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Dick Jerardi | Horse Racing Analyst | 05-01-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: The Kentucky Derby. Were talking horses. You know, Johannah Wisher.
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  Speaker 1: We love Johanna, she's so cute, works with Trump, her father,
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  Speaker 1: who's a great music guy. Robert checks in. He says,
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  Speaker 1: session drummer, Steve Dad. He said, Buddy Rich league of
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  Speaker 1: his own Ian pace. He mentioned from Deep Purple, We've
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  Speaker 1: already got Keith Moon in there, hesheiy Augenbaum, Dave Clark,
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  Speaker 1: somebody mentioned Sheila e and somebody mentioned Ringo Starr on
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  Speaker 1: the Beatles. Anyway, tomorrow is the one hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 1: second running of the Kentucky Derby, a race we cover
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  Speaker 1: every year. And I don't know how long Dick Giardi
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  Speaker 1: has been doing this. He's been out with me forever.
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  Speaker 1: I don't hear from Jimmy a lot, you know Shapiro,
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  Speaker 1: but he calls me when it comes time for the
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  Speaker 1: big races, and it's always Dick Girardi. Hey, how many
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  Speaker 1: years have you been doing the commentating the analysis for
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  Speaker 1: the Triple Crown races?
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  Speaker 2: About four decades, starting in my hometown of Baltimore, and
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  Speaker 2: then I've been in Philly for forty years. Yes, of
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  Speaker 2: four decades worth of commentation.
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  Speaker 1: Now Baltimore. Of course, you've got Pimlico with the second
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  Speaker 1: race of this thing. Is I don't know, Am I wrong?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know?
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  Speaker 2: It is it's not this year that they're rebuilding it
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  Speaker 2: like they're rebuilding Belmont Parks that are moving the race
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  Speaker 2: to Laura, which at thirty minutes away. Oh dealy sure
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  Speaker 2: sure the previous is that Pemlico.
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  Speaker 1: Normally normally right. So I got a buddy named Keith
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  Speaker 1: Cantowitz and he's actually taking me to the Yankee game
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  Speaker 1: Monday night for my birthday, which was able the nineteenth.
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  Speaker 1: But he has a place up in Saratoga and he's
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  Speaker 1: asked me three times already this week to go. You
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  Speaker 1: mention the Belmont, to go to the Belmont in Saratoga.
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  Speaker 1: You mentioned the fact that they're working on the Belmont.
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  Speaker 1: That track will be done next year. So what an
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  Speaker 1: unbelievable opportunity horse racing has this year running the Belmont?
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  Speaker 1: Maybe a triple crown possibility, a beautiful Saratoga.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a third year in a row they've been
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  Speaker 2: up there. Said, because as you know, they're rebuilding Belmont
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  Speaker 2: Park and Belmont Park. The new one is actually going
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  Speaker 2: to open September the eighteenth, and then they'll run the
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  Speaker 2: Belmont Stakes at the new Mailbok Park in twenty twenty seven.
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  Speaker 1: Awesome. Well, let's get to the Kentucky Derby. This is
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  Speaker 1: the big one. I gotta tell you my memory I've got.
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  Speaker 1: This is years ago. I haven't been done this before decades,
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  Speaker 1: but I went to Vegas years ago for the big fight.
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  Speaker 1: It was De la Hoya Mayweather, I think, okay, and
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  Speaker 1: everybody came to this. I think that was the one,
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  Speaker 1: Dela Hoya Mayweather, but everybody came. And I remember there
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  Speaker 1: was a picture Saturday morning, or maybe Sunday morning of
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  Speaker 1: all the planes, all these private planes at the local
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  Speaker 1: airport in Vegas that will literally Dick Giardi parked so
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  Speaker 1: close to each other that the wings were almost touching.
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  Speaker 1: And what happened was that afternoon before the big fight
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  Speaker 1: in Vegas. That night was the Kentucky Derby. So Tom Brady,
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  Speaker 1: Clint Eastwood, hundreds, I'm not lying you, hundreds of big
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  Speaker 1: time celebrities made their way from Kentucky to Vegas. What
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  Speaker 1: a day that must have been. But those guys, you
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  Speaker 1: get a Kentucky Derby and a prize fight in Vegas
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  Speaker 1: the same day, But for some reason, that one sticks
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  Speaker 1: with me.
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  Speaker 2: I remember the day well, and I specifically remember Tom Brady.
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  Speaker 2: And what's interesting, SIT is that the airport at Louisville
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  Speaker 2: is literally five minutes from Churchill down. It's right across
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  Speaker 2: the highway, so it's not hard And the same scene
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  Speaker 2: there with all those chests lined up next to each
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  Speaker 2: other with the wings almost touching.
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  Speaker 1: That's awesome, that is awesome. Where are we with you?
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  Speaker 1: Remember a couple of years ago, Dick and I hyping
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  Speaker 1: it up something negative because I loved them. Arow, what
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  Speaker 1: do you do? I love the pomp. I love this circumstance.
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  Speaker 1: I get into it big time. But a couple of
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  Speaker 1: years ago, remember when like seven horses died at the
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  Speaker 1: Kentucky Derby and through all these crazy conspiracy theories and
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  Speaker 1: nothing really came of that after that? Did we ever
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  Speaker 1: find out what that was all about?
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  Speaker 2: It was one of those bizarre happenstances. The good news
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  Speaker 2: it hasn't repeated itself. And Sit, over the last i'd
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  Speaker 2: say fifteen years, they've done a great The number of
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  Speaker 2: horse casualties has come down dramatically just because of different protocols.
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  Speaker 2: At different racetracks. But yeah, that was definitely an anomaly,
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  Speaker 2: and it was a scary thing. It might have happened for.
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  Speaker 1: Sure, doing sports down in South Florida for as long
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  Speaker 1: as I did, That's when I first got to know you,
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  Speaker 1: Dick and Jimmy probably too, And I'd be at Golfstream
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  Speaker 1: all the time, big races, you know, the A lot
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  Speaker 1: of the big races I actually held at Golfstream then.
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  Speaker 1: And I know Santa Anita, for example, has some big
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  Speaker 1: races too. Obviously some of these horses running in the
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  Speaker 1: Derby wind at Santa Anita. So I'm aware of some
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  Speaker 1: of the big races throughout the year around the country,
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  Speaker 1: but of course still not as big as the Big three.
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  Speaker 1: But in terms of health health for the actual horse
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  Speaker 1: racing sport.
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  Speaker 2: Where are we to Kentucky? Derby itself has never been healthier.
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  Speaker 2: They can't build enough seats at Churchill Downs, and the
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  Speaker 2: radies will be great on NBC.
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  Speaker 1: How many how many seats are there? I'm just curious.
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  Speaker 2: Well, there'll be more than a hunter fifty thousand people
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  Speaker 2: there to low now, some many of them will be
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  Speaker 2: in the infield with no seats, but most of them
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  Speaker 2: will will be either seated or in an area where
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  Speaker 2: you can hang out at a bar, at a restaurant
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  Speaker 2: or whatever. So yeah, and they keep building on and
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  Speaker 2: people keep buying the tickets that are not inexpensive, so
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  Speaker 2: that the Derby itself, the Triple Crown is fine, the
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  Speaker 2: Breeders Cup is fine. The problem said is there's it's
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  Speaker 2: an event driven sport without enough big events on a
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  Speaker 2: regular basis. It's not like se the PGA Tour, you
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  Speaker 2: know what's going to happen every week, Mascar, you know
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  Speaker 2: what's going to happen. Obviously, the the NFL, NHL, NBA, MLB,
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  Speaker 2: we all know what's going to happen. That's Steve Shoe
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  Speaker 2: for Hersery racing. It just doesn't have enough of the
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  Speaker 2: big events.
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  Speaker 1: Surprise because there tracks everywhere. And now you know, when
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  Speaker 1: I was a kid, for example, Dick and don't don't
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  Speaker 1: get offend their upset. But I used to live very
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  Speaker 1: close to own TV and my dad would never bet
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  Speaker 1: on anything. He had no addiction issues, which he's the
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  Speaker 1: clear opposite of me, thank god, but he would but
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  Speaker 1: the big races, so would grab me and say come
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  Speaker 1: out some we're going OTB on King's Highway. He bet
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  Speaker 1: two dollars, you know, two dollars to win. Maybe he'd
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  Speaker 1: spurge and go five bucks for a win place and
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  Speaker 1: show what it was. But I remember walking in and
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  Speaker 1: I was like, oh my god. It was like the
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  Speaker 1: waiting woman beetlejuice. They were like half dead. The cigarettes
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  Speaker 1: were smoked down to the filter, old flannel shirts, a
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  Speaker 1: guy that looked like they spilled corpy or scotch all
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  Speaker 1: over it. It was the worst looking clientele I'd ever seen.
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  Speaker 1: And I was like, well, these the people that enjoy
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  Speaker 1: horse racing. You don't got to do that anymore. Now
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  Speaker 1: you can just sit on your pone and basically bet
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  Speaker 1: at any track in the country. Why would it be
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  Speaker 1: more popular?
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  Speaker 2: Correct? So ninety five percent of the money now is
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  Speaker 2: bet away from the racetrack, right There aren't brick and mortar,
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  Speaker 2: it's just not there. Not as many exists anymore. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you can bet on your phone, you better on your laptop.
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  Speaker 2: You can bet anywhere. But again the big events like
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  Speaker 2: the Derby, people want to be there, a to be seen,
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  Speaker 2: to see other people. So it is an absolute scene.
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  Speaker 2: And what's cool about tomorrow? Said you got twenty horses
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  Speaker 2: run it's the only race we have in a country
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  Speaker 2: with more than fourteen. So the betting opportunities at bet
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  Speaker 2: online dot ag are just outrageous. You can get five
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  Speaker 2: to one on the favorite at the moment, Renegade. That
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  Speaker 2: doesn't happen in any other horse race all year.
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  Speaker 1: No, it really doesn't. And like Dick just said, bet
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  Speaker 1: online dot ag, that's how I recommend you place your
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  Speaker 1: wager tomorrow, bet online dot ag. Yeah, I'm looking for
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  Speaker 1: like a five to two horse. You're somewhere or and
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  Speaker 1: like you said, five to one on the favorite, which
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  Speaker 1: is Renegade and further Ado not fall behind at eleven
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  Speaker 1: to two. Now I'm not sure if that'll be the
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  Speaker 1: same tomorrow. You mentioned twenty horses usual, there's a couple
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  Speaker 1: of scratches, right, so we down to maybe eighteen or something,
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  Speaker 1: although maybe not every single year. So why do you
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  Speaker 1: think that's the case that you got such are good
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  Speaker 1: bye you at five to one?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? I think because there's so many horses and there's
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  Speaker 2: no obvious winner. I mean, like Renegade, further Ado, Commandment,
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  Speaker 2: Chief Wallaby, the Puma, they all kind of look the
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  Speaker 2: same sid So that's why it's hard for the betting
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  Speaker 2: public to separate like which one should be the favorite.
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  Speaker 2: There's no American won the Triple Crown in twenty fifteen.
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  Speaker 2: There's no like a triple Crown winner that we had
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  Speaker 2: in twenty eighteen, and justify those horses just aren't in
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  Speaker 2: this race and we aren't. We actually have had three scratches,
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  Speaker 2: but there were four on the also eligible lists, so
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  Speaker 2: they've all moved in at the starting gate. So at
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  Speaker 2: the moment we still have twenty, but three of the
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  Speaker 2: original horses are out and three others moved in.
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  Speaker 1: No, it's funny. I got the horse racing big time
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  Speaker 1: years and years ago, and I didn't know much about
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  Speaker 1: the sport. I didn't go watch these guys. The horses
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  Speaker 1: race every year, the guys, but I started betting based
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  Speaker 1: on the jockey. So when I first started getting into
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  Speaker 1: this sport, just so you know, a Dick Griardi, Gary
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  Speaker 1: Stevens was on fire every time this time, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And it was an era where a lot of horses,
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  Speaker 1: a lot almost every year, they'd win the first two legs.
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  Speaker 1: They get you all excited, and then havoc, like charismatic havoc.
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  Speaker 1: What happened in Beaumont in that third leg. You know,
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  Speaker 1: silber Drama I think also came up short of Gary
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  Speaker 1: Stevens horse. We had a stretch there many many years. Well,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of these horses won the first two legs
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  Speaker 1: and couldn't find a way to win that third one.
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  Speaker 1: But at least it kept up the interest, because the
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  Speaker 1: last thing you want is to Beaumont to go off
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  Speaker 1: without a possibility of a triple crown.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly. Yeah. I mean I went there nine times to
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  Speaker 2: cover it, and I was out for nine and I'm thinking,
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  Speaker 2: this is never gonna happen. Uh. And finally then we
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  Speaker 2: had American Pharaoh finally break through after thirty seven years
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  Speaker 2: affirmed in seventy eighth and American Pharaoh in twenty fiveteen.
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  Speaker 1: Was that long?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was thirty seven years. It's the longest ever.
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  Speaker 2: It was twenty five years between citation and secretary of
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  Speaker 2: seventy three and then we had three and five years
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  Speaker 2: right by then the secretary at Seattle Salvon affirm right.
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  Speaker 1: All amazing horses and affirmed that's the first sports illustrated
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  Speaker 1: I ever got was Stevie Cothin sixteen years old on
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  Speaker 1: the cover, and he had all those epic races against
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  Speaker 1: Ali Dor I think, isn't that right?
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  Speaker 2: Correct? Ali Dahorr was second in all three triple gradarates.
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  Speaker 1: Well, tell you what that could actually work for you
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  Speaker 1: one of these days, theys you could I know one
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  Speaker 1: that I thought, I know, let's get to this race.
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  Speaker 2: Oh.
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  Speaker 1: I do want to about the owners though, because you know,
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  Speaker 1: I also lost some interest in the sport. I'll be honest,
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  Speaker 1: I lost interest in the sport when they suspended Bob Baffort.
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  Speaker 1: He's back, but I think he's only got one horse
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  Speaker 1: in this race tomorrow, right.
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  Speaker 2: He's got two now litmus Test was kind of a
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  Speaker 2: late entry. He's got Potente at litmus Test. They're both
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  Speaker 2: have had twenty to one. It better online dot Agi
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  Speaker 2: At the moment both.
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  Speaker 1: Are twenty two one. So we don't have a big
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  Speaker 1: horse in this race. So who owns running Gaatee?
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  Speaker 2: Mikeropoli is bite him in water. Saint John's helps Rick
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  Speaker 2: Patino put a Saint John's thing together. Guy from Queens
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  Speaker 2: who grew up going to Aquadum.
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  Speaker 1: Wow. So Rick Patino is part of because I know
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  Speaker 1: Rick is a big deal at Seratovi at Rick he
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  Speaker 1: is Bill Parcells, Mike Franceso, those guys. But the horses
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  Speaker 1: up in Saratoga. Okay. I got a buddy of mine
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  Speaker 1: and he told me, my buddy John, he said, shid
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  Speaker 1: the two horses put him anyway you want it, it's
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  Speaker 1: going to be a nine. Who else did he like
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  Speaker 1: and the oh, he liked one to a dean? Also
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  Speaker 1: he liked one to dean. Why not going up with
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  Speaker 1: thirty three to one and the puma going up at
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  Speaker 1: nine to one? But he doesn't know you're the star,
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  Speaker 1: Dick Jiardi. Give me the the three horses that people
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  Speaker 1: can box tomorrow and win some money.
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  Speaker 2: So I like the seven, the non bourbon, the Japanese
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  Speaker 2: horses actually brand in Kentucky, but he's raised in Japan.
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  Speaker 2: I like the sixth Commandment and the eighteen further Ado,
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  Speaker 2: and the order for me would be seven eighteen six
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  Speaker 2: in that order. But yeah, if you want to box
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  Speaker 2: them up, that's fine too.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So say it again now quickly, yep.
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  Speaker 2: Seven to non bourbon, eighteen further Ado and six Commandment.
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  Speaker 1: Seven eighteen and six. You know the Super Bowl, for example,
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  Speaker 1: you get to bet like nine thousand other bets outside
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  Speaker 1: the line and the total and all of that stuff, right,
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  Speaker 1: Is there a lot of that with the Kentucky Derby
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  Speaker 1: and no right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. At bet online there's probably fifty prop bets. Everything
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  Speaker 2: about this one said winning distance over under a length
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  Speaker 2: and a half. I'm recommending betty over on that one.
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  Speaker 2: Here's one. Will Secretariat's record, which has stood since hineteen
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  Speaker 2: seventy three be ted or broken? Yes, it is fifteen
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  Speaker 2: to one. I would recommend to no bet nobody can
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  Speaker 2: break this record. It might stand forever. And here's a
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  Speaker 2: cool one. Baffort You mentioned him. Will a Bafford horse
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  Speaker 2: win the Oaks and then the Derby? He's got a
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  Speaker 2: nice worst name explorer in the Oaks tonight you get
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  Speaker 2: sixty six to one if Baffort can win the Oaks
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  Speaker 2: and the Derby at Bettleline.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I like that one. I like that one a lot.
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  Speaker 1: You would, all right, Dick all right, betonline dot ag
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  Speaker 1: and you and I will give this again in a
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  Speaker 1: couple of weeks as we get set for the Preakness.
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  Speaker 1: You know the best in the business, dick By, Like Miles,
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