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Welcome in audio, only addition horse racing, happy hour.
I'm Lou Mirabeau alongside - I'm Megan, how are you?
I am fine. You know, we this is a different
format than what we have been doing but it's it's what happens
when the adults leave us. You know, when they're
responsible humans IE Big Fudge like Adolfo or producer
extraordinaire JD Fox cannot attend.
The horse racing happy hour and This is the result.
I also said, alongside and I mean, we're zoom, zoom side.
Is that side? I'll go, I'll go with zoom deep
in the bunker. That is my basement, I say
bunker, I'm spoiled, I've got this like room to myself with
nine foot ceilings and shelves and real, right?
I mean next to my bar and now everyone's go ahead drink, but I
am in the media bunker down here in the basement and Megan and I
are going to be hanging out Rich.
Had a little bit about that, awesome Belmont card the, you
know, the class class, don't class and we got class right
class. Except for I think one race.
I think you could point to as an upset, but it was a race that a
lot of us talked about as the spread race.
And of course, we'll be checking out this weekend.
We're going to look out at those Futurity and debutant races out
at Santa Anita along with the Santa Maria.
Steaks, there's a great three at Belmont.
The modern Wade girl, first time ever overnight Stakes for
three-year-old. Phillies at Churchill Downs.
There's, there's a horse in that race Megan that I'm very excited
about never going to have to Monmouth, which, for
essentially, the Haskell preview day that they are doing and we
just had Stephen Foster preview day at Churchill Downs.
And then we'll go out to Monmouth for their version of
that with the Haskell preview today.
And so, the Belmont is in the books are Triple Crown season is
in the books. Megan modal goal wins?
I think to no one's surprise in your philly, ran really well
with a good second place finish. Yeah, I was He's really excited
to see the results of that. Unfortunately didn't get you
watch the priests live had to do this to do this Bourbon Festival
event. That's right for one of my
clients and I when I tell you that I was lost like deep deep
in Kentucky. I mean the big mistake was the
facility that we had the event at didn't have any cell phone
service for me specifically with my carrier other people seem to
have. But some some other people I
should say, but no Wi-fi, no cell service.
So what I should have done is plugged in my destination home
when I left the facility because I did.
All right in one room and I didn't and I didn't do that and
so really it's on me. But then I just had to like rely
on landmarks that. I thought I may have seen on the
way in and by landmarks, I mean like the house with the pretty
flower box, you know. No.
Look, it was by no means the post office turn, right?
It was like things that my brain somehow remembered and was like,
oh well that's really nice, you know, I don't know if that's
like, girl intuition directions or what it is, but I did make it
about most of the way. And then I took a wrong turn and
that will be so deep into ducky to basically keep following this
back road until I hoped I found an interstate or like hit
another Well, I just gone back to play by play of the novel
over the phone, right? And you've watched the replay,
I'm sure you know what's interesting.
You know you've been hanging out with me and Dan Issel on Friday.
So if anyone's in the Louisville area you can check us out on 680
and World 5 7 10 to noon on Fridays together Dan and I had
waned Lister on this earlier. This week he bred the first and
second-place finisher. I know that's the Belmont
Stakes. I know just tearing it up and I
asked him, how much did you have on the exact?
And he's Like, oh no, I didn't bet the Exacta.
I'm like, what are they doing here?
Why do we have this guy? Had he been on the happy hour
out of been like, okay, and that was waiting list or have a good
night, but I know he's on with, he's on with Dan and his
buddies. And I told Dan that, I prefer
that this happened this week, by the way.
I told Dan that I prefer Churchill to Keeneland and
someone texted into the shown it was perfect.
They said Louis, you may as well just insult one of Dan's
children and it's so he's like, that's it.
I'm taking you to Keeneland in October.
I hope you own a jacket and tie, and I'm like, damn, I'm the only
one who wears button down to this place and so, apparently,
I'm getting a full booze experience at Keeneland in
October. So everyone in Lexington are
number one marketing. Kentucky heads up, I'm coming
your way. All of my weird needless
besmirch, man and of Keeneland with me and Dan Issel, and I
just look for the 7-foot guy with the 5 foot nine, squatty
Flemish, guys. So there you go.
By the way we do, that is the thing.
It is going to be fun. Reminder, we are brought to you
by single. Cigars.
We will have our normal segment with Green Sheet racing with
Megan and me, giving out our most likely winners of the week.
Some old Donegal passes. We the people I thought to be
Longstocking ran a really good race.
I thought one of the more interesting.
So we had we had some horses that we expected to.
Wow. Wow, Jack Christopher.
Wow, Flightline. Wow.
Clary hair. Put herself Square in the
distaff discussion. I thought this past weekend with
her showing in the Ogden Phipps. What says Megan Divine about
Claire. Yes.
Yes. I, you know, we talked about her
and she was the one who kept going back and forth on because
it really did look like in her last race that she was in.
Proving that she, you know, showed all the signs of like a
bigger and better horse this year and that is exactly what we
saw. You know, obviously the pace of
certainly help that out too. But, I mean, she, she's a beast
this year. So yeah, certainly puts herself
in the conversation but I was like, kicking myself because
both You and I went back and forth on that horse.
So many times on the different shows that we did.
And obviously had our faith primarily elsewhere.
But she was the worst that we both said, if there's an upset,
it's going to be Clary. ER, and what's interesting is,
I've said on this show and on other shows that her running
style is just different enough from the other runners in that
class, in the distaff class that she can pick off some of these
races, right? So the truth could goes on front
and it's fast and she can't keep can't keep it going the whole
time. Well, if that gets her trip
right, she's a net stockings. Yeah.
She's in third fourth, whatever clear here, those sitting right
behind her, where she wants to be an even a little less deep
than usual. And so, you know, she got too
close and finish with her. Frankly, if met with that wins
their, I hit the pick five, like no question.
You know, nice and easy. So I was cursing Clara, she
crossed the line, but then a nice reminder that she was one
of the great three-year-old Phillies last year.
There's no reason she shouldn't train with and be a problem in
that distaff class this year. So I just thought that was a fun
thing because we already Have it really good just to have clap.
So it's nice to have another runner in there as well.
You know, we got one of our, one of the things we talked about on
the show is the Arabian Peninsula.
Bounce when horses come back from Dubai or from Riyadh and
Kasich read said, I don't really care that.
I just came back from the Arabian Peninsula and found a
seam burst through repeats in his race in the Manhattan.
And so what would, what did you make of the of the Cossack read?
Repeat. Well, you know, it's it's
certainly Lee. It was good to see him.
Come back and do. Well, because last year, he
assumed trying to find that his number and the PPS, he was a
note, 9 horse, ate more Saucy. He was the fall Don.
Okay, there we go for ye okay, so, but last year he was about
10 to 1 when he won. So sometimes when you, you know,
you get a result like that. With one of those horses you're
like, I was it a mistake to was there something that happened?
You know, can they really repeat that?
I think you can have a little bit more confidence and it went
a horse. You know, first second, maybe
third choice going into a race, they win that race and the come
back next year, you're like, okay, well yeah, obviously they
proved themselves last year. Everybody expect them to do.
Well, this is what happened and I'm not saying that's a
guarantee, right? But oftentimes in some of these
stakes races, you see these big prices, jump up.
Something happens IE. Maybe the pace is too fast, like
we just talked about with low Teresa, Picasa Creed really
proved himself. And I thought that was so
important because since that race, obviously last year's
diaper, he Hadn't had a win, so not only to come back from both,
you Middle East races with the church Sprint in Saudi and the
aqua Sprint and they done. But to come back after those two
races, get his first win in the same race that he won last year
as a long shot, but this year with a much better chance.
He just was like, okay haters. Okay.
Doubters, you know, right. I a real horse and another great
ride. Good, after soyuz another great
ride from Louis size and in a year of great rides and so, you
know, was running in Out seven position at the half mile marker
and then gets into the stretch. Isn't that perfect stocking
position in the goes ahead and kicks away from a recipe, right?
Who I thought did nothing wrong. You know, really was on the way
from True Valor. Yep.
And I thought chuvalo actually really nice showing with Fargo,
lynched in the in the in the mount there.
And so you got a little bit of a price in the third spot on the
trifecta there, but just a cool, a cool show for consecrated, I
think a recipe red absolutely will pick off a razor to coming
up here the rest of the year, but even, you know, it's
Interesting. You know we look at these we go.
It's classical Quest and that that that Trifecta.
Paid 196. 21 Turf races, man. That's for the, that's where the
money's at. Very cool.
And then somebody's upset races. It was like all day, you know,
because some of the dirt raises to add some good results.
Not maybe not the great pad is that or huge long shots.
But yeah, it was definitely. It was a day where like class
did technically class. Yes, right.
Yep. The class that we thought was
going to Did in class but yeah like yeah like classy horses.
Yeah, exactly right. But then you had some up that
results where you're like, oh okay, maybe my single, you know,
isn't gonna come home so yeah, I mean, I know that happened for
me at least with speak of the devil and, and obviously with
her much Rouge got to, you know, so there was a couple of verses.
I felt really confident about that that the fields were just
too good that day and then I said, obviously the cost of
crude was in the Manhattan you but you correct me, it wasn't
Jaipur and then Manhattan was are spread race a triple bond
comes through and this is this is becoming a trend in New York.
Chad Brown gives them out too many Franco and he wins.
They're hitting it over 30% together.
This was an opportunity in a slow paced for a guy like maybe
Franco to just get out front and stay out front.
We talked about that angle once in a while.
In these longer Turf races, Megan, what was your take on
Triple bomb in the Manhattan? I thought it was.
It was a Certainly a great effort for him.
I mean I love the fact that Chad actually, he actually spread the
love around more than you might kind of think, right?
I mean your baby, he goes through phases but especially
right now. A couple years ago, you might
think. Oh, he's always going to go to
Joelle, he's always going to go to Iraq, but he goes to, I ride,
he goes to Jose, he goes to now. Fluffy and pry.
He goes, so I think. Oh, he goes to, you know, give
Awards to Johnny B and so You end up actually.
I mean maybe it's just cause he has to so many freaking good
horses that he's gotta find. Plenty of riders to ride of but
I think that it's it's really incredible because those horses
they're formed his shines through and but many Franco is
certainly proved himself in New York circuit over the past
couple of years. You know he had to work his way
up and get to a bar like this but given the opportunity and
you love to see that given the opportunity, he's been able to
succeed. So I certainly thought that that
was That was nice to see them team up on an army to one on the
morning line. But yeah, I mean this we talked
about it before the show. This was like the Chad Brown
classic or something right in here and and to you know, to win
on a day. Like this granted, this horse
won at Belmont in the last year and a first ever get the name of
the race, go to molony. But then he went to the
Manhattan there and granted that was a good field as well.
But since then, he's just kind of tailed off.
So to see that horse come back and be able to get some of the
form that we had seen. Not only when he was over in
France at Shaun T and some of those other tracks.
But here in the US that he just looked like he had a hot streak
and then just nothing. And so to get back on top for
him. I thought was a really, really
good effort and certainly to get the win at this distance to
because It hasn't actually been his best, you know, the
interesting thing. If you, if you look at the split
times for Trevon in this race, the slowest ones, were the first
two. And then the, the quickest ones
with the last So many new the horse had it and was just going
to take the lead in and seize it and go for it.
And so the horse ends up winning by three and a half lengths.
Ran a sub 23 second to last quarter mile, and then a 23 and
to let final quarter that horse is flying at the end of that
race. So, very cool.
Run by him and then of course we had the Belmont that we've
already talked about. I think some of the other
headlines that are going on right now.
Megan I can't remember Churchill canceling for for heat.
It has been brutal here. The last two As I'm sure you've
had your own issues at your farm, with your horse has cooled
off. But, I want people around, you
know, the country, the world wherever you're listening to
understand. It essentially was about 110
degrees Fahrenheit, with the heat index in a lot of parts of
Louisville this weekend. It's a little over 40,
Centigrade, depending on where you're listening.
And so imagine what you've been to the beach and the sand is
very warm. Imagine what that does to the
dirt at Churchill Downs, into the, you know, to and for the
horses out there. And so I imagine a lot of it was
just being Be careful about, you know, both the general body heat
of the animals but also just you know they're got to put their
freakin feet in the ground and it's going to be really, really
hot on that on that dirt course and so it's, it's own.
Yeah, there's something there. I'm headed to the track
tomorrow. One of our guys, Mike Mills is
an easy bucket list trip, with his dad for Father's Day
weekend. Coming in from Texas.
He asked me if I could meet him at the track tomorrow and I said
absolutely I think Mike's probably listen to most episodes
of this show. There's probably two or three
other people maybe the oishi's in Or Isaac up in Maine.
But once in a while, I say, things like that about loud and
I realized, we really do have great fans all over the place.
And we're very, very appreciative and some of the
other? Yeah, yeah.
I've been trying to keep up with the results at least, if I can't
watch lives. So it's been, it's been kind of
a disappointing. I would have sworn that golden
Powell was like an easy easy winner and he did not get out of
the gate. Well, and then just had Nothing.
So he flopped it, ask it. I thought he was going to be
Wesley Ward's, best runner. So I think Wesley had one or two
others that have already run and neither one of them have one
run. I'm sorry.
Wesley, Ward being a one of the trainer's, the American trainers
that we see go over year after year and do very well over
there. I believe.
It's I Brad's first time over there and he's writing for
Wesley this year, but that certainly doesn't mean I think
he's a great Rider and Rusty Arnold said horse over there,
too. Unfortunately, did not win, we
will tomorrow, which is Friday if you're listening to this on
Thursday night but Friday Pizza. Bianca the Breeders Cup winner
for Chris Aqua menthe and spend arella for grab motion.
Both run in the coronation early Friday morning.
So in just a few hours I guess. And then slip stream for
Christophe Clemente in the Commonwealth.
That ask it on Friday so still a few more u.s. hopes, you know.
But real ask it's one of those. It's like the Olympics and that
way. Yeah.
This is from all across the world, the best of the best go
there. I mean, it truly is in its own a
world championships as well. So fantastic racing, I went once
when I was in college, we took a little trip with the universe
University of Louisville. Equine program, we got to go for
like opening day of Royal asket. Of course, we didn't like do
much and I think Animal Kingdom ran that day and he, okay
nowhere as well. But it was like early in the
day. It was like race to and that The
only horse that I really knew about at the time.
So I wasn't so ingrained in the, you know, handicap a and the
World Racing stage and all of that.
So the rest the day I was kind of like, well what do we do now?
Obviously there was racing to watch but it, I didn't know
anything about the horses that were going after.
So somehow I found my way into the Royal enclosure even though
I didn't have a ticket for that. So, yeah, they have the you have
these little like, kids, basically, and people were
wearing them. I noticed on one particular
side, Their chests. And so I just moved my hair to
that side and then just walked in like, I and it was perfectly
fine. So great.
I mean, ask for forgiveness not permission right here.
Oh absolutely tracks all the time.
And so yeah. So a bit more of the, the asket
circuit through the weekend, of course.
And it is a little like a Breeders Cup preview in June,
isn't it just, you know, for Turf races, of course, and the
thing, you know, it's interesting Megan and I thought
about this today, Yeah, I enjoy quarter horse racing but I don't
enjoy straight line interfaces. That's funny and I should
probably do the same thing. It is.
And I said, today on the air, I think ask it is a really nice
low sale, right? I mean, that's all it is right?
You know, I should probably get out for my own brain and I think
Dan Issel had a small stroke on the American American stuff.
All right, well, she is - I know you're here with us horse
racing. Happy hour or normal.
Thursday, spot. We are Audio Only this week
because Adults, have I would say, forsaken us and that's
essentially what's happened. We're gonna move into the
handicapping section of the show.
Now, we're going to go to Santa Anita for the first segment
here, three races out there. The debutantes in future Nebo
sponsored by fasig-tipton and then of course, the great to
Santa Maria, which is a follow-up to the Santa
Margarita. Good luck, making sure you
don't. Mix those up out there at
sanity, just silly. There's something that's like,
San Juan Capistrano and then there's the San Juan Clemente
and then the San Juans something else.
And Just good luck folks. It's the California races but we
will start with that race three out at sanity to the physics.
Hit the fasig-tipton debutantes. Five furlongs on the dirt 42
year old Phillies that's 100,000 dollar race listed Stakes here.
Megan did you land on anybody in the debutantes?
I thought this was one of the more complicated races.
I agree to talk about here, you know, obviously and this is a
theme with the two phase of Krypton stakes races for the two
year olds that we'll look at. But some of these horses are Our
never have never started before. You know, they are making their
debut in the stakes race. And so you have a lot of unknown
factors of that, but it's one of those things that it's, you
know, it's so short. It's a five for a long race,
right? You're not going that far.
It's not like you kind of have to give the horses start at five
furlongs or four and a half. Anyways and then you know, you
try to Edge em out to six or seven or something like that.
So essentially They still fit here.
You know, why not? Take the chance if you can be in
this race. So I went with the one on top
for Walter Solis who isn't having the best year, the best
meat, but this is the kind of race where you get some of
those. I don't know, let's say, like
more quarter horsey or like low, Sally type of trainers that end
up bringing horses. We're here for these types of
races that do really well. These short young, or sprint
races. I think can often produce a
result that you're like, wait, what?
Who is that? You know?
Like honestly if the six or the 732 one popped up here, you
could be like, okay, well that's just how it goes, at least in my
experience when I was out there in California, that's how it
was. So, I mean, I, I'm going to
spread if I'm using this race in my tickets and probably use the
One that you for John Sadler, because he's so good with
first-time starters, given her own Vasquez, a chance, which is
interesting her because he's spending some time out there but
it's not a rider that he usually does put on the three rousing
Jewel, for Steve's back, who's coming in from Golden Gate?
So granted a horse that's never raced on the dirt before.
Has only had one start. It was a win, but it was on the
synthetic. And then the five times regret,
who 62-54 George paraben, it's kind of the same thing, George
paraben 25% right now Walter Solis when I get 6%.
Right now, you know, I just, I think you can, you can make a
case for pretty much any one of these horses because it's, it's
just a crapshoot. That's the way it goes.
You know, there's two options either.
The 625 favorite wins it or it's a long shot and these types of
races. Yeah.
I do love the Tom's. Regret is one and multiple
tracks, right? And that 58 s.
That 58 seconds for six furlongs at at Churchill is really good.
Frankly, if that travels lately, you know, you see that 65 speed
figure. And then you see the finishing
time, you're like those two things are not congruent and so
something happened there. As far as the buyer.
I do agree with you though that the to, so, Stone silent,
absolutely interesting. Newcomer of the workouts appear
to be right in line with what you want.
And all the breeding makes sense.
There you've got an Indian Charlie on top, AP on the
bottom. And so, it's a, you know,
bloodline and so it's four hundred and ten thousand dollar
sale purchase. And so interesting, Florida
bread. And they dumped here in the calc
1. It's not racist, but I think
she's absolutely got a shot. But if I had to guess, it's
going to be X regret keeping that form going with Tyler basil
board. But if you want a newcomer, I
would lay it on Stone Street. Well, keep in mind to write like
the types of races that some of these forces come out of are
important as well. So the, it's good to see,
actually, because I believe the abbreviation for at least, the
one horse the five. 6 & 7 is the fasig-tipton sail out there in
California. Yeah.
Right. He's out there was a very first
year that they were having it at least at Santa Anita and it was
not a great showing or sale and the price is reflected that, but
obviously you can see like, for example, the one horse, they
bought that one for three hundred fifty thousand dollars
and I believe it is a two year old sail off to check myself on
this. I'm totally going off of like
memory here but the two-year-old Sounds like that, you know, OBS
being one of them to with the to Stone silent.
You get horses that show that are precocious, right.
They have to work. They have to have a good showing
at that two-year-old and training because they do train
or work rather Breeze at the sale.
So you see the high prices reflect that.
Did this or scored? Good.
Yes. Probably going to pay a lot of
money for it in combination, with a bunch of other things,
like Bloodlines and Confirmation, and, you know,
health and whatever. But you know, Oftentimes where
the horse comes from in that way or how much they paid for them
at those two year old and training sales.
I've new thing can be indicative of a good performance in this
type of a race. That's just a couple of months
after that year old and training sale.
It's only five furlongs, you know.
So look for that when you're handicapping as well,
specifically, in these types of races.
Yeah, and a reminder that a 76 buyer for rousing Jewel coming
out and Golden Gate. Man, that is a huge number out
of Golden Gate, so if you're looking In for the other major
player in there, might be three. All right, moving on to the
Santa Maria, Santa Maria, not Margarita.
That was when we go, this is this is a great to Milan to 16th
on dirt, for Phillies a three and up we will go to turns for
two hundred thousand dollars - Jewel.
And on anyone here, I thought it was between the three and the
four blue stripe from Argentina. Kind of disappointed in the
Breeders Cup distaff of obviously she was a big long
shot that At De Marche really Marsh Loraine.
I can't think or speak anymore because I'm pregnant I guess I
won that race. In the Breeders Cup is have
obviously done by Road isn't there about that?
Except ra the true scope was in that race.
So this is a horse who just did not get her her way, which was
obviously disappointing for her and she just didn't really do
much running. That being said the effort she
had in the sand. Margarita with Tyler basil board
was much, much better for her obviously an easier field to but
you do get some of the same contenders, like varda who's in
the sealed as well. And I think that she will
probably be able to repeat that effort.
So I went with blue stripe. We want to call bleep rides but
obviously that's a very different worse and the floor
private mission for Sean McCarthy and Juan Hernandez.
It does seem like this horse needs some time between races
though, and she's going to get that here.
I'm not too concerned about the layoff because She's done well
with it before. Obviously the works coming in
her fabulous. She was previously trained by
Bob baffert. Now, I'm garna Sean McCarthy to
me. She looks like the other horse
to use in here. So I thought this was pretty
jockey if I went a news and other one and it would be varda
but the odds reflect that as well with the, the 521 price.
So I wasn't straying too far outside of the top choices.
Yeah, I agree with you on blue stripe.
I'm going to try to beat private Mission here just because the
horse has a stretched out since that distaff.
And it wasn't, I mean, that was a weird distaff, you were either
in that front blanket group where you were nowhere to be
found, right? And she was unfortunately, part
of that, no. Where to be found, they bring
her back in that grade, one that you mentioned at seven furlongs,
then do those six furlongs in and doesn't win either of them
and finished a seven lengths off in the Las Flores.
You're right, though. Giving her time off, appears to
be what you needed. Great bullet workout.
Out just on June 11th, that five furlongs over the sanity, the
track. So if you're going to get
anything out of her stretching back out, maybe that's it.
I think the to bye-bye birdie is actually your better chance here
to get some value 521, Victor, Espinoza four-letter Powell, I
do love that. The two of them were here to get
57 percent right now. In a very limited samples.
I love those kinds of numbers though. 243 at the track has run
a buyer in the 80s at the track going to turns.
And so my sense is that she does like it at Santa Anita and so
I'm hoping No, we're jumping off of the turf here, so I'm going
to, I don't love that 16. And after lines, getting back to
the distance, this is only her. She ran in that Santa Margarita,
which we mentioned earlier. That blue striped one hoping
that she's in a little better form after a shorter race.
They're going back to the dirt but I'm with you, I think blue
stripe is the most likely winner.
There's rice and I don't I don't know that in my mind, it's very
close. Yeah, hi I think it's going to
be pretty jockey. They're all right.
Now we head out to race 11 at Santa Anita fasig-tipton,
Futurity five furlongs on the Dirt.
This is for two-year-olds another hundred thousand dollar
will list it stinks here and so the book end of the later card
here, Megan, where did you land in the Futurity?
I thought probably the three absolutely zero.
Who showed a good bit of speed on debut gone, four and a half
here at Santa Anita and then was able to win that race.
Obviously, as a heavy favorite 70 cents on the dollar Doug
O'Neill, Maria Gutierrez, very good and races like this and
this two-year-old Philly certainly looks like she could
be A contender. But obviously she is facing the
boys in here, which is going to be tough to do.
Now, we see this a lot with trainers, like Wesley War, Two
Ki, and then he'll read a lot of those young two year old Billy's
against the Colts. We're not a whole lot of concern
because most horses can often kind of be like like humans,
right? Like girls kind of mature
faster, a lot of the times mentally and sometimes you know
until the boys catch up physically two of you were the
tall girl in your class like standing over all the boys
before they caught up. Up.
It's kind of like that so I think absolutely zero certainly
can hold her own against this field.
I'm hoping especially at age, five price mean that's their
they're certainly giving this one.
A look the 92 Houma is the other Doug O'Neill.
The cold side by justify who also short speed on debut.
Also one on debut going against similar conditions there and I
thought it was a really good showing by both of those horses
and granted the filly And faster at the same same track same
distance but faster than the 92 homeless.
So obviously that the odds do reflect that it kind of the same
thing as the last phase of dipped in great Stakes race.
We talked about first time starter for John Stadler,
purifier. I think also deserves a look in
here because I think Johnson, excellent Horsemen he does
really old two year olds, who wins it 24% with those types of
horses. Well and with first-time
starters at 18% to so, you know, your You're possibly getting a
nice Superstar here. And they probably pointed for
this race, they paid three hundred and fifteen thousand
dollars for this one. I OBS.
Again that's the two-year-old and training sales.
So obviously he seemed to be a precocious type and some of the
practical jokes. Really, do have positive
aesthetically pleasing, athletic, build to them.
And so, I'm interested to see what we're going to see four
horses like that. It's, I'll tell you my good side
for people who have also for long.
They know, but if you're getting into the Show recently, thank
you. Good to have you along the.
I'm now seeing horses that I was a fan of turn into parents,
right? And so, she's seeing justify on
the list. Justifies the first derby that I
ever covered, how's that? And so, it's cool to see his two
year olds out there. Running around for a hundred
thousand dollars and and hanging out with.
I mean, really nice jockeys. Like Juan Hernandez that's been
good for that horse. Good for Tahoma, by the way.
Where do you, where do they get the name?
To homo from justify and Madeira dancer.
Oh, I don't know. I'm the last person to ask about
that. Since some of these, I'm not
like, for example, the seven is, smoked them Howard and the Cyrus
smoke them. I mean, that makes sense.
That's where you would get that name, right, midnight storm,
sired midnight, lightning, these, These are names that make
sense but we're to Homa came from home everybody.
Hey Is that double dual combination,
they may have won some big races in the past.
This is such a double meal thing to do though to just you know
put the Filly in here against one of his own other horses and
and try it out. I do think she's got an
incredible shot here. I think you know There's a
there's a burner dini in the one in Castle.
Knock for Ruben Alvarado. Who's actually winning a 15% in
a massive sample. Size at at Santa Anita doesn't
get his preferred writer for the Streisand Edward Maldonado.
But he's getting at 14% has been training at San Luis Rey, excuse
me. He hits a 31% with his first
time starters. I don't know if I was going to
play a longer shot. I think I would try Castle knock
in this race but I agree with you that absolutely zero is the
top play at Santa Anita. All right, so we're going to
head to another track. That Megan has lived close to.
You've lived close to all these because you grew up in New
Jersey, right? Ha ha ha, no.
But I thought here to make that joke.
Yeah, Mike's, not here. All right, so let's go to
Belmont. Megan's true home track, and
we'll check out the great tree poker which is a four year old
and up race over a mile. And a sixteenth on the turf.
That's actually a straight line race at Belmont.
That's how big that place is. It's for 250,000 dollars.
Feel like that was a good joke and you don't think it's funny
but Megan go ahead. Who do you like in the great
three poker? I think it's gonna be chalky.
I've got the one and the four. So Nathan is the one or mass
that, I'm not sure for Chad, Brown and fluffy on Pratt.
Who is his only run a second and a grade, 1 and a first, by five
lengths. With a big, big number in the
listed Stakes race the seek again, which ended up having a
pretty good field. And then the for public sector
who is also entered at Monmouth in a Stakes race there.
So I don't know exactly where I'll go say as of now, we don't
probably say Monmouth, but I don't know.
This is a horse that was really in the definitely, In Contention
to was in the top choices, at least, at Churchill Downs for
they Turf Classic on Derby day, and just went absolutely
nowhere. I he, in my opinion, had, you
know, not the best race, and they just kind of took care of
them. Obviously, the force was way out
of it, never really made a big move finish behind by 15 length.
So, You had some really nice horses in there.
You had Santa and you had a Dom. Oh, you had others and so I say,
I like this horse a lot, I'm personally going to draw a line
through that. And also keep in mind that this
was coming off a layout from November, you know, that's a six
month layoff from November to May.
And so it very well could have been that he needed the race,
you know? So I think I look sector whether
he runs at Belmont or whether he runs at.
Monmouth is certainly going to be a top pick for me.
Yeah, I totally agree. My-my, green sheets thumbs up.
Dad pick of the week is mazing. The one here. 625 Chad Brown
floppy and Pratt to them hitting at a crappy 34% at the Belmont
meat. And so I expect that horse to
absolutely continuous form. By the way, I joked about the mi
mi there at all. We had it listed as my on the
16th on the for on the show sheet which I this was one of
the races. I didn't put on the show shooter
can't believe it and do this, it's actually mild.
That's the one turmoil that we saw on Belmont.
Day as well. So I will land with my thumb up
the week Mason I will I will make my Green Sheet pick take
you pick the for public sector either at Belmont Farm.
Okay, I like that. I like that a lot.
Hey go, awesome. Okay.
I mean only one right, Hillary run away, right?
Yeah by locating horse. Yeah yeah.
So so just so folks, We're going to go to Monmouth next.
But first, we're going to go to Churchill the Monomoy girl first
ever running. And this is, this is a three
year old Filly race, which is interesting.
It's an overnight of Milan, a 16th on the dirt 160,000
dollars, which is their current payout for an overnight Stakes,
only five horses here, but I think Megan, I'll go first here
just because I got to go first at some point.
I imagine my hope for the, I have two things.
I have a hope for this price and I have an upset feeling for this
race. My Hope Is that Society?
Xiety the to horse wins for fun and injects, another really good
three-year-old Philly into this group, right?
So she's coming out. She only runs one time last year
at Keeneland as a to hold. It doesn't it.
She wins right over six and a half for a long.
Something goes on where she needs some time off.
They move into the as bus and barn.
And then she comes back over sloppy, go at six and a half,
furlongs in an optional, claimer here, short price ends up
winning by, you know, more than a length.
I would roll over xaro board, we get Tyler here, which is fine.
That's Obviously no step down at all but we're stretch it out for
the first time right? And and obviously Sprinter out
with Steve asmussen are 20% is a stat that we can stand by and
it's very good. So I'm hoping this daughter of
Gunrunner and we've seen a lot of good Gun Runners.
This year ends up being a star, but my sense is my, I have an
upset gut feeling about this, where the Phillies with to turn
experience already, get the win here, and I really like the for
image in Malvina for nacho Reyes.
I think she's actually the most likely winner here.
I think she's shown in her last. Last two times out, she goes
from a wet fast, 74, a long one turn race at Keeneland in a
maiden special weight wins that in April.
And I think I came was opening day actually and then comes to
Churchill wins over a mile and a sixteenth on Derby Day or is it
on up? Stay on Oaks day.
And so I'm really interested because she went from that,
she's already done the stretch out, she's already done that
thing. Now to Chris actually hitting it
14% he wins winter to winter at 17% actually and so interested
to see if James I'm of all people can keep this horse near
the front and then overtake someone in the stretch would
Imaging Melvina. So I'm going to go for and to in
this race even though I'm rooting for the to to be a
Monster. Yeah I mean I think she is.
I okay. Alright making her my Green
Sheet. Taking the we very nice.
So I really want to give one out and enter phrase finally but she
would be the other consideration obviously she is going from
Sprinter out like a mention. So Steve asked me said and when
I get 20% with that angle but I just I think that she she has
the makings of a Powerhouse, sometimes you wonder though.
Okay, she had a really great effort there at Churchill Downs
but it was in the slop granted though.
She's had the experience, she had the maiden special weight
when it heal and she had them allowance when already.
And so sometimes that experience can be.
So so helpful, she's bred to be a superstar.
I mean, she's gonna run her on the top.
Sired by Gunrunner her damn, the sired by tappet.
So the damn sire there and she's read by Peter bomb.
Red's owned by them as well. They kept her, so keep in mind
Peter bone, thoroughbreds, they've bred many so many good
horses but one of the ones most recently is authentic, right?
So this is the it just it seems like she's the type of for she's
got all the credentials to be really special and I think
they're putting her in here not with a, why not us angle but
with a yes right this this is a horse that's going to want more
distance. I mean her breeding is Screaming
for more distance, so she'll have to prove yourself but I
mean, she's already really the number, she's run have been
excellent. So I I'm going to, I'm going to,
I'm going to use the the to society and I think she's a
really, really excellent entry in here.
I agree, though. If there was another horse, I'd
probably go towards the for, or in case you're curious who
obviously does have the experience as well.
I don't know what happened. First time out, she didn't get a
yell at the fairgrounds, but since then, She's been really
successful so I like her as well.
I usually go with horses that have had consistently good
experience and spots. Like this granted.
Miss Yearwood has had some good experiences well but I feel like
she's kind of missed the mark a few more times than I would have
wanted to see granted, I'm an excuse obviously, the
black-eyed, Susan race because my God, Susan race, but I still,
I still like the to, in the core better.
Yeah, I like that. You went over my own accord or
two in that net made. Special way back in April for
Miss Yearwood there and it's interesting watching the jockey
colonies move around. Is there's a big day at
Monmouth, which we're going to talk about.
And guys, like James Graham getting major mounts in in
overnight stakes in the fifth race there, that will close the
pick for in the pick. Five of the early sequence at
Churchill, but it will also start the middle pick for on
that day, for night racing, which is very cool.
So, all right, and frankly, 80 like four or five.
Four. On Saturday so night racing will
probably be really, really nice. So hopefully, yeah, hopefully
lots of people make it after that.
All right, so the will head over to Monmouth.
It is a hassle preview day. We're going to handicap the
late, pick for it starts with Grace 11, the grade 3 Eatontown
Stakes. So my own a 16 on the turf or
Phillies and there's three and up there running for 150,000
dollars here. We see some names that I think
people will know including fluffy socks and Vigilantes way
some other horses in the group. Megan, where did you end up
here? Yeah.
So this is the Reason why you are seeing so many, you know,
names that are familiar both with horses jockeys and trainers
as well. If you follow Monmouth from
day-to-day, this is not necessarily the names that you
see but today or I'm sorry Saturday.
Hopefully a really important day there because it is kind of the
win and you're in day for Haskell day which is the biggest
day at Monmouth Park. And so all of these races that
we're going to talk about, not only is it an all Stakes pick
pick? Great, it takes before, but
they're also all indications of horses that you could see, it
will be the winning horse. And in some cases the first and
second place horse have their entry fees, paid their star
fees, as well for the various races.
So this race, the Eatontown correlates With the Wind star
Matchmaker which is a grade 3 on the turf so that's obviously the
nine for a long four horses three and up.
So anybody that's in any one of these races is hoping that
they'll get to return back to Mom.
Meth or maybe say they're in trade and get the big money on
Haskell day, but I went with the 6 on Top Ice Princess Grace, who
I certainly think has the ability.
I think she's had a lot of rough races in her past couple.
You know she's not broken from the gate very well last time she
was checked and was in a pretty tight.
She was obviously favored that day in The Matriarch.
So I think she's favorite in a grade one.
Last time she just got unlucky. She certainly has the capability
to win a grade 3 race which this is she does have to come back
from off a layoff. So obviously you wonder is the
fitness there but Mike's didn't bring horses back at 19 percent
with an extended lay off. She's got the experience here at
Monmouth. She's won here before.
She likes this distance and her numbers are good.
So I think Princess Grace has a chance here.
Or two to get the slight Edge. The seven worse is a Mista, but
interestingly, I do think if you look at those horses past
performances that she prefers a little bit more given the
ground, I could be wrong and I don't think you're going to see
that. And I did check the weather and
I don't think they're supposed to see a lot of rain and it is,
in fact, beautiful there. Right now.
I wish I was at Monmouth today, great because it was like, it
was like 82 or something. Like perfect Beach weather.
And I'm sitting over here, just trying not to go outside.
My animals are like water, which I did obviously, but I'm like,
oh my God. If I had to leave their
condition one more time. So interested to see Le Mista
see if she can, you know, is okay with that little bit of a
harder beachier Turf course. And then obviously the eight
fluffy socks, who that's one leaves a lot to be desired.
You know he's no trust She's one of those horses that just oh,
most gets there. Oh, most gets there and her
running style, is probably why? Right.
She's a deep closer. So she runs on a real estate
from time to time. Granted, those margins are very
slim. I mean, it was a second by a
half second by 3/4 of a length. So she is right there and she's
been in some grade 1 grade 2 races.
She also can certainly do well here and you see Chad Brown and
many Franco team back up. So if you like that combination,
And that can be your horse, there are.
I think, I think there's, I don't know, I think it even Pace
projection from like closers two stalkers, two frontrunners in
here. So there's a lot of different
every Fair. Yeah.
And it seemed like something where, like, oh, they're she's
not gonna have any Pace to run a Tor.
Oh, this is, you know, loan speed or whatever.
So yeah, yeah. I think I'm gonna go with the 6
on top. Yeah, the last thing you said
actually is Is a reason that you could put Princess Grace on top
because she is a balanced running, right?
She's someone that can be out front.
You can stalk from about mid pack, whatever it is and so she
can absolutely be a problem. I put fluffy socks on top
because when a horse runs second in these kinds of interfaces, it
just seems like they win every third race.
Right? And she's 4413 Lifetime.
And it just seems like the kind of thing that she's going to
jump up and do, it makes me realize how much she one is a
two-year-old because this year, she's opportune, she was 146 as
a three year old man, she won three times.
Is a two-year-old. That's pretty incredible.
Actually, I landed on the one Vigilantes by in the second spot
with Paco Lopez ran lost by a neck.
Last time I lost by a quarter length or seven and a quarter
length before that over a yielding go at Monmouth in
September this is second time off the lay off this horse for.
Claude McGee, does anyone call him clawed?
By the way I do think fluffy socks is the most likely winner
and and I mentioned this earlier but Brown and Manny Franco are
hitting at 36% together. That's pretty incredible.
So, I actually ended up 81 in this race.
I think if you made a case that this is a spread race, I think
it's totally legitimate. I think a horse like alms for
example, coming in off of a bunch of not great runs, but if
it if she jumped up in one here, would you would you totally be
shocked? I don't think so.
Stolen holidays coming out of the Vogue a at Belmont Rouge
year, our flash drive high opinion.
Those are all really, really good horses.
You get Jose Luis Cano there. I mean, I think there's a lot of
horses here who can win, but I Land on the 8th of a one in that
race. So we'll go to the Pegasus next
will a little Texas Texas raised 12 late pick three starts here.
This is the Haskell prep for three-year-olds.
My own a 16 on the dirt 150,000 dollars here.
I do think the morning line favorite is the most likely
winner Megan but what save you I went with, let's say, I want the
40 degrees. Okay.
Yeah. Over the two, I believe.
So I liked ability. It seems like the number or the
date rather that they have for this horse on gelding, him was
back in. That's a December of 2012 on.
So this is a horse to started his career at Saratoga he
debuted there which is always tough to do and in fact he was
only seven to one so or is that they probably had high hopes for
they gave him some time off. I would assume with a horse like
this right? You you always hope you're going
to get the next stallion you always hope you've got the
potential for that exaggerated so I don't think you tried to
kill these horses that you know unless you have to so that could
be You either like physically. So sometimes the, you know, the
testicles are one maybe undescended or something, or
sitting a little bit higher. And so they might technically be
classified as a cold, but sometimes they're in a
comfortable spot. And so the horse won't extend
all the way because they're it hurts, you know?
So that's something or behavioral wise.
Sometimes, you got to work that just will not focus.
And sometimes over said, it's like dangerous to handle and be
around because they're, they are so snobbish and so there's
there's a number of different reasons why you do it.
But it is always for the benefit of the horse or the people
around it. And I feel like since they did
that, since they guilted any game back in March of next year,
they gave him some time off. There might have been another
issue too. He won.
He won. And then he finished third in
his first effort in the Integrated Security, to the
Peter Pan. Until we, the people who just
Ran off that day. So I think he, I think he
deserves to be the favorite in here.
It looks like a horse that's really, really promising and I'm
excited to see him in this spot and then the to home brew for
Brad Cox, who ran last time out at Oakland Park and a Stakes
race and one and has that some good experience himself.
You know, he did lose two dash attack, he was the favorite that
day in the Smarty Jones for the track was pretty sloppy that day
but if you take that race out, he's nearly Flawless.
So so I am curious to see how he does and would Dash attack.
I didn't use them because at I kind of excuse that effort for
Brad Cox horse because I think Dash attack needs an off track.
I think he likes a sloppy track, totally great.
Yep. Totally giving you three for
three other what? He's 0 for 3, on the fast track.
So, if I must airframe a lot of rain at Monmouth, I don't really
know if Dash attack is the horse that I'm going to go with.
Well you and I are totally the same here.
Yeah. And I think you can draw an
obvious to line to do the two losses for electability first
time going, and it's over Turf. And then in the Peter Pan
because it's wet, neither of those either, by the way, was
with Lasix. He gets Lasix back here and he
should like the distance. I agree with you based on the
breeding and then the same for Homebrew, 343 over fast.
Go over to over Waco and so I think he's very ready for the
spot, I totally agree with you and I landed very short here for
and to, in the This, which is the the Haskell prep here and so
I, you know, not always that you and I land on the same two
horses, but I feel a lot better now that we have.
And so we'll move on to the late double starting in verse 13.
Here, the grade 3 monmouth's takes a mile and an eighth on
the turf for three and up a hundred fifty thousand dollars
in line here. And by the way, I'm obviously
predicting a giant day for Manny Franco and that could continue
here in the mistakes, but what it says - on about this one,
Yeah, this is a really important race because it is the prep for
the United Nations, which is a great one on Turf worth 600
thousand dollars. So it's kind of the other
feature race on Haskell day, the turf version right for horses, 3
years old and it had a Breeders Cup winning in and all kinds of
things. Yes, right.
Yeah. Well, not this year, not this
year, historically, ottoman, but it's not a British company read,
at least, not listed this year, but but yeah, but it's always an
important race. And it's, it's one that you, you
know, Winning a grade one. Is a stallion, making race is a
frankly prize. And if you win the United
Nations, it's very likely. Your ownership is going to
figure out a way to get you in the Breeders Cup.
Yes, right. Yeah.
So I went with the three horse, as I mentioned public sector who
also is the one that centered at Belmont.
I really do think that you, excuse, that less effort, he has
run into some very nice races before he finished.
Fourth in that grade, one effort in the Hollywood Derby, I don't
know that shipping out to do. Marv, maybe that's what he, you
know, wanted to do per se, I think he runs a little bit
better on the East Coast which you've seen in his form, he
still ran. Well, I mean he finished fourth
just beaten by a length and blanket finished that day, but I
think you just draw a line through that last race.
I'm really just banking on the fact that he just wasn't right
that day and I think you probably needed it for Fitness.
So coming off of that, I think public sectors or stew Beach and
then the six were sacred life for Chad Brown.
I'm Happy to see him at a track here, like, like Monmouth
because one party one over this racetrack, but he prefers firm
ground and last time I think, you know, he didn't get that, he
had a yielding Turf course, he. He's a pretty consistent horse
in his own right to, I mean, I say he doesn't like firm ground
but then he won here at Monmouth, over a good Turf
course, and then Aquila and over a good Turf course here in a
nice third, with one of the best numbers of his career.
That being said, I think, Does better over a firm ground, but
it just seems like, no matter where they run him, he brings
his a game. So, I think you certainly have
to look at sacred life. I just preferred some of the
efforts that public sector had given in some of his races.
Yeah. So lose long shot of the week is
in this race, believe it or not because both of those horses are
absolutely worthwhile. I hear you.
I really like hidden stash here at 12:45 in the morning line.
If you look at his numbers, I think.
Think the move to terpenes actually been really good for
this course. So some of you may remember
hidden stash having run in the Kentucky Derby, insofar as the
horses hitting the board, I get it.
So five runs four times hitting the board but in really good
company. Actually Saran optional playing
their last time out here at Churchill Downs with in three
lengths of the winter rain. In the opening, verse overnight
at Churchill Downs, over a mile finishes losses by ahead, and I
don't know that he's 15 to 1. If he wins that race here.
I think that there's a chance that actually he's in a
different spot. Runs at Keeneland over over over
the dirt in the middle. There is nowhere to be found
before that runs Third Run, second before that both of those
over the turf at Tampa and we've seen actually weirdly we've seen
some Cutters come out of Tampa and went on Belmont Stakes day
or intercourse. I'm wondering if we don't see
another one here being said, I campus the track for me in the
winter time, I love their Turf racing Lassiter person and I
think it's the maidens on the turf.
Okay, yeah. My gosh, one of my favorite
types of races to bed in the wintertime.
Awesome. So there you go.
And so and I think we're seeing some of those results as well.
The spring. And so I think he's due to pick
off one of these. I don't know that it's this one.
I agree with you. I'm a little more of a public
sector than a sacred life person.
Because in this race, I like sacred life, five weeks breast.
I like public sector. S off the layoff.
They both, you know, public sector in a huge schedule.
Last year. If he can regain any of that
form from last year, it should easily handle this group.
But yeah, I think hidden stash it.
Root of that is due to pick up one of these fields and I love
that 12:45 price. I don't know that Hector Diaz
gets it done but I love that video number is is shipping him
in for this one and so hopefully we get a big number on him and
so I landed 11 6 and 3 in the in the Monmouth States getting rid
of whom. Do you like how the the five
ever dangerous at least as of right now, the name ever
dangerous. And then doesn't have a rider
and like saw that was just a gift, what's lie?
What's, what's Wild is that horse?
Should have a rider because all of the numbers make sense for
that horse, except for the graded Stakes number for George
Weaver, right? It doesn't get out of the gate.
Well yeah, I mean yeah I need some serious gate Riders,
something to add blinkers, take them off, I don't know you know
without a hundred pounds on his back he might actually just run
better than old. Yeah.
Just bring it to be just fine there so then we move on to the
Salvatore Mi is the last race of the day.
The 14th Grace. It's a grade 3.
It's 150. Thousand dollars to the person.
It's a mile on the turf. So it's a start to finish their
of the one milder course at Monmouth Park.
It is for three-year-olds and up.
We know some names in this race - I'd Hartwell Charlie mind
control. Of course, she'll spite is
running on the dirt helium is here.
Who knows that? I'm who wants some other races?
Okay, let's start there then Megan.
What is what do you think? Roger eye Fields.
Thought process is here for show spite to the on the dirt and
this one. And I could not tell you, I
could not, I mean, this is the worst that one, that finally got
the grade 1, they were so elated at Keeneland, going a mile over
the Turpin. The Maker's Mark mile, which was
a huge huge performance that day.
Yep. In fact, beat Mason resource.
We talked about earlier. Yep it's good.
Like straight is also a good one.
I mean that field was loaded and you know last time was in that
same kind of weird race and in once and it didn't come back to
win in his Ray said he ran last weekend and so I'm crossing that
one out for a few horses. His own leader treatises that, I
can see were December 20. 21 I go through Park, we went a mile
and 70 yards and he finished seventh beaten by 12 lengths.
Also Eccleston Park. Just before that January 2021.
He went price of 2 Theta over the dirt.
Oh yeah, right and finished fifth beaten by Thanks.
So the only tutor traces that I could see are not great.
So, you know, I think that that December reason might have been
over the depite. You might be.
You might be right? Yeah.
It doesn't say but he's an excellent.
Right, well usually that just means off Turf but yeah.
And so yeah, where is right? He's 0 for 2, he's 1 for 2 on
synthetic and I'm seeing the Woodbine race below that in July
of 20 where he The grade three Marine this horse screams to
Peta. This horse screen is Turf.
I just, I'm really, I would love if someone anyone covering this.
Please find Roger actual to ask you why?
This course is on the dirt. I would really honestly I would
really love to understand the motivation here because this is
a five-year-old intact horse. Yeah.
Well I mean this is a this is a legitimate this horse could
breed. He's won six hundred and forty
thousand dollars in his lifetime.
He's a great one winner right? Am I wrong about this?
I know you're right. I mean speightstown was a dirt
horse himself, so you've got that for a sprinter but but
yeah, I don't know. I just it seems like this is not
a dirt horse to me. So yeah no one holds it against
candy ride by the way that his offspring run, well, everywhere
here, I've been so it's I don't know why they would hold it
against Real spice, any that his offspring, you know, that he
runs Berthold Indian spice, some that he has a son that runs
really well on the turbine. I don't know this one, I don't
understand. I'm picking it up.
Set here Megan. Would you like though?
I want the three and the one mostly because I just wanted to
see Mike's reaction when I picked her up Charlie.
Unfortunately, I don't get to see that but that is totally my
paper. So I can't can't lie to you but
but yeah, I'm gonna say paper, I mean, iPad 2 because let's be
real hooped handicapped on paper anymore.
Even even I don't do that anymore.
That - yeah. But yeah, I think, I think it's
between mind control. Who don't know what's happened
to that horse. He's just kind of tailed off,
you know, he was a six-year old horse now, but he was so
dominant for a while and I don't know.
I'm just hope we can get back, but the fact that he, the pain
Derby being a mile there, he won that one.
Just barely. And then previously, his races
have been sprint races one turned sprint races, you know.
So the to turn my Oh, Pam, I don't know.
I think hot rod Charlie just has that while he's only, you know,
141 over this particular distance.
Typically he's gone a lot further and has done well, like
his one of his better efforts in his career.
Probably his best ever besides. Pennsylvania Derby was the
Belmont Stakes, the household, her best.
Okay, yeah, and so I don't know how I feel about this distance
for him but I feel like I've liked it a little bit better
than mine control. I don't know.
It's I kind of hated this race. Just overall Do you like Mike
Smith being on for her on trial here?
Yeah, yeah I don't I don't mind that at all.
You make one plenty of great races at Monmouth.
And so I think it's only an upgrade for sure.
I'm so I'm going upset here and one of the reasons is just the
the state of current high-end horse racing in that this horse
goes to the Arabian Peninsula and then trains in Southern
California and has to go to New Jersey.
And we don't have the luxury liner airplanes right now for
horses. So this horse had to ship to, to
New Jersey, either in, essentially, a container on a
FedEx plane, or they had to put them on a truck and I don't like
either of those for this horse. And so I'm wondering, it would
be a plane for sure. 100 agree, I agree with you and I'm going
to go ahead and I'm going to take mine controllers, be
training in Belmont who did not show up the last two times over
one turn in the Carter. And in the Churchill Downs, I'm
going to assume the Pump is going to happen to Hot Rod.
Charlie the last time, that the mind-control went to turns at a
mile, was that Parks wins? So, not a huge upset.
By the way, in that race, he beats Silver State and beats
Warriors, charge you beats decent horses.
So give me mind control. Not a huge upset.
That's Fletcher, is Johnny be an upset.
Nonetheless, if HRC chases a bunch of money, I think you
could actually might get 722 on my mind control for me, would be
an absolute slam dunk. And so I'm going a little bit.
An upset in the Salvatore mile, which is the prep for the, the
markup on July 23rd. So they all right.
Yeah. Well, it is Monmouth is awesome.
As I think it is, it's a fun track.
You really should get us down, is so cool.
Like, if I had to pick a place to Summer it would be either
Saratoga or Monmouth. I mean that's wow.
I like Delmar the few times that I've been but I'm an East Coast
girl. Really, you know, sure.
So I think probably it would be one of those two places.
I love the area surrounding Monmouth and the track, it's all
the people. There is cool.
I'm sure Haskell day is awesome. I think this is the day that I'd
like to go yeah for sure. You got to be a little less
crowd, the Racing's awesome you know 14 freaking racism the
card. Like I think I would really love
him. So that's a whole thing by the
way, I wanted to make a couple of announcements on the show.
If you've made it this far, you are the people that are most
likely to show up to these. He's things.
July 1st is a Friday. Its leading into the Stephen
Foster weekend. We will be doing the noon to 3
show on ESPN. 680, live at Churchill Downs, the top of
Section 3, 22, our cigar sponsor, our folks, at a, single
barrel, cigars will be out there with us.
We'll be announcing all of our new sponsors for the fall,
leading into the Clark and essentially obviously, through
Breeders Cup. So if you can join us at
Churchill Downs on July 1st, we'd love to see you and then of
course we will be up there two-thirds of us.
For July 9th, for the, for the Indiana Derby.
Come say hi to me, when I'm up there for the, the Indiana Derby
hanging out up there as well. And I'm so it's going to be a
great summer, this this year, hanging out both for that.
Stephen Foster Friday on July first.
And then, of course, for the Indiana Derby, Megan, how I have
to ask, how are you doing with this heat in pregnancy?
I'm trying not to leave my house truly.
No, I can't. I can't.
To do this thing. So that's my only that's the
only thing I could possibly do. I is it my horses and get them
all ready for the day. Check them.
Make sure they have water food, whatever fly, whatever, fly mask
and spray in the morning before it gets hot really early and
then I don't touch them until about 10:00 at night and then
they have dinner because it's just too hot.
So I assume they're smart enough that they find shade the whole
day essentially. Yeah.
Yeah, they've got shade to go. Yeah.
Right now. Why do they have?
They don't there's nothing worse than like eating when you're
hot, you know? And I think the same goes for
horses to so L, there's some people are like, what you wait
until 10:00 at night to be here. Believe me, they are thrilled
about it but that point they actually get back to feeling
like they're not, you know, inhale.
So that's that's the better time for all of us.
It's funny that you mentioned that.
I don't think I had to dinner tonight.
I just wasn't like, no, I'm good.
That's why everyone near the equator US Open.
I imagine everyone. That's why all of us, all of us
who lived in Michigan are just so big.
Yeah, there you go. All right, well, good luck to
everybody this weekend. This has been the horse racing
happy hour Megan Good Show and I will see you tomorrow morning
bright and early. Of course, if you are listening
tonight you can check us out tomorrow 10:00 to noon on a
sports, talk with Dan Issel. In my prep, we've been doing a
Friday segment with a with Dan Previewing these races.
And so the good thing Megan, I love this because I do all the
prep tonight and I don't have to prep for the show tomorrow.
See there you go. Two for one deal, two for one.
Megan is a bird in hand for me. They go folks but this has been
the horse-racing happy hour. We will see you next week, I'll
miss it.