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Welcome to the horse racing. Happy hour.

There it is. That was a good prank.

What did you use for that? We use a glass.

And a single barrel, cigar tube. So, there you go.

Wow, yeah. I'm like a Boy Scout but a

little more resourceful than we have JD back.

Which means there is an adult present, which is good because I

mean, I do not I'm Glenn and I mean, I should be good with

technology. I'm not so or maybe I just

choose not to be On certain occasions.

I don't know. But lots of choices being made

here. Yeah, yeah.

At least we have jd2 to help us out here.

JD we missed you. Well, I missed you guys as well,

and Megan. I technically also am a

millennial. So I'm just on the other side of

it, the very late stages of being a millennial.

I gotcha that makes sense for the early, I should say,

apparently generation. Oregon Trail.

I had no idea, but I have not died of, I have not died of

dysentery. And here, I I am Megan does not

understand that reference. We're going to keep going.

I think I played the video game look there.

Yeah, that's really old. You got it.

That was super fun. Yeah, hashtag Megan is too drunk

to wrong. I'm not I whoa, you know,

although I tell you I'm gonna tell you that pregnancy.

Brain is a lot like being drunk, like I can't think of the words

for things. Like mommy's is legit.

It takes me a while to process things.

Like my husband was trying to explain something to me the

other day. We're doing some Renovations in

the house and he was like, yeah, you have to do like this because

of follow lot and I was like, wait, what?

Like how are you not getting this?

This is the simplest thing in the world that I'm just trying

to explain to you. I don't even need your input.

I'm just letting you know what's going on.

I just think you need to stop and it's going on because I

don't get it. So yeah I guess I guess.

Is the baby is taking like, lowering my IQ.

I don't know. I'm not really sure how this

works. I'm just here.

That's a bar that we don't want to lower any further.

So baby, be nice. Easy to do this show all far.

All fall whatever. Yeah don't don't do that.

Just please ridiculous people ridiculous.

It's a it's also not to make the show like about my pregnancy but

you know most of you about how how weird like things are in

like the medical world. Right?

Like people are like, oh my God, you're pregnant, you can't do

anything, you can't do extra everything, you can't have this

medication, you can't do that and whatever.

So, that's been really fun. I've been fighting off like a

sinus infection with just like Tylenol when I have a headache,

which does nothing to help what's going on here, but it's

fine. And then yesterday, I had the

great pleasure of being woken up by a what I assume to be a

spider biting my leg. And that was really great and I

woke up in the entire thing was red.

I've been bitten by a spider before.

I mean like I'm hoping it's not like a brown recluse or

something but it did it not look like that.

Oh, went throughout the day yesterday?

Absolutely miserable, took like all Benadryl one small one and

went into what is what? I've now called.

Like a pregnancy, coma that suggests are knocked out for an

entire day. And then today I finally went to

the doctor and they were like, yeah, so we can't do anything.

Thing to help you but we can give you a tetanus shot.

So I got a tetanus shot. No, like you're probably going

to need one. Anyways, so you'll probably get

another one. Chuck, wait, man.

Which doesn't make any sense to me, but like it's fine.

It's totally fine. Everything, that sounds great.

It's funny that you mentioned that Meghan because thanks to my

social media timeline, I can tell that this I can tell you

that this This week is the three-year anniversary of me,

getting bitten by a brown recluse spider, really?

And yes, and I will stay and I will say this that there's a

certain Hilton property in King of Prussia Pennsylvania that I

will not be returning to ever again because it happened in a

hotel room and they didn't believe me.

And then I caught one in a cup and show them keep serious.

I'm making a face, which is bad for podcast, but holy bleep,

right? Wow.

Yeah, unbelievable. All right, so, programming note,

this is our last show of Triple Crowns season and will be moving

into Breeders Cup citizen starting next Friday.

Believe it or not. We're going to be doing the noon

show on ESPN Louisville locally here, sorry JD.

And so we're inviting everyone we know to come out and join us

at the track. And so if you are interested in

such a thing, We'll be on noon to three radio, rail 322.

Come on out. All of our sponsors will be

hanging out. So if you want to beat those

folks, as well, you havin a lot of fun.

We're going to have to set up, like a figure out the wind for

the, for the cigar section away from Megan enough that, like,

she could be there those sorts of things.

But noon to 3:00 next Friday at Churchill Downs, seven bucks to

get in. Just come on up, find us, and we

will have a bunch of giveaways and different stuff like that to

get off Breeders Cup season. And so I wanted to express our

very heartfelt, thanks to the guys at sea Will Ferrell as this

is our last time with them as our title sponsor this year.

And so they are going to be hanging out with us next weekend

though. So with some with some further

news and so all that is really great but moving on to Breeders

Cup sisters and I like it, you're going to have to get one

of those guys that does the like really into track bias, you

know? They're like the width, the

headwind was. Yeah, right over here.

In the three lane. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's there's some weird handicapping as a weird but to

each their own I guess, whatever.

Obviously you don't handicap much at wind buying Meghan

because that's what are you guys are you

Handicapping terrible enough. As it is Megan.

Imagine if I started believing in that sort of stuff, imagine

if that's what brought it to the next level, though.

Like, you all of a sudden, you're doing really weird

preferences. We are missing the, I guess the,

the can I see like the lowest the baritone of the group right

here? Would that be correct in the Big

Fudge? I mean, he just has one of those

like booming low voices that we haven't heard for a while.

We might Said, he went away to Italy and I'm super jealous of

that. And so, we are anxiously

awaiting, his his return here, but we're the Glorious return of

Big Fudge at church. It's almost yea, reminder, to

another programming thing. We're gonna be at the Indiana

Derby the weekend after man. So there's a lot of stuff going.

Fudges anniversary. It is.

It is the anniversary of the creation of Big Fudge.

And so we are going to celebrate in true, big frogs.

Budget. But oh my gosh, big budge.

No Big Fudge fashion and make sure that we have something

about doing a chocolate giveaway up there.

Okay, it'll actually Annapolis and I don't think ya know

imagine Big Fudge was running though on that day that would be

we should definitely claim that horse but inside To clean.

Big clutch. All right, let's talk about some

racing. We had quite a few races that we

covered last week. Louis, and I did, which is,

we're really good at doing like an hour and a half Audio Only

shows. No adults present.

Let's talk about the hot rod Charlie race or so many thought

it was. Who did not did not get the job

done there. That's big fudge is guy and it's

because I keep It wasn't on probably that he didn't win your

boy had my control though. I mean, if you listen to the

show, people, me and about half of the handicappers in the

world, had mind control on Saturday.

It's so now I just felt like a bounce rate for your hot rod.

Charlie, just didn't have it down the stretch.

I do think we have the stretch, call for this one.

If JD can go to, they reach the top of the stretch.

It here comes hot rod. Charlie to the outside of mine

control, who is a ton Nations Photo the inside shoulder to

shoulder here with a final, Furlong left to go and now hot

rod Charlie. Get out mind control will not

give in mind control comes back hot rod, Charlie my control HED

and had nose and nose. My control Hot Rod, Charlie

photo finish photo finish in the Salvatore mile to Great.

One winners, mind control and hot rod Charlie, it's a photo in

one minute. Thirty five point seven, nine

seconds. I love, I love the placement of

the microphones of Monmouth because you can hear the crowd

reacting to that photo finish. It's perfect because it looked

like hot rod, Charlie had overtaken him at the Furlong

pole and that thing was done and then he even squeezes them a

little bit toward the rail in my controls like oh right, I know

how to win races and just came back.

I was on. I mean hot rod.

Charlie hung like a cheap suit. That's just, it just did.

He just came up and he was like, Nah, I'm good.

And maybe that was the layoffs, or the balance, or whatever.

I mean, he still ran a good race, right?

But yeah, hey, yeah, he just can't get it done.

I mean, Those runs a lot of his best to races is best to win.

They should Savor the Louisiana Derby, and the Pennsylvania

Derby where he won by two lengths.

Hot round Charlie. Everything else has been either.

He runs out of real estate or it's like by a nose or you know,

right there. So he definitely is, it's not a,

you know, a horse. That I guess Wednesday, open

links but to be fair, neither is mine.

Control mine controls one by like a head, almost every time

that's just his game. I think he likes that

Competitive Edge of the head-to-head thing in the

stretch. JD would you think?

Yeah, I think this was definitely a case of he wanted

to run next to a friend for as long as humanly possible and and

just hung at the hung at the wire, there it was it was a

great dingdong battle down the stretch and look forward to see.

What's next for both of those horses?

Because I'm not really sure at this stage.

I know somebody had a lot of people had treated actually,

something about Hotrod truck or not.

He wrote a mind-control like winning a graded Stakes or a

grade One race like every year or something like that.

I don't know. It's just he's definitely a

horse, that's done. Some serious running and has

been in some good spots. So kudos to the connections for

keeping him going for as long as they have?

How about church? Hold Downs in the Monomoy girl.

I had wrote in my notes before when we talked about it, that

would be like a Carousel. And that society would win this

at, they would just go around and it would not change.

But let's see how it actually played out.

Here, comes Miss Yearwood. Launching a bid now and miss

your wood comes up alongside of society and they are

shoulder-to-shoulder at the top of the stretch Society down

inside Miss Yearwood. Alongside and they head for the

final Furlong together societies.

The end in tight, miss your Woods desperately, trying to get

by tap dancing. Lady furred.

Final sixteenth Society digs down deep and turns back Miss

Yearwood Society. Grabs the upper hand blades and

win, Man, that gun Runner? He makes some good horses.

I would say the only criticism of this race is it was a little

slow, right? You know, so you got 24 and 24

and for forty nine and a half and then I think the Mi was

almost 138 something like that. 139, we watch my control, Hot

Rod, Charlie one of the 135 range.

I get it. She's 3.

She's like, Hereford race ever. But I'm hoping that we just saw

her kind of coming out party in that we see her at Saratoga,

this summer, in society, I said last week with you Megan that my

hope for the race was That she would jump up and win this race

because it would inject another three year old Filly into this

already. Very good crop, a three-year-old

Phillies and we might have gotten that.

Actually she met, you know, it was a, it was enough to win.

I thought the ride Tyler gave her was really fair, really good

and so I'm hopeful that, we'll see her either, maybe not in the

CCA Oaks but certainly in some of those later races in

Saratoga. Well, I was going to say, you

know, certainly I agree with you.

The ride by Tyler, he's just, he has scratch the nests on a

horse, you know, you saw him there.

He's perfectly balanced, just showing her, the stick using it

when he needs to whatever, but I don't care about the time for

society. I mean if you're a front running

horse, that's the way to do it. Why not walk the dogs if you

can? You know, that's like saying you

need to work a bullet. Every time I think it's the

perfect way to win a race like that.

You don't need to set a track record coming back.

Second off of layoffs. Like you can stay in front and

go as low as you possibly can and still win, why not?

That's how I would win a race if I was running it.

Firestone class. I think I did really was, was

different, was that there? And that was definitely a

stretch Drive. We're at the eighth pole, it

looked like Monsieur would might go by and then by the time the

16th pole, you're like, nope. Not gonna happen though.

Transported much too classy. So that's enter cat stage left.

Sorry, I mean for anybody that doesn't watch what the author of

just say would be a Thursday at all.

Here you really miss out. Out the shenanigans, I guess we

can say of the horse race. Yeah, I have a great.

I have a great cloud of smoke. In front of me.

Megan has a great kind of front of her.

It's just, it is what it is. A great JD has a beautiful

background lady has a great beard.

Let's go. That's right.

There you go, but whatever. It's fine.

I mean, look at me today. I'm like in my white tank top

and my baseball trucker hat with the dad dance.

Your converted, it's over. It's done for you.

It's over and we're way past. It was different, by the way.

I texted your husband, on Father's Day.

I said, happy first Father's Day.

And instead of so generally, he texts me, one-word responses on

text. That, that is how he operates

with me, I don't know. Okay, now, I got punctuation.

I got, thank you. Very Which I'm very excited.

I was like, who is answering for his phone, and what is this?

And so, no. It's it was really the cat

Louis. It was like that.

Obviously, obviously, I'm very creative with my cat names for

those that don't know. I refuse to get cats for the

longest time, and then I did, and now I'm like, full-blown cat

lady, but I named them cat. And this one is gray because

he's great and the other ones kit.

So, Definitely need some name. Suggestions, for any rate, could

get scared with the child's going to be at that verse,

right? We should person and evening

human, I don't know. That's a terrible idea.

Yeah. Okay as long as they spell it.

The Pegasus the Haskell prep race was also a mom.

It's a ton of great races. I thought we talked about it on

the show, certainly they're a good sequence there.

We saw Homebrew with a little bit of a coming out party.

JD, Let's uh, let's go to the replay Homebrew is tipped off

the rail and here comes home. Brew, finally gets some Running

Room and Homebrew is ready to pounce.

Three wide coming after the leaders.

Is there? Well, clear Homebrew has taken

the lead. Homebrew in front to the top of

the stretch now, Sprints for a home and look at home.

Brew go. Electability battles on here

with cyber Viking. Gets far back to the Rest Home.

Brew is just riding away. Homebrew is strutting his stuff.

Down the stretch in the TV. G.com.

Pegasus takes Homebrew. Wins this one.

Emphatically Homebrew. Yeah, we talked about.

Yeah. Go ahead, man, fabulous race.

I mean, even just the way for Andrew gave a great ride on that

one, but the way he kind of cut the corner, you know, and then

just exploded. As soon as he changed over to

that fresh Legacy change leads, I thought it was a excellent

race for him. You know.

This is one that we kind of were like well what happened in the

was it the Smarty Jones? I Think We're a flop then they

gave him a little bit of a break they brought him back second off

the layoffs here you know. Now he's two in a row.

I think he's definitely A solid Contender for some of those

classic races that will will come up this year.

I think, certainly in the Haskell you have to include them

in your top three or four, no matter who ships, right?

I mean, he absolutely both both look the part and looks very

comfortable on the track. I agree with you Megan.

I think that there's something cooking here we saw him.

We saw Society, the last weekend.

What's a while those three year olds, just take a little bit

longer to develop and this appears to be one of those and

yeah, he looked as good as you're possibly going to look in

that in that company. Well, and they certainly they

were trying to be On the as you do try to do, right?

If you've got a three-year-old, I can go ride around on the

Derby trail and I tried the Smarty Jones.

Obviously, there was an issue there, so they did right by the

horse. And and that's ok, so, I don't

even know if it's a matter of just like developing late but

just he needed the time off. They brought it back.

They brought him back in April. They're like this is you know

there's no way we're going to the derby or whatever.

So let's just look at the other races.

So I mean you see for like I would have loved to seen him in

the Preakness, you know, something like that, right?

Skip. And then And those types of

races. But yeah, it'll be interesting,

you know, at the mildest 16th distance for the horse like

this, who's only ever gone, a mile and a half before and some

of his best races have been in a mile.

You get that kind of Versatility I think between.

Yeah I mean he Street sense and tap it on the bottom side of the

dam side, you can certainly think that this horse might go

longer but also maybe this is one that you see as a mile

Contender to Cheney. Would you think, I still think

this horse has a lot of room for growth.

I'm still seeing a lot of greenness in the running style

and, you know that Is race number six.

And, you know, I think there was a lot of explosion on the turn.

There wasn't a lot of control of that explosion on the turn, the

horse took a bad step and and almost fell over as part of that

explosion. And then also, feared sharply in

and at one point during the stretch run.

So, I think there's a lot of room for growth there as well.

So, it was a dominating performance, One Source, got

room and got outside of the other horses.

I mean that that also is may be a concern for me that this horse

Once a clean trip and does not like to be in the crowd but

other than that I mean there's nothing you can follow them

really nitpicking at this stage with that room with that run.

Yeah, no for sure. And but, I mean it's certainly

something to consider when you're talking about how

competitive some of these races will be leading up into later in

the summer. And as we, as we mentioned, into

Breeders Cup, Susan, Lewis, what do you what are you drinking

tonight? How do I take a swig?

Oh just dodge. I just old Forester. 100 my

After last year hanging out brown-forman.

This was my favorite of the I can afford them to do the weekly

show whiskeys. So I don't know, old photo.

That was a one that everybody had liked.

They really stepped up for us last year to, they were the ones

that gave us the old foe, 150 bottle, and everything else.

And so we ended up with after the after doing the prohibition

series. They gifted us something in the

range of two thousand dollars worth of gift of whiskey last

year or so, your, I'm still buying their stuff, I'll put it

that way. But yeah, the old photo Low 20s

on the price for a fifth. And so, yeah, I just I find it

to be really, really good whiskey.

And, and the cigar, what's the cigar of choice from single bear

scars. Yeah.

So, this is their Connecticut wrapper.

This is actually the barrel. They always mark it on here is

from Peerless, which is in downtown Louisville, as well.

So gladly the yeah, they buy these barrels from different

places. And so this is a Peerless barrel

with a Connecticut wrapper. And so it's a little bit

lighter. This would not be one that Big

Fudge would like, but I enjoy and so Especially good for a

90-degree day in the backyard. And so it's by the way,

apparently, because I've got a ton of messages about this, it

sounds like I'm doing the show in an Aviary and I have to tell

you, it's actually I'm doing a show in an Aviary.

There are a ton of birds. Yes, my backyard is very green,

it's very verdant. It is the opposite of JD's

backyard and so you know we have maple trees and what can I see

from here? We have that's a bald cypress

and then over there, smoke trees in the back.

We do have a mango Over there. That's right.

And so it's just a, the birds back here are very, very happy.

They enjoy our backyard and so it is what it is.

Yeah. Yardley aren't you in the most

severe drought in Arizona history?

Yeah but I have a nice big yard. Okay.

I just check it out because I feel like it is no that's more

of a my daughter likes to go and play in the sprinkler sort of

played it. The sprinkler is undefeated, it

really is. It's just undefeated generation

to generation. It never gets old.

It is undefeated for kids man it's the best.

Gotta love it. Yeah.

Well at least I'm not doing it outside because any time I've

had to take the conference call in the past, the floors here in

the house I have to go outside and do it which one it's been

really hot so don't love that. But do I have to preface the

call with? I'm so sorry.

If you hear the sound of a rooster or is running or Any

other format gold. Head-butting me in my own leg

gastro hundred percent. My office is currently outside.

It's called, so, please excuse the noise.

So maybe I'll have to switch places.

Do at some point, though, you can go back inside.

I'll go outside. What I, what I what I, you know,

bring this baby into the world sometime after that, I'll have a

single. Something Farrell cigar outside.

Oh, I'm gonna be great. It is funny, it did make me

giggle. I was thinking about it today.

You know, them hanging out with us.

All spring and how you just couldn't have won.

It was it was like perf like perfect timing for you not to be

able to enjoy that. Yeah it was great.

It's just right. I can't enjoy the single barrel

scars. My company is doing some work

for a Bourbon Festival and so I'm just at one point they did a

barbecue day and I can't really have that either.

So yeah, it's this is no fun. Hi, I remember we met back in

like 22 years, like twenty six months ago, something like that

and back then you would have a glass of wine at like 2:00 in

the afternoon. In California, doing the show on

a on a Thursday and that Megan would just shoot just cash out

the rest of the day. She just be all the beach like,

oh, wind up. I was part of the best yet loser

and you're good shells. Oh yeah.

So anyways lets me run. It is about two years ago so

hopefully I can save up for my for my binging that I'll do

after I'm not pregnant anymore but some of the races this

weekend that are happening, we have a variety we're going to be

talking Churchill Downs, thistledown thistledown.

I always want to put an X there. There is not one Belmonts and a

surprise track that we have thrown into the mix and JD we're

doing something. Even today.

What are we doing? Yes.

So my Sacramento Kings with the for selection, the NBA draft

just shows Kiki Murray from Iowa.

I don't know what's happening. Yes.

So we can be a draft is happening.

So figured this week, we would actually go through Race by race

and we'll alternate to make it fair will spread the love

around, but in lieu of a top pick where we all pick the same

horse, you're going to have your first selection.

If you're up first and you get to pick a horse, to win the

race, and that horse is off the board.

And whoever goes next, with their analysis has to pick a

different horse to win the race. So I'm Legit, I'm Legit not

happy about Keegan Marie, like I, I can't, I just okay.

So for people that don't know, I do, I do local Sports Talk Radio

here in Louisville with a man named Dan Issel.

Who's the NBA Hall of Fame, the Naismith Hall of Fame and we've

been talking and be a draft all week.

And I've been talking about all week by Pistons at five getting

Keegan Murray. Now, they get Jay and I be here

if they do that, not going to be mad.

I think he's the best point guard in the class, probably,

the highest upside, but I'm just, I'm out of my mind.

People can merge the best score in the draft is not closed.

Its not close. Not close.

And the Sacramento Kings suck. The worst of the Pistons which

is hard to do. They suck it.

Suck can Rudolph. They suck.

And I just, I can't, I can't, I can't I can't I just can't.

I can't just do something else. Megan.

He just yeah I just yeah right now is essentially what Louis is

doing. Is also on Wednesdays, we wear

pink, it's just you're not watching the stream.

I mean, again you're missing out the cat has left us but Louis is

pouting in the chair. So we're a Spotify that end of

his rope because he is on The Wire Headphones and they won't

reach. I'm a Daddy.

And I'm gonna wear the wired headphones until they're gonna

bury me. In these things, you understand

me and I just Keegan Murray. I do segment English so.

Okay. So we're gonna I feel like JD

should run this so we're just well I can I can I can run this

Megan. Yeah, yeah.

So Churchill Downs is where we're going to go first.

Trace 9 is the great three Chicago.

Steaks I wonder where this race used to be run.

It's for four year, olds and up going Belmont.

This is incorrect apologize. This does for Phillies and

mayor's 4 and up seven furlongs on the dirt.

I apologize that I rarely make mistakes on the graphics and

this is this is a case here, but we do have seven horses in this

field. And I think because he is on

tilt. We're going to let Lily go

second Megan, you have the first date in this race.

Amazing. I the best part about this since

I'm not picking the favorite will be, if this was going to be

Louise topic that will make it, I mean, chefs kiss, truly, but I

don't know where you live at but you know, Reckless like my

attack, change the gate code hurry.

Alright, I am going to Go. This is a really interesting

race because you have yes, Churchill Downs specialist.

And then you have a lot of horses that don't necessarily

love going, seven furlongs. And so that I thought was pretty

interesting because you get a lot of the six, six and a half

and while I know that might not matter to some, its I thought a

really competitive group of horses.

I think you can look at it and say, you might single sconce and

maybe that's your favorite horse.

Mitchell Merle gets them out, which is interesting because

You've never ridden this horse before, obviously joxer out of

town because of the other races going on like the Ohio jury

which we'll talk about later and not that Mitchell's not a good

Rider at all. The only ones about 12 percent

though Tyler's out of town and I feel like sponsons one of those

horses that you really have to move at the right time for her.

Especially if you look at some of the margins in which she's

won her races in the past couple of years of races.

So I either one, throw up, throw up.

Needless murchman right now she's going in on Mitchell.

Merle who was a terrific writer so just throw no, I refuse.

It's just that it's something to keep in mind.

All right, so that being said, I'm actually gonna go with for

Grace's as my top pick, because she loves this distance.

She is has won it four times out of nine races.

She's got three very good. Second place efforts towards her

down. She's 245 here, a couple days S

as well. I am just totally Crossing off

the grade one Madison from many of those Is that ran in that

race because I thought it was a bit bizarre.

It was muddy track that day, a long shot one, you know, it was

such a competitive field, so I am going to excuse that and then

the race before for her, she ran up against the monster of

obligatory. And so I know she's left a lot

to be desired in summer races. But I really love the seven

furlongs for her. And I'm hoping that she'll was

that, I would say maybe a little bit of class relief right from

the grade one last time. To this spot.

I think she not only provides value but she she seems to check

a lot of boxes for this. Where is there some horses in

here that are still really good. But maybe this isn't like the

race for them. Don't mind us.

So Jane IV does go to my Pistons.

I'm in a little better mood. We haven't done this Megan in a

little bit. This is officially the grade 3

Chicago. How do you grade this race?

Because this is a great town to to lure a moment.

Yeah, I think this is a great tool for sure.

Okay, cool. Yeah, I agree with for Grace's

is a 2-1 in a race. That's a, that's a great to

innovate and so. Okay.

Wow. So I get, I get my pick here.

I love by Ernest. I mean, I'm happy.

I mean, I love by Earnest in the spot but I'll take sconce in

just because I get, I get the favor in the second spot.

I'll go. Wisconsin, back-to-back wins

Winning Colors. First off the layoff of a, a

serious serious layoff of over six months second off.

The layoff is a, is a nice hit for Greg.

Foley smaller, Barn, 122 Runners this year, but hitting it 17%.

I'll Trust Mitchell. Moral actually think he's an

underrated Rider, I like him a lot in longer sequences, when I

play them at Churchill Downs. I actually trust him as a jockey

actually hitting at 16% out. Out like for the year and 418

runs and so scottson. I like because she's going to be

pressing and then overtake that was the one is so reliant on

heavy speed at the beginning. This is a surprisingly, this is

a race devoid of huge early speed, if that makes sense.

I don't think it's one that's going to fall apart.

You'll have lady rocket out front.

It'll be interesting to see what Kenny Baker does.

For example, well, that and Calypso will probably be

speaking to. She does her best friend I

think. Yeah, maybe I do.

At Lone Star. And so, you know, we'll see but

I You know, so I'll take the paper then if I get scottson in

the second spot I will be well that and when she was standing

you know as on the front end basically to so it's basically a

front in the LaBrea which is a great warrior race as well.

Louis. So that was a little needless

disbursement on Calypso there but here's it we here's what's

interesting about this. Yeah.

But if I hadn't because brilliant cut in living my best

life of come back to run, huge freaking races and I guarantee

on this show We would have definitely called that a grade

one. I'm get out of here.

Go ahead. I am super salty the rest of the

night by the way. Katie good.

So if you have bad cakes, I'm gonna attack.

The bad takes just a heads up. It's okay.

So maybe this is a bad take, but if I had my first choice, I

would have also taken for Grace's.

Now, I'm kind of in a, in a bit of a quandary.

And so I'm gonna go with the unknown here and talk about

pennybaker a little bit because nice I like that.

You look at you know, good dolphin.

This is a Kentucky bred and You would say there's a lot of dirt

in this pedigree. So what do they do?

They try five races on the turf in France and then six races on

the turf from France and then they move to synthetic during a

time. When normally you would actually

want to be on Turf like the summer, still in France and the

horse has not lost since and that includes a win on the dirt

at Laurel and the mile races at Laurel, which I will say in mile

race at Laurel ends up seeming A7 for a long race and most

other tracks. So this horror that was

confidently, ridden on that day and you know, one for fun, 1 by

6 and 3/4 was really geared down late, it's in the, it's in the

comment, if you watch the video, it's there.

I think this horse could be a late four-year-old Superstar

Philly because they have her going in the direction.

She needs to go. Why they kept trying the turf

over and over and trying distance on the turf with this

horse. Remains to be seen, But the

pedigree said dirt would work Michael's didn't get the got

this horse. James Graham will be a board on

Saturday, but I will take pennybaker.

So lady rocket is probably going to go on the front end and not

quit and world loose. That's that's basically what

hahaha. But I just think she's like

shown a lot and if you do cross off that's like we talked about

last time she caught search results, Royal Flags.

Good horse ride. He was really tough multitrack,

fine. You get to the one.

Turn mile at Aqueduct back in December, where she won by nine

lengths. And then she's running out of

really good 74. A long races and she's run while

you're at Churchill Downs to. So I agree with you.

It seems like she's kind of one, you know.

It's weird to say like just just hitting her best ride as a

five-year-old, but it's true. She started off a bit of time.

You should never have any races in in 2020.

They started our late there and then they had a couple of races

in 2021 and just like, really allowed her to climb up the

class ladder. And now this year in her

five-year-old year is, when she's kind of making a name for

herself, which is fascinating. So it'll be really interesting

to see what has especially like JD said.

She's gonna be she's gonna be out there in front though.

As far as the lady Rockets likes to run in New York, she does not

like to run and Kentucky, she will not hit the board.

That's why she's one at Churchill before and she's

finished a good and an optional cleaner high five.

She's not gonna be possible claimer high five for I hiked my

folks for optional claims in a great.

It agreed to. Yeah, here we go.

Yeah, this is I'm soldiers bleep.

Let's keep going. Uh-huh.

Okay that's fine. Why are the Kings, okay?

So that brings us to Only One race right there were thrown at

Churchill. That means we're going to pull

this little down. This will down.

So it should be an S there. It's like, Kroger and Kroger's.

Right. All right, our first race at

thistledown will be the Cleveland Gold Cup which is

three-year-old, registered, Ohio, full.

So this is not necessarily Ohio breads.

They are Ohio foals. One, mile and 18 which is

missing an H. I'm Just pointing out all the

mistakes of my Graphics today. For those that are not watching

on the video feed. We've got a field of eight and a

very even Morning, Line Country Club Bobby a very lukewarm,

three, two, one, favorite. And Louis, it will be your turn

to go first here in the Cleveland Gold Cup.

You know. JD does the graphics a bit like

the the Sacramento Kings usually draft.

And so I'm disappointed that they're not doing it that way

tonight. Talking at Murray's.

So good. So I if I get to go first here,

I'll just take country, I'll take country, go Bobby, then if

I get that because I think brought us a bitch is He's is

poised to win a couple of the races here and so stretch out

first time last out in that in the Green carpet down in

Cincinnati and so I'm going to trust that that form is there

again. And so I will take a country

called Bobby with the first pick in the Gold Cup.

And I think the other big trainer that you have to talk

about when you're talking with thistledown is you've got to go

the Tim ham and I'm going to take Tim Hamza Runner here.

Tantrum, tantrum is possibility to close and see, this is why

this is fun tantrum in the first time routing last year in the

two-year-old. Best of Ohio, juvenile actually

bested Rumble strip or on that day has not done as well in the

Try and them going a mile, a 16th in the best of all have a

green carpet, which is a Turf race.

They got washed off the turf, although it had Notre forces in

it. So it was a very interesting

race back in the beginning of this month but tantrum.

And also, I mean, you know, I rad on and Ohio.

Ohio bread is on a closer arouse going to put on a clinic.

Is what's gonna happen? I think.

All right. Mega night.

I think you're a little upset at my pic so you're picking last

year. The problem is that I only put

two horses and e-cigs followed by the seven, which mean you

should take the, for start stuntman, who is going Sprinter

route and Robert goren, go 70% Sprinter out.

I'm just saying, what is last two races?

All the Bissell Downs? Nice little horse there.

You should take that one. It's on a daredevil know, it's

weird. I'm I'm going to take the

silence, the one, take silence the other.

Tim ham horse in here because the Soros has experienced

routing. So for the opposite, opposite

reason, I guess this is like my show better rightly, but let's

let's let's show bet you can. You can start a nice show partly

in that race - yeah, exactly. I'm going to show parlay my way

through the pick for graduate. Or is a $1 for.

So pretty exciting. And the closest.

That's where all that crack. That's where all that tractors

playing. The dollar.

Yeah, well said, a boy others. Let's go.

All right. I'm in a better.

What? I was trying to get to.

Let's keep going. Let's keep going.

Yeah, because I kept talking. Yeah, that's it.

All right. All right, race.

The next nine is the race 9. The George Lewis Memorial

steaks. Going a mile and a sixteenth.

Again, this is 43 and up registered, Ohio foals, and

we've got actually two pages of horses here for me to choose

from. And these are there's no also

eligibles here. All 13 will go if they are able

and I am going to go with the 12, Well solution, this horse

second time here in 2022, ran a Sprint, last timeout gets back

to what this horse does best. I mean, this is a seven year old

gelding that has won 13 times. In 45 starts has hit the board

33 times in those forty. Five starts and heads, did not

have a great end to the 2021 campaign and will say, you know,

basically actually I should say, the whole campaign did not win

in. One, but mobile solution will

change that and will the 12 force therefore 21 on the

morning line and we'll win this race to get the first win.

Since December of 2020, we're going back around the horn to

Megan Well I would have picked the 12 first but since I cannot

I am going to go to the for first song for Timothy hand and

I rather teach Junior if I couldn't get that pair in the

last race might as well take them now just 141 at the

distance here and it's certainly a horse that's going back to who

routing that worked out really. Well, the last time they did it

in August of last year, I felt era since then.

They've kept the horse sprinting, but it certainly does

seem to be one that has a good bit of speed regardless.

Of the distance of the race. Sometimes you see horses that,

you know, might be sprinters when they're going five, six,

furlongs, whatever, and then they'll sit off the pace a

little bit more when they're stretching out to route.

But this is a horse who was on the front end the entire time

that might have just been because of the off track or

whatever the setup of the race but something to consider as far

as Horses speed goes and I wouldn't necessarily say that he

is a need the lead type, he's come from way off of it before.

He's Talked a little bit. He's led the field before and I

like horses like that when they're doing something that

they don't normally do, which is this for stretching out again,

as obviously he is in experience at that because I think you are

not locked into your not pigeon-holed into one particular

running style and so versus like that.

I feel like they're really beatable for this or as I think

he doesn't solve a lot of favorites by being by being

versatile. Awesome.

So I get a last year's winner in the third spot is name is

authentic Cowtown. The 13 here who is second up

this year. Got a good six Furlong

freshening in May nearly winning stretching back out, seems like

a good spot if you can return to that form I think that he should

be able to win here. So I will take last year's

winner whose get to stretch, getting to stretch back out

after a freshening here in the third spot, the 13th, I would

have taken big truck. Second.

I would have taken the for third.

I Left mobile, whatever out of my handicapping altogether.

Unlike the Sacramento Kings, who took kick in Mario before we get

it? Well I figure I figure we would

at least get a break on gas if mobile solution wins that Joe

pulled up drinking that's true. Actually I guess I'll I'm given

Shady actually doesn't put liquid into his body That's what

he lives in Arizona because he doesn't require.

He doesn't require water. It's just a thing.

He. Oh, that's right.

He just forgot about. That is Pepsi.

Okay. You know, the answer to that

question Megan is no a resilient.

No, I'll take one race time. And is the lady, Jacqueline

Stakes, Phillies amaris 3 and up going 1 and 18 miles on the

dirt. And we've got fuel field of 10

here. Army wife is the three, two, one

morning, line favorite Mike maker with Tyler Gaffney own

aboard. Maracuja for Rob actress with

Kendra Carmouche up is the 421, second choice and I'm having to

go back through the the order and Megan.

You magically somehow have the first selection in this race.

Who are you going to pick? Look at that.

Now I will say that I had a very hard time, finding a quote

single in all of the races that we were talking about here today

but my Green Sheet, pinky cookies up, take a week, it was

sick Army Wife. I do think that this is the

horse, probably the best chance in here.

Now, that being said, this is a competitive field, I think you

can make a case for Army Wife. For Crazy Beautiful for,

possibly maracuja, who technically is a grade one,

winner at Saratoga. And maybe even the three horse

who comes in here, is kind of a little bit of an unknown

compared to those that have had a lot of good graded Stakes

experience, but but I think Army Wife Justin, what she has done

and winning a lot of those grade to grade 3 races.

Granted, it's been, you know, she won the black-eyed Susan at

Pimlico. She won the Iowa Oak.

So I don't know how much you put into that, but she Seems like a

horse that they've got figured out a little bit.

She obviously had some issues because she had to take some

time off and and didn't run consecutively in the end of

2021. And obviously, she started late

in 2022. She made her your season debut

here in June. I'm okay with that third place

finish. I think second off the layoff is

probably going to be better for her and in fact Mike maker wins

at 24% with that angle. Love Mike maker and Tyler

Gaffney on teaming up together, they went at 20%.

So Yeah, I'm going to take Army wife as my Piggies up picking a

week. Louie.

We're next. I like that.

So, this isn't it? This is a really cool race.

I think the top three here between Crazy, Beautiful.

Every wife and maracuja is a really cool race and it's an

interesting spot for trying to rob a interest to pick for

maracuja, who is one of the toughest Phillies to figure out,

right. She wins The Oaks like Megan

mentioned and she's like, I guess she's a grade one winner

because she shows up that day, right?

And you know, she comes back in an optional claimer and wins.

So I'll take maracuja with the S.

The second choice here because I'll Trust is The good off the

layoffs at 25%. I think she's primed here so

I'll take the nine. Maracuja Also, all right actress

and I know this because I asked his wife, sorry, he's name is

not that before. And I said, how do you say your

name? Because I can't say, I don't

know how to say it correctly. And she says actress like

Patrick. That's what I tell everybody.

So dangerous. That's really good.

I like calories camera moves every time he like Guys away

because I'm an old man. Yeah, he just, he just, it was,

that was really good. All right, who's the third pick?

I'm gonna pick you. Forget sometimes of you that not

everybody is watching this and it's just movies like that was

really good. That was really good.

Like I don't know what's going on.

More easily find us. You can is that look you get to

look at me. It should be at ease for

everybody every week. I will preface this by saying

that. I know this horse has only won

one lifetime race. But take charge Lauren is going

to be in front here. They're going to have to chase

down, Shake charge. Lawrence, you guys took

obviously my top two Selections in this race take charge Lauren

will be in the lead for the vast majority of this race.

I think malice might get a scent from the outside as well.

Louis, but I do think take-charge Lauren has a chance

to wire this field and will at least be out there for the first

mile. I like that old buddy.

Picked Crazy. Beautiful.

Yeah, I like her a lot, but I man I thought about because I

did traditionally hand handicapping for this show and

then we decided to do the draft format which is great man.

She was right there for me, Raphael right now, Rafael per

day her autos on this horse and he's unconscious right now.

He is riding like a madman just rating, really well.

If he needs to, he's closing really well.

If he needs to, he's really great right now and so trust him

a lot. So that's a like that.

Pick a lot for it there. One thing I will say about crazy

beautiful, though is a sixth place.

Finish getting two percent of the purse.

Will be enough to make Crazy Beautiful a millionaire, huh?

Just got to finish in the top six as a four-year-old.

Yeah, she's awesome. Yeah, but none of us are better.

All right now, that brings us another second.

Yeah. That brings us to the main event

at this will down, which is going to be the grade 3, Ohio

Derby three-year-olds, going 10, 18 miles, and we've got a field

of eight. Some very familiar names in

here. Tawny Port, Y tu Barrio with you

railroad classic Causeway and some other horses Louis

magically. You have the first selection in

this pic where and this pic where you going, I appreciate

that. You two have pics here and that

we're doing this version of the show.

But when you have a man Bond chest hair combination, like,

you have with Savage, Joseph Junior, and you bring that to

Cleveland the people of Cleveland are not ready.

They're not ready, they are it. And I want everyone in Cleveland

to know that they need to make their way to the track this

weekend to see the beauty of Barbados in your town, when

white a Barrio stalks this field.

Second third position. It's around that second turn and

Tyler says, Hey Big Boy, it's time to go and why the Barrio

says oh is this like the Florida Derby?

A grade one. Is this like the holy bowl?

A grade 3 and Tyler says yeah. Big boy.

It's time to go. He says that's awesome.

And he wins by three lights. That's what that's what I'm

talking about. And then you get to the Winner's

Circle and there's just a glistening South Florida.

Saffy Joseph Junior there. On Saturday, first pick thumbs

up of the week. Green Sheet racing.

The 5 Y tu barrio in the Ohio Derby.

Come get some Okay, it is. What about that is?

Now other working roll, if you're following along with the

show Don't know who he's replacing, but we're going fly

to Paris. Oh, is he the new king

Guillermo? Is that who he is now?

South Florida? Well, maybe like reference.

Let's go. That's a lot of drinking iPod.

Yep. I'm gonna go with Tawny Port,

nice and and I think really, you know, I read is going to be in a

position to do everything. Louis just said, it's a bird.

The trip is exactly the trip that Tawny ports going to get

and Tiny ports. Going to be Y, tu, Barrio by two

lengths. Megan.

Okay, no pressure. So I had Tawny port on top

followed by white a Barrio. So I guess we'll go to my third

choice which This is a difficult part because I don't even like

classic cause I say I just but it was either him or the four

horse ethereal Road who I truly in my heart of hearts feel like

at the railroad is a Miler, just in the way that he's built, but

whatever. But classic all is, like, making

the change to Kenny McPeak was previously trained by Brian

Lynch. Shockingly first time with the

trainer came AP courses. Win at 0% 0/4 20 at that angle

which I thought was fascinating. Yeah, it's not what he does.

He doesn't claim horses in the running back.

That's it. Yeah, I know, usually it's not

his thing, he doesn't decide horses have advised that sales

and they even said, classic either, like we're gonna try The

Derby. But like, that was never gonna

be what they were going to win here.

And of course, I was never gonna win the Derby and that's fine

and he steadied and he was slow and whatever dumpster fire that

it was. And so I think I'm interested to

see Brian and as a board him, I'm interested to see him in

Kenny's barn and I don't think he's a better horse than the two

that you guys. Shouldn't.

But if you're looking for a show better or try active, really

interesting play especially with the trainer change and the way

they've been working at Churchill Downs, prepping for

this race and it's possible. He's going to float up for you.

Maybe you continue your show parlays from earlier and so JD

do you did if you had to rank this with the third pick their

would you have taken classic cosplayer ethereal Road?

I've taken a few railroad. Yeah, classic that I think

classic Causeway needs a break and I think the trainer changed

might have something to do with that.

I don't want to read into that too much.

I don't want to put anybody on blast, but that's just my gut

feel of the situation where I feel like there might have been

a hey. This horse needs a break.

Oh we don't believe you. Let's find a new trainer.

That's a concern. I have going into this race

classic Causeway can prove me wrong.

I think classic Causeway of the two horses is a more talented

horse but I don't like classic Causeway in this spot.

Yeah, I just I like I like the connections of ethereal Road in

the third spot there. And so I was just asking because

I, when we talked about Pimlico that day we talked about, you

either play ethereal rotor, you spread and we decided to spread

and then at 30 road just showed up like a monster and so yeah, I

just don't know what to make it. I don't know what level of

horsey is but usually when we say that they that that horse is

an Ohio Derby type of horse or an Indiana Derby type of horse.

It just so happens that we have, you know, a, you know, a Tawny

port in a, in a way to borrow in this race.

And so it's just a little different that way, but but it's

cool. One of the things I've come to

enjoy more as I've gotten more into horse.

Racing is that these Regional Midwestern bees, especially

Ohio, Indiana, Iowa West, Virginia, whatever really do, Do

drop. You know because they gave up

their purses. They really up the the ANSI

there, they're drawing better and better horses and they've

turned into better fields. And this is an absolute example

of that. Yeah, no one's a president.

Yeah, I don't know. I mean, I, You Know, besmirching

Rich strike and saying, oh, he needs, you know, before before,

this, week's race was drawn, right?

Like originally I said, oh, you need to go to a race like the

Ohio Jeremy, but then I was like, no, even that I don't even

think he wouldn't be Ohio Derby, because if I graph competitor,

he's Charlestown and running the trucks on classic or something

like that. But like yeah, you have these,

these races at studies other tracks.

Don't focus on all the time that are really competitive now and I

think that's fabulous. So I'm right there with you

Louis, I'm really impressed by the fields that were drawn in

the last two races here at this little down the nose.

Hey, I mean, I know how to manage so like it.

Well, going to a place where I think you're more familiar with

the surroundings and can pronounce things a little

better. I, we're gonna go to this place.

Belmont Park. Is that is that is that how to

pronounce? I'm curious Belmonte Park and

racing all these wild Applause, Stakes, Phillies three-year-olds

going, one mile on the turf force and as per usual on the

naira circuit, it's a Turf race for three-year-olds.

So we have three Chad brown spots in this race.

I find myself going first and I believe, That this is very

simple. The horse's name is imminent

Victor because this horse will be the imminent victory in this

race. The Natoma last year is such an

incredible race. You look at Wild Beauty.

That's the low. North American start for wild

beauty and and Frankie to Tory came out and Road wild beauty

masterfully. That day is come back in one

more in France, Pizza, Bianca. I mean enough said there and

eminent Victor was right in that equation.

Chad Brown, second time in the barn is going to take the

blinkers off. This horse gets five and proud

aboard. Everything you like here 279 day

layoff I'm not concerned has been training for a long time.

Palmettos up to Keeneland to Churchill and now finally the

Belmont I think in a Victor first off the shelf wires this

field. Megan, you get second picture.

Oh, I do, I don't follow these things, I just wait for

Direction. So I I like Breezy a bit, the

four horse for Kristoff. Come on and Joel Rosario ran a

really, really good second last time actually too good to really

lose in the storm softly at Belmont going seven furlongs.

So we are getting the stretch out to a mile here but you get

that kind of shoot my Situation on the wide nature of course.

Oh, my feet are of course. Yeah, exactly.

But I thought that that race was really good with the way that

she ran but also because this horse had quite a bit of trouble

was in tight and then had to alter the course.

And, you know, we talked about we have talked about on the

show. I've talked about it, momentum

in races and I felt like the momentum of breezy was

definitely interrupted and that's so hard for a horse to

recover from. Really a horse that's you know

has to make one run at the end of a race and it's like you're

going to run out of real estate and that's exactly what

happened. So I think with a better trip

here, Joel Rosario is aboard this time.

Some making a rider switch. I think that Breezy is going to

show us your stuff here and you know she's she's in some decent

races overseas I guess some okay races I guess.

But I I just love Kristoff come out with these types of imports

and I expect her to Really improve here.

So I love her second off the layoffs in this spot.

I totally agree that Megan your second pick would have been my

top pick. I'll go with Oakhurst, then,

Jose Ortiz, and Chad Brown, because it's hotei who under the

Jose Ortiz and Chad Brown, since I have to make the third pick

here in a 5-horse, field has one heard last two, and go ahead and

Trust Oakhurst to go three for three here.

Okay, there you go. All right, we've got one more

Belmont, which is going to be the eighth race.

The great to Mother Goose, or as time form, has it on their, on

their past performance, is the Mongoose which I actually kind

of prefer. No.

Are you serious? Yeah, we have we have five

words, fields, and JuJu's. Matt is even money favorite in

this spot for black brag talks and floor on Giroux.

Megan. You have first pick in this spot

but you're going to give it to that bird behind leaving right

now? It's multiple birds.

Thank you. Sounds like a pterodactyl chick

but honestly, what is that? I'll be looking up in Surprise

as look like binoculars, right? Like he's like bird.

That's what woodpeckers look like.

Identifying all the different ones.

Oh my gosh, I can't not hear it. They give you live a 70 goats I

have thrown. Oh, I know

sponsor. You are really not wrong.

I wish you were right by the way.

And anyways, I'm gonna take your juice map.

I don't know favorite. He, right?

That being said, I actually feel like this is a really good race.

I could have made a case for shama and you invent a valentine

who I was shockingly impressed by in the morning works in the

Oaks. You got a really weird way of

going. She's really aggressive type of

a filly. She like had to be restrained

back. She had her head going up really

high every time and I asked for a break.

I said, is that how she usually is that normal for her, or is

she just on it today? I don't know what's happening

with the cat downstairs. But but he said no, that's how

she goes every day, every time no matter where we are, because

I thought I was gonna be the slop or something during the wet

days. But yeah.

No, that was, that was interesting.

That being said, what is your deal?

There's yeah, let's go. Let's yell about the burns where

there's like at your house. Okay.

Yeah. Okay.

At least cats in the birds are in the same room.

Let's just put that he felt left out I guess.

Okay so anyways I definitely had juice map on top so I'll take

gerrymander in the second spot here.

Coming out of the eight Bells did not run well but when in New

York two wins in four starts when it Belmont already likes

the surface there so I will take one in the in the tempted at a

mile. We're going a mile on a 16 /

that one turn At Belmont. And so second awfully off here,

I will go ahead and take the Chad Brown trained gerrymander

at 12:55. My S.

You like that horse. I did.

Yeah, it didn't work out but yeah, I liked her a lot.

Yep. Well, that was my top.

Pick in the race. So I am given in your face, the

options. Thanks, Tyra.

I'm gonna go with shama because I think if we sprung the gates

Like at the start of this show for the Kentucky Oaks I think

Sharm is still in the gate at this stage.

I mean that was just that was just rough.

Just didn't have a chance that day and is is always a tracking

horse. I just want to see this horse,

get out of the gate and maybe flavian learned something last

time. First time on the horse, that

can ease the horse a little bit into the gates, calm, the horse

down a little bit beforehand and get a good spring of the It's I

was actually quite surprised to see this horse at 9:00 to 5:00

in the morning line. I think this horse will probably

float up and I think gerrymander will float down and they'll both

muted about five to two. I also love one mile and a 16th

for shama though with the munnings.

You know, on top. I think.

Sure. You think I learned all that and

I don't know. I first of all, I agree with you

and I think that the trouble was more.

So the result and, you know, Thing with the Kentucky Oaks.

But I think this is a type of race that really will probably

suit her as far as pedigrees or concerned that mean half.

But looking at lucky have to Kenzie.

I mean this horse has like everything you want to see in

the pedigree and you know the The Sire line and everything for

this distance. I mean that's a great point -

all right so I have to Report. We are 65 minutes into the show.

I have hit my fingers on the cigar and so we are officially

ducking out of our single cigar for the bank.

There you go. Well, that, that brings us to a

very important part of this show, because every draft now,

obviously, this is more famous in the NFL draft, where they

make a big deal, and have a parade and a jacket and

everything for mr. Irrelevant the last Pit and the

draft. So we figured, you know, hey we

have a draft here and we're going to find the least

appreciated Stakes race on the on Saturday, which also might be

the stakes race with the lowest person in the country.

And we're going to highlight and we're going to spend Like that.

We're going to try to find a winner.

And unlike what we just went through at Belmont with these

five horse fields, we found you a ten horse field as we head to

Prescott Valley Arizona, race number running of the inaugural

Stakes, which is a five in one inaugural threat for

three-year-olds it up. We've got ten horses and they've

been bred everywhere and I don't even know where to begin other

than Louis. It's your pick to go first and

And we also think is this is this the first running of this

race or? No, no, no.

It's the as I said it was the it's the third running of the

inaugural Stakes. There you go.

Okay, I just wanted to make sure we cleared that up there.

Sorry Louis. You see these 10 wonderful

horses where you going to go? I got the gelding.

Ha ha ha. All right, so he's five or ten

of the distance. Got some time off after a

clunker in March Topic in the race.

I will take the 922 tapped to the max with Justin Evans.

And Cody, come back. My wife just got home and then

started the other car and now she's moving her other car.

Some We're and I don't know what it's like, this might be a sign

if I am I not wearing this next week?

You'll know why. Well, I don't know why yet.

But um, yeah. Yeah.

No, just a heads up. So no, I will take.

I'll take the three tap to the max with the first pick in the

inaugural day running steaks. Alright, second choice and I'm

going to tie this whole show together with my selection of

the five Dylan rocks. You want to know what jockey was

aboard? Dylan rocks for the debut Louis.

I don't know which one. Dildo, dildo rocks, debut, good

God, good, it's a while ago. What's yours is, here we go,

let's go. Oh no, that's okay.

That was the day I ran Ortiz, Junior.

Okay, there you go. So you have to go back a ways.

Obviously this horse is not ran on the dirt.

Very often has mainly been a Turf horse but you know, ran a

couple. Good dirt races at Aqueduct, had

a decent dirt race at Belmont. Can definitely handle the

surface and I think is just classier than the rest of this

Bunch obviously has not had a good season and, you know, we're

done talking about class. Well, I mean, yes, but this was

a hundred forty thousand dollar. OBS purchase by painter.

Obviously, this was the first racing. and still the first

horse out of rock a lily to hit the racetrack but I mean this

this horse 21 Morning Line. We're not going to get that.

I think people will look at this and say okay this is a mic maker

horse that you know one in 2021 at Tampa Bay Downs, one at 20:20

and 2020 at Gulfstream Park a couple times.

I think Dylan rocks. One Cantera Gutierrez is a very

talented trainer but usually a claiming and turn back trainer

usually plays the claiming game really well.

We don't see him take horses off the layoff very often so that is

a very interesting part of this Luckily, the short laugh, it's a

three month layoff. So I'm going with Dylan rocks at

21 and Louis is back on the show and Megan, where are you going

to go? You got Hannah Leahy on your

horse there. Dylan rocks, who was an exercise

rider for a long time and a good horse woman as well.

He's now turned into a jockey, I am genuinely shocked that I get

either. One of these forces.

I figured you would just go with Classy.

Because I mean that's you and me right obviously yeah I'm gonna

go with the 10 Ramblin Man. I mean over for here at Arizona

Downs with a couple of second and third place finishes but

likes this distance, reformat the distance and has one last

four races. So I like that trainer Dan Kenny

is when at fifteen percent so far this year and you know

coming up just a little bit of a Lay off since mid-april but

seems like there's is working well over at how to work.

Actually I should say Arizona Downs, just one.

Yeah, work before this. So I'm going to, I'm going to

take that horse. I like how uh-oh Bango is just

like every now and then pops up as The Sire with, like, a great

with a good winner. There was a few horses in

California. That I remember us talking

about, were like, who, oh, bang go, right.

And then I was like, you get a horse, it just like loves to Win

It. Just go on these streaks.

So, yeah, I'll take the ten horse.

One of my favorite things on the form is when it's a zhr and they

feel the necessity to say Arizona horse racing.

Yeah, we get it. We know what that means.

It's okay. Michael will get hers just fifty

four hundred dollars. Yeah, I love that.

Yeah. Like Jay said, these sources are

from everywhere to You've Got a New Mexico.

Bread, Arizona bread. I think there was a Kentucky,

California bread was like Idaho bread.

Yeah. I mean, it's just it's

fantastic. Really.

It's great. This is, this is a great race to

pick j.d. And they're also going to turns.

So just, I also like how they, at least in the Daily Racing

Form that they don't abbreviate Idaho neighbor V8 every other

state, right? That's such a good point.

No, no, this is Idaho. Yes, you read it correctly.

Just so you don't mistake it for if she'll be clear, this isn't

fair. That's what's happening here.

I just I love it so much. How far of a drive is Arizona

downs from your house j.d.? Now JD your mutant.

I can get there in about two hours and 15 minutes but about

an hour and 15 minutes of that is driving through Phoenix.

Yeah. Right.

Okay. I have to get through Phoenix

and then it's like an hour. What would you consider your

home track essentially? That's a heck of a question,

right? I'll is basically equal distance

between Turf Paradise and really do Park.

I would want to claim really do park for the history more so

than anything else the birthplace of horse racing.

So yep. We'll go.

There we'll say that's wrong track.

Good enough. Their whole third oldest track

in the country. Yeah, it was good.

Movie. What's yours?

Churchill's my home track because the know I can

appreciate other than Assiniboine.

I would say Churchill is no, the first-ever the first-ever horse

race I ever attended? Was at church I mean I have this

as something. So the fact that you did not

hashtag Louis Picks a horse that broke made in Seoul at Horseshoe

Indianapolis. Hashtag drink we're waiting for

that. It hasn't happened in probably

the last 10 episodes. Yeah.

I don't know, don't worry midnight, give it a 15 days.

I'll have to do that, but I by the way, I just I know he's

listening right now. Once this is released, he'll

listen tomorrow, but a guy named, Mike Mills has been a fan

of our show for over two years and I got to meet him last

Friday because he and his dad did it.

Yeah. He and his dad that a father-son

weekend. He told me he's in his mid-30s.

It was the first time his he and his dad ever got to a father-son

weekend and he just me and he said, hey or frankly, DM me on

Twitter and he said, hey, we decided we're going to go to

Churchill and golf and do this stuff.

You have any recommendations in Louisville and I said, what day

are you going to the track? And he said, oh, we'll be there

on Friday and I said, you know what, man, I'll meet you out

there and he's a it's from Texas and Megan knows this.

We have a weirdly huge following in Texas and because you can't

bet on your phone you like have to drive that the track to bet

it's pretty incredible. And and Got to meet Mike and his

dad and yes especially now is right.

And I got to I got to meet Mike and his dad and it was it was a

cool Experience you forget on this show that that it's it's

that we have fans all over the country and they listen and I

was really appreciative to get to meet Mike and hang out and I

think I got to show him a good time at Churchill Downs.

I hope that's true. And he said something like we

were standing in the paddock because I totally abused my

media privilege and we're standing in the paddock before.

I don't know the fifth race or something and he's looking

around, he's looking at the at the Spires.

And he goes, I can't imagine this being my home track.

And I had to remember for a minute that Churchill's my home

track and I get spoiled here pressure, you know, ten weeks a

year, whatever it is. And and all the great Horsemen

and women that are here and all the great horses and everything

else and the cards and what have you and it was it was just an

excellent and excellent experience and so Mike thank you

for I know. I'm sure Mike think so Louis.

He got me in the paddock and I got to do, you know, it was, it

was cool to hang out with someone who hangs out with our

Every week and we really feel that way.

And so Mike, cheers to you and cheers to everyone that does

hang out with us every week because we really do mean it.

When we say thanks for hanging out with me, knit and You know

it's a was it was frankly, pretty humbling.

I got to hit him a single barrel cigar say, hey we're so that was

really great and so Mike, thank you for a terrific experience.

I really appreciate it. And for anybody else, that wants

to meet up with any members of the horse-racing a PR, please do

so. It's great.

And on that note, as well, might as well.

This is fun. I'm glad we did the, the, the

draft and got Louise, you know, emotional response to their

draft going on. Let's call it the other draft

and and I'm sure we'll see. This format repeated on other

podcast here shortly. So, yeah, this is fun.

This is Time. I think we're being kicked out,

though, because we are 17 minutes, past closing.

So with that, thanks for hanging out with the horse race.

Be happy hour on - I'm. He's liquor bow.

He's JD Fox Big Fudge, missing this week but we'll catch up

next time Thursdays at 8:00.