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- 1:18Speaker 1: for the one and forty second running of the Kentucky
- 1:22Speaker 1: Derby that will be tomorrow at Churchill Downs in Kentucky.
- 1:26Speaker 1: Here to help us understand the race and maybe help
- 1:29Speaker 1: us select the winner is Dan Zucker. He is the
- 1:32Speaker 1: co founder of predict form dot com. He's joining us
- 1:36Speaker 1: from blue Chip Farm in Wallkill, New York. And joining
- 1:40Speaker 1: me here in the studio is Gary Edel. He's a
- 1:42Speaker 1: Bloomberg staffer and a bit of a racing enthusiast and
- 1:45Speaker 1: a handicapping tournament player. Gentlemen, great to have you with
- 1:49Speaker 1: us here, Dan Zucker, I want you to begin by
- 1:51Speaker 1: just explaining for people that may not be horse race
- 1:54Speaker 1: racing of ficionados, twenty horses. That sounds like a lot
- 1:58Speaker 1: of horse flesh on the on the track. Yeah, sure,
- 2:03Speaker 1: as Tim and Gary, how are you, my friends? That's
- 2:08Speaker 1: the number that you get with the Kentucky Derby. It's
- 2:10Speaker 1: the it's the one race a year where you see
- 2:13Speaker 1: twenty horses and it it certainly does make for traffic problems.
- 2:17Speaker 1: You know, a lot of a lot of contact and
- 2:20Speaker 1: banging around throughout the race. We'll tell us about the horses,
- 2:23Speaker 1: because I know that you have some favorites, and I'm
- 2:25Speaker 1: wondering if you could tell us a little bit about
- 2:27Speaker 1: something called a pace figure and how that figures into
- 2:31Speaker 1: your calculations. Sure well, and I was gonna say, you know,
- 2:35Speaker 1: we maybe maybe before we dive into the pace figure.
- 2:37Speaker 1: I just found that, you know, when you mentioned the
- 2:39Speaker 1: twenty horses. Something that's really interesting this year, and Gary,
- 2:42Speaker 1: you probably noticed this is there are three stallions that
- 2:46Speaker 1: represent half the field. It's the three stack. Two stallions
- 2:50Speaker 1: each have three three offspring running. One stallion's name is
- 2:54Speaker 1: Uncle Moe, the other stallion's name is Tappit, and a
- 2:57Speaker 1: third stallion named giants Causeway has two suns as well
- 3:01Speaker 1: as a great grandson. Uh another stallion named as Candia.
- 3:06Speaker 1: His father is Giant's Causeway. So in essence, you have
- 3:08Speaker 1: three stallions representing nine horses, which is a really rare
- 3:11Speaker 1: thing in a in a race like this, So it's
- 3:14Speaker 1: kind of like it's all in the family, all right, Gary,
- 3:16Speaker 1: So tell us a little bit about how you approach
- 3:19Speaker 1: handicapping a race like the Derby, you know it, as
- 3:23Speaker 1: Dan has started off with, I like looking at the pace.
- 3:25Speaker 1: It's just like if you're running a track race, you
- 3:28Speaker 1: have everyone has different styles of running. You have some
- 3:30Speaker 1: track people, you have some runners that like to go
- 3:32Speaker 1: out to the lead, some people like to go a
- 3:34Speaker 1: new pack, some people like to just sit back and
- 3:37Speaker 1: let the speed go and just close on them. So
- 3:40Speaker 1: I like to really analyze the race looking at pace figures.
- 3:44Speaker 1: And I know one of the things that I love
- 3:45Speaker 1: about Dance product is he goes really deep into pace
- 3:49Speaker 1: figures and his specialty is identifying the E two. What's
- 3:54Speaker 1: the E two paste? Dan Sucker, what explain? How do
- 3:57Speaker 1: you what is a pace figure? Well, so, essentially like
- 4:04Speaker 1: in horse racing, horses are clothed at the quarter mile,
- 4:09Speaker 1: a half mile, the mile, and then at the end
- 4:12Speaker 1: of the race. And we evaluate races a race with generation,
- 4:16Speaker 1: and we look at a horse's speed throughout the race,
- 4:19Speaker 1: whether a horse is accelerating or decelerating. And grass races,
- 4:22Speaker 1: horses start slow and they wind up going much faster
- 4:25Speaker 1: at the end, whereas in dirt racing it's a game
- 4:28Speaker 1: of deceleration. The first quarter is always faster than the
- 4:31Speaker 1: second quarter, which is faster than the third quarter, which
- 4:34Speaker 1: is faster than the end of the race. So we
- 4:36Speaker 1: look at we have to look at pace in analyzing
- 4:39Speaker 1: the race to determine whether or not, you know, as
- 4:42Speaker 1: Gary mentioned, the horses up front will be able to
- 4:45Speaker 1: hold on, or whether it's likely that somebody from way
- 4:47Speaker 1: off the pace will come up at the very end.
- 4:50Speaker 1: So can you tell us the horses that you believe
- 4:52Speaker 1: are gard to perform the best based on this pace
- 4:55Speaker 1: figure analysis? Yeah, well, I mean I'll kind of give
- 4:59Speaker 1: you are are quick fifty foot level analysis and then
- 5:04Speaker 1: you know you can go to kind of Garry to
- 5:05Speaker 1: see where he sits. But from our perspective, um, there
- 5:08Speaker 1: are two main horses in here that look to be
- 5:11Speaker 1: better than the rest of the field. The first one
- 5:13Speaker 1: is nye Quist, who is the big favorite, um, you know,
- 5:16Speaker 1: undefeated seven for seven and he comes into the race
- 5:19Speaker 1: off a very strong last race. The second horse is
- 5:22Speaker 1: called Outwork, ironically enough, there both by Uncle Mo and
- 5:26Speaker 1: Uncle mos Stallion. Uncle Mo's father was Indian Charlie. The
- 5:30Speaker 1: big knock on Indian Charlie, which then filters down to
- 5:33Speaker 1: both of his sons, is that no Indian Charlie has
- 5:36Speaker 1: ever won a race going a mile and a quarter,
- 5:39Speaker 1: so it's something new for the family. The other horse
- 5:41Speaker 1: that we have would be outworked, and he's got Johnny
- 5:44Speaker 1: Laska is one of the benefest riders in the country,
- 5:46Speaker 1: comes from the best trainer in the country and Todd Fletcher,
- 5:49Speaker 1: and he's likely to sit just off the pace, beyond
- 5:52Speaker 1: the front. So if you're watching the race on television,
- 5:55Speaker 1: the horses that were projecting are gonna win are going
- 5:58Speaker 1: to be in the front of the pace most to
- 6:00Speaker 1: the race where they're gonna be fifty different camera angles
- 6:03Speaker 1: because it's gonna be broadcast on NBC of course, so
- 6:06Speaker 1: that'll be around five fifty Eastern time tomorrow, Gary. So,
- 6:11Speaker 1: based on the information that you've been able to assemble,
- 6:13Speaker 1: do you concur with what Dan Zucker is saying about
- 6:17Speaker 1: the pace of the race. Well, first off, I've been
- 6:19Speaker 1: in quite a few tournaments with Dan, and if Dan
- 6:22Speaker 1: says something, I'm listening because he knows this stuff. And
- 6:26Speaker 1: one of the things I find interesting in this race
- 6:29Speaker 1: is the lack of speed, and that's what's gonna make
- 6:31Speaker 1: this race very hard to handicap. In my opinion, last
- 6:34Speaker 1: year you had basically had the horses that came in first,
- 6:37Speaker 1: second and third running first, second and third around the
- 6:40Speaker 1: track the whole way. This year, we really don't have
- 6:43Speaker 1: that much speed, and that's gonna hinder a lot of
- 6:45Speaker 1: the horses coming from behind. I really like I'm going
- 6:49Speaker 1: with Dan with Outwork. I know Dave Papa Papa Dulas
- 6:53Speaker 1: from Bloomberg also was talking about at Work as a
- 6:56Speaker 1: really good value play. I'm gonna also use um exaggerator.
- 7:00Speaker 1: I think he has that same type of running style.
- 7:03Speaker 1: He's gonna just sit in midpack. Winner of the Santa
- 7:06Speaker 1: Anita Dert exactly. He's gonna sit midpack, and I think
- 7:10Speaker 1: when the upfront horses thought to die, he's gonna make
- 7:13Speaker 1: his move. Uh eight rated at eight to one. Out
- 7:18Speaker 1: Work at fifteen to one, a night quest, as you said,
- 7:20Speaker 1: the favorite three to one, and we gotta go with value.
- 7:23Speaker 1: So I'll probably be looking at out the out myself,
- 7:26Speaker 1: all right. Thanks very much, darry edel joining us a
- 7:29Speaker 1: Bloomberg staffer and enthusiast when it comes to handicapping and
- 7:32Speaker 1: the handicapped tournaments are thanks also to Dan Zucker Co
- 7:36Speaker 1: founder predict form dot com. Remember the Derby is tomorrow
- 7:41Speaker 1: in Churchill Downs. This is Bloomberg Radio. Coming up on
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