off at 12 or 13 to 1. And if it's the one day that the

bleep and thing actually works out, I'm gonna feel stupid if I

leave them off. And so I'm actually using I'm

even five horses here at the pick five Hong Kong, Harry lost

a masterpiece who will also see later on in that in the

handicap. So yeah, alright the the next

race that we're going to talk about because we're going to

skip the optional claiming race and go straight to the Del Mar

Derby at great too. By the way, random It's not

random reason to buy the form. I'm against the favorite in that

race and I'll tell you why and race hsn.com.

Yes. Alright.

So, there you go. That's the favorite.

You're against his and race eight.

So I make sure you get that formed Grace and so am I

underneath for the seizure Sportsbook Delmar Derby?

This is a great to Turf course. They use.

That kind of funky shoot going through the cuts through the

infield to our. Yeah.

Yeah. Two and a half turn right.

Who do we like in this race? You want?

That trust you go first. Well, I guess I kind of like a

little bit on the rail. I think the horse is going to

get us a nice setup. Honestly, I'm more of a negative

person. I like being honest, this is, I

don't really love this field because I'd probably, yeah, I

think everybody looks the same besides that to, I think the two

is just going kinda running contr.

The first time it's a dark horse.

I don't really like that horse ever.

We lost trustee there may be temporarily, so he's freezing

honest. But a little you want to want to

come back. Okay.

Sorry. Um, I'll just was saying that.

I think everybody looks the same besides the to in the forever.

You can talk me on to anybody in this race and I don't know.

This is a handicap and show but take them all in all.

I'm punching. All of the odd horses.

In this race one, three, five, seven eightt, so I'm going to

have some coverage I'm with you man.

It's a bit of like okay, well he did that but this other horses

down that so like for example the three Wards see three

straight wins Dennis I'm sure you like a horse that just wins

right, you know a horse that wants to be out front.

Stay out front that kind of thing overtake horses.

You get Mike Smith has hit the board.

All five runs this year, you get Dandy Warhols.

Again I think there's a chance Lobby and Pratt goes out there.

And just has a day horses, run twice in North America.

First time running doesn't doesn't doesn't run to, well

comes back. When's it Dundalk for the maiden

race, they bring them over Stateside runs in an optional

claimer last time out ads. Elmar over this course and wins

charging at the end. So if there is a pace battle up

front, that could be your winner.

Here McKinnon is a is a really interesting horse and this is a

Doug O'Neill special. Good luck figuring out what his

plan was with this horse horse went up and ran in the El Camino

Real derby with a hole with the hope of being on the Triple.

Crown Trail was the favorite in that race, big-time Blackadder

jumps up and wins that race. The synthetic there.

Do they decide not to run the horse in any of the races out

east comes back and then runs a very disappointing fourth in the

ocean side but that horse is really talented.

Was really good before those two races they gave me a little bit

of time off. He's frankly second off the

layoff here. That's actually really good

angle with Doug O'Neill and then ball knock off the u9.

Get some bear. Do you have to trust you Peridot

on the turf in Southern California, teams up with Phil

D'Amato, they're hitting it. 29% at Del Mar.

Right now. So I'm all the odds here, in, in

the derby. Excuse me, and so 1357 night.

I don't think I've ever said that I'll just show.

How about that? We're coming up on our third

year, a three-year anniversary. I've never said that before.

You're unbelievable. I just think you know I'm just

so impressed. All right, so we're going to

move on to tomorrow. You don't okay like your

daughter going to college. I'm actually I'm not feeling

okay Maalik order. Is the Pacific class if the TVG

pursuit of classic. Like, like I said, there's been

so impressive winners of this race, but they just never gone

on to do anything outside of that after they won this race.

Last Philly to win this race, by the way.

Oh, I don't know the answer to this.

It's in Beholder. Say this Beholder.

Oh yeah it all I love it. Now we got horses here.

We're obviously we got the lightly race flight line that

everyone swears the best horse in trains going to turn to the

first time against three horses that go against each other, all

the time, really? For the classic distance from

the first time, right? And going to classes for the

first time against for really good horses.

Royal ship look great last timeout but has never won

back-to-back races. Country Grammar is Country

Grammar. He's a great horse and you know,

we got Express trains to little boy Royal.

So, you know what happens here, trustee it again, see

Flightline. Why don't we do our normal thing

where we go to the big race, and we decide if they were Contender

or not a contender, all right, we'll start with extra hoped in

his extra, hope a contender or Pretender.

Yeah, I don't want that horse today.

Okay. All surprise under hungry for

Country, Grammar Contender. Yeah, big time.

Yes. A Kyle of his effort last time.

He just needed an extra for a long and he's getting it here.

Yes I loved Royal ship and San Diego handicapped but I'm going

to say he's a pretender in this race.

Whoo I'm going to go down with Titanic.

I mean the Royal Chef I'm take out that actually is the horse I

like but I know we'll get to that in a second.

I don't know now is the time do house, not go.

Okay. Well yeah I've got all this trip

I'm going with I'm gonna be drowning.

So that's your that's your guy. Here's here's the deal.

Here's the deal and I want to point this out.

Again, Dennis is the value handicapper, he sees this horse

that 821. He sees the PPS.

He sees this horse having done well, over two turns at delbar,

right? And recently frequently with a

102 buyer, he sees this, he sees Mike Smith and this is where

dentist is is unique and is handicapping and I appreciate it

horses working. Well right now, by the way, all

everything adds up that this horse is going to run a good

race, you just have to believe on this day that he's going to

be better than the other horses in this race.

I would take Country, Grammar ahead.

Royal ship if we're doing that right now.

I love Country Grammar after his last run I said to Mike man he

might be a single the Pacific classic and then they mentioned

that flight line was coming so and I agree with what Louis just

said, I love Royal ship in the handicap.

That's true. Do not you know like I said he's

never won back-to-back races and he's never won at him on a

quarter. He's you know, he's more on the

mound of 16th kind of modern eight actually - 16th a mile and

a molony. Those are his wins.

So That's that's kind of why I'm against him on here, but I can't

fault you for like I said, he has look really good lately, so

I've but I would lean on Country Grammar.

All right, Express train Contender are Pretender.

I mean, it's a 50/50, I mean, the horse runs good, but I would

say, for tender against this field, I think Contender, he's

345 lifetime at Del Mar crippled buyers peapickers last three

times out of you care about those, but two losses in that

time, he's been the favorite. The last three times.

He's running. He's lost his two, little boy,

turns me off a bit. That's the problem.

And by open mics frankly. And so I think he's a kid, never

mind pretending. I'm torn on this one though to

Louis because the speed figures are really good.

Yep. Ain't he he's one of them on a

quarter before. He's three, four, five of Delmar

i-i'm. I'm gonna go kid.

Yeah, 20% Which off Sheriff's do, all of if you want.

Look, this is the race. You're gonna have to make a

decision in sequence. You use Flightline.

Do you go against? That's a decision in this

sequence. If you're if you're Dennis,

you're gonna go against it, I get it.

I understand the gambling aspect of taking the horses that are

going to have longer odds in the spot Express train though, to

me, if you're going to go against has to be an inquiry.

Okay, so I'm going to say contender on, I'll go container

on the express train and then we're at Flightline.

Obviously mean, they'll hang on, don't say obvious, okay, that is

futile. Say obvious I'll say, flight

line is a very good horse, he's improving knowledge, it's kind

of like it. Look if you really like, flight

line, Just stay out of this race in my opinion, if you like him

as a horse, stay out of the race because this is really

everything you need to know. Because as a bedding

perspective, you have no reason to be betting him at 125 in the

spot, but them to show was what? Yeah.

Bring the show. Yeah, I think he's seriously,

but then, there's that part of me that saying he's never done

it before, and obviously he's a good company.

Yeah, and he's facing good company wants.

What makes it tougher, because he's facing good company.

So, I'll say contender, but obviously, But bad you think

he's you vulnerable vulnerable Contender.

Yeah. Yeah, you're not bad.

Enough to win it. You know, 125 dead is shrouded,

by the way, I put on our on our Twitter feed that the pole.

Are you okay with flight line at 125 80% of people were okay with

the 20%? We're not.

Dennis is in that second Camp, right?

No, way 125 is okay. I'm actually the second Camp.

I don't think 125 is. Okay.

Honestly, if you can get Country, Grammar for 21.

That makes this race playable to me because I think he's the best

of the to turn proven horses in this race.

He thinks it's Royal ship. That's way better value than

what I've been talking about. I think flight line is going to

show up in a serious way. I trust Bobby and practice, slow

him down and not run, 22, who in 45 over the first turn and try

to figure it out. I think he's look tap it on top

of any Charlie on bottom. I really trust him to be to be

to be built for this. I don't love that he runs every

Three years or whatever. His this is the second race in

2020, but, but all of those things said, I think he's the

class the race, for sure. What we're gonna find out which

race, he's going to go to in the previous game after this.

Oh no. Oh yeah, that's that's the whole

point here. Is he gonna do the classes?

You go on the mile and it's going to come down to or and or

the Sprint frame for the Sprint on all three laughing.

Yeah. So I'm contender in this race.

I mean there's Their horse racing, people who fails, if he

fails on Saturday, he makes the Sprint a lot less interesting at

the Breeders Cup pregnant. Yeah, we talked about, we talked

about two classes being more interesting.

With the distaff. It with the turf, he could make

it a lot less interesting. If he runs really, if he was

really poorly on that honestly, Fe runs so bad that he does run

a Sprint. I wouldn't even mind seeing

Jackie's, Warrior Jack, Christopher.

Go to the mall to say, uh, I can't beat him.

I would. All right stiletto, boy, I'm

going to go for tender over three of domar.

And, oh, Three of the distance does have that one recent win

over Express train at Santa Anita, but I'm going to go

pretend neurons to little boy. I think that was just as

one-time shot right there. Yeah, he's a little boy to be a

contender for the first half of the race and then nothing to the

last half of Love, is probably right.

That's right. He's gonna be the one that would

push flight line on the front. I am also Contender still a

little boy, I guess if some for some odd reason, they got a

whole bunch of rain at Del Mar, I guess that would make emic

potentially a contender right in San Diego, right?

Right? In San Diego.

Exactly. I we're going to go back to the

turf Mile and 38. so just to recap on that one, Hoosier your

absolute pick in the handicap, Are not in the handicap, but in

the end, the Pacific classy. Go ahead, Lily, fine.

Line here, I'm trusting the form.

I'm trusting the breeding I think lately, okay?

Trust, if you want to sorry I had something that what what

happened? Who is your, who is your pick in

the Pacific? Classic are you know, Country

Grammar? I mean that's a good chance.

So I don't hate either one of them to horses.

I was gonna say if you're going against Flightline, the two and

the three of the horses to use. I all right, let's move on to

the Del Mar handicap. It is small and three eighths on

the turf and we get it. We get a son of a great are

here, which I mean, look, look, I mean, if you want a single in

this sequence, his name is Greg daughter.

He's a son of great are A favorite on this show bread for

four thousand dollars. Obviously your winner in a Grade

to trustee. I hope you understand that.

That's a very very loud joke that we have on the show.

Go ahead give us. He is too poor to do more

though. You know I like him dude.

Earth. All right.

So who's our who's our? Pick in this race?

I guess, starting off with me I would say probably the 10.

I like the 10. Well it's goes back to the Hong

Kong hairy thing. If Hong Kong Harry wins and I

got I like the horse even more. If that horse loses.

Well then you know I kind of don't like him as much

obviously. Ah, and then the horse had beat

Hong Kong Harry and the pin as well Master Roxanna.

Yeah, it's a masterpiece. Right.

So that's right. Yeah, I don't hate that horse

either. I just think that was kind of

flu he last time out at 16 1. But yeah, I think I think the

race goes through the Eddie read.

Okay, so those two horses, essentially 8:50 for you, okay

man this is where I'm going to get daring on this.

I'm gonna single Masterpiece in the last okay I don't think it

was a fluke at all I think I love Abel cedillo you get you

know second off that layoffs 21% with Mike McCarthy and when they

win the last start it's 15%. So I'm going to lean on that

horse. That's my value play of the day

frankly is to single in this last race because Generally

speaking a mile and three Aces kind of a strange strange bird

itself. He's finished second one time at

97 speed figure. He's a win.

And a second at Del Mar seems to like the course finished second

in this race last year. Yeah, I remember that correctly,

Delmar handicap, a ran second last year behind astronaut who's

a significantly better horse than anyone in this field.

So to me Masterpiece is your is your finisher here.

So I'm going single single to end the sequence here.

Okay. So at the same time even though

it's on the show sheet, we have two other Breeders Cup challenge

race is going on at Saratoga. One is also for the classic that

has Olympiad in it. Do you see anybody threatening

Olympiad in that race because I don't?

Oh, yeah. Okay, I'm kind of figuring that.

I think he is really good. I saw him, love it, Turtle

through both. You did as well.

Yeah. And that was pretty impressive.

And again, these horses can't be 100% every time.

So, I went and it was against life is good.

I think this is actually one of the real test that he needs to

pass an order. Say, he's truly a contender and

yeah, I really don't think there's anybody else in the

race. Now I know they're doing

Evolution baby. Yeah I don't like American

Revolution. I think he's I think that cigar

mile puts people into a class that they're not it's a 1 turn

mile, I think Dynamic one is the horse here that's that if

someone's going to catch him is going to be him.

It is a at a mile and a quarter at Belmont.

That's one turn buddy wins at Churchill Downs in the blame

over two turns. I think if anyone's going to

catch him, it would be dynamic when the eighth in that race.

And so I went pretty straightforward.

Me, I went to Libya had the two and then the eight Dynamic.

One on top, I had to do that for the AVR picks this weekend.

Okay. Did you also have to be the

flower bowl? I did not have to do the flower

bowl. Okay.

The Fireballs, the other one that's, that's Korea to.

Yeah, that's another British do challenge race.

Capital structure, Flanagan's kovrigin, enjoy warlike goddess.

Kostina Temple. City Terror in The Marvelous

mod. This is a loaded field.

This is a legit great to. Yes.

Absolutely. If not, if not a great 2 plus, I

mean, it's yeah, it is, it should be.

I mean, right. I mean, absolutely.

Yeah. But, you know, I will say too, I

guess I'll take myself on this. I believe it or not, I was on

more like goddess. I said this is probably one of

the best top ten horses I've ever seen back in October at

Churchill, and she won with October meaning, like 2020.

Yeah. When Rain was riding her, and I

was like, oh my God, she is huge.

And then she turned out to be really good.

And I was like, oh, so I was right about one pilot but now,

so I gotta love for that horse, so I guess that's the one I

gotta pick. Right?

Why me, she's coming to 25 in this race is what?

Her morning line is an active. What's that saying of or

singular? All right, I love it.

I mean the odds say yes on that. I can't believe it Denizen.

I agree. There you go.

Alright, go at it. If anyone picks it off its

Virginia Joy, just because you got I read and he's gonna, there

are no rules in New York for him.

He can do whatever the hell we want.

And so, so that would be the other horse.

You can just knock knock people over, you know, all he ran into

the rail, we don't care, you know, whatever.

So yeah, if anything happens, it would be for you to join.

But last time out, she finished third behind more like goddess

and Temple City. Terrorism is race Temple, City

tears. An underrated horse, man.

She's really great. Yeah.

And you know six-year-old still running five wins 26 times

running but she's hit the board 15 times and 26 runs is she's

just a gamer expect her with Lee with Louis eyes to be part of

the, I don't know. Probably the trifecta, I would

guess. And so but I'm with I'm with

Dennis on this one more like goddess is the class of the

stretcher. Louis what are your kids doing

right now? Since they're home alone and

you're outside smoking, cigars, and talk about their I guess

they're watching a movie on Netflix.

Netflix since I had to not, let them watch YouTube anymore

because I learned the horrible truth about YouTube children.

So I figured the teach you something.

They did, I they were watching videos about Peppa Pig dentist,

you know what Peppa Pig is. Very little.

Okay, that's good. Your life is better for it.

So the popped up a video where the pigs were murdered in the

video? And I had to deal with.

I had to deal with kids who couldn't fall asleep and

nightmares for a week because of some bleep in YouTube video

about murdering Peppa Pig family and making bacon.

So, that's my life. This is the modern Digital Life.

It's not worth it. It's not worth it.

Don't live podcast. Don't do any of these things.

It's terrible right away. What do you got?

A Green Sheet racing. That cam Green Sheet.

We can have a lot of That's right.

And you get your trusty pics. Also, make sure you're looking

at Dennis underscore, trustee on Twitter and then just send them

Cinema venmo and he'll send you some pics.

That's that's all you got to do. Look.

I honestly, you know, there are and Dennis and I have talked

about this, it is very hard to be in horse racing with a last

name. Like Robo or last name, like

trustee or last name. Like Adolfo.

We're doing it. We're out there.

And it's it is, it is cool that Dennis is involved in the The

Zeitgeist of horse racing that he's involved in the

conversation, the national conversation.

Dennis gave me a really, really cool complement earlier today.

And I won't share that publicly, but like it is it is hard to

break into the sport. If your dad's not a trainer, if

you're whatever, you know. And so it's fun to be on with

the three of us doing this thing because we just love the sport,

you know? We again, we part the horse

part, the, the whatever. And so, you know, coach Come

out, Dennis other sport, Rusty on Twitter and go get his picks.

Because like I said, get all the information you can get all of

it because he thinks differently he caps differently than I do.

And that's a cool opportunity and so keep it up man.

You're doing a great job. Thank you.

Thank you. I appreciate that.

By the way, if you're ever at Churchill Downs and you're

around me. Dennis will eventually find me?

It's amazing. Like, I feel like every time I

think, I just get it. but yes, I would say yeah,

because we are So amazing. I mean, it's definitely true and

true. And again, like you said, not a

trainer not no hot water. Well then, I guess you don't.

But now, it's really, it's really cool.

And even to seeing all these great horses, even the ones that

my dad worked with it shipped elsewhere.

And one of the stakes race at Pimlico Preakness weekend and

well, we won. The would buy notes to with a

horse that he's worked with. So, So it's really cool.

But then the very next day you got to get up and go at it and

keep hustling. And that's kind of what horse

racing is about. Is just got it.

No matter what happens. You got to keep grinding, keep

going, keep pushing. And I mean Dennis's family is

that part of horse racing? That you don't see on TV you

don't see when the races are going off but is so integral to

what we get to enjoy and all those things.

And I mean if you need it if you need a key at Churchill Downs

that's that's that is trustee. I mean like we need to get it.

Yeah it was it was what are you doing?

Nobody nothing right now but yeah I used to be that you

that's what Hey listen. That's why we had to keep a

watch on Lulu. Here he was at all times.

I like that all the time. All right, what's a?

Let's pay the tab. Let's get out of here, guys.

Thanks a lot for a great show and we'll see you next time on

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