Forever Young: Top Contender in the Iconic Breeders 8th Race

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00:00All right, the classic, the eighth race, who are you going with here?

00:04Yeah, we know a lot of these names.

00:06We know Fierceness, who has been a really good three-year-old all year long.

00:09Sierra Leone, who was the runner-up in the Kentucky Derby.

00:12I'm going to go to the number one Forever Young.

00:15I think there are a couple different songs I could sing to you on this one, Scott, if

00:19we wanted to say Forever Young, but I'll keep the folks out there.

00:22They probably heard me singing enough yesterday.

00:24You guys have had about 15 hours of Geno on the shows this weekend, so I think everyone's

00:29a little done with my voice, but Forever Young is, in my opinion, the horse in this race

00:35that has the highest upside.

00:37So if everybody were to run their best race, I think Forever Young is best, and he's 6-1.

00:44Probably will be more like 4-1, I think, when it's all said and done, and that's fine.

00:48That's where he should have been, but this is a horse who is 6-7, Scott.

00:51His only loss came when he was third in the Kentucky Derby, and the reason why he was

00:56third in the Derby and didn't win was because when they were closing, Sierra Leone was leaning

01:01in on him, was bumping him, was getting up all over him.

01:04So I think with a smoother trip, Forever Young, very, very interesting there, and that's the

01:09main event.

01:10What they've done this year, too, Scott, they put the Breeders' Cup Classic in the middle

01:13of the day, because that way it's more prime time for TV, and what it does is it starts

01:18the late wagers.

01:19So if you want to play like a late pick five, it actually starts with the Classic and goes

01:23races 8, 9, 10, 11, 12.

01:25If you play early races, they end with the Classic.

01:28So that's the really important race that you want to make sure you're right about on Saturday.

01:31Wow, it's interesting that two of the biggest races on Saturday is going with Japanese horses

01:37back-to-back there in the 7th and 8th grades.

01:40That's a great point, Scott, because they brought in 19 horses this year, the most they've

01:44ever brought from Japan.

01:45A lot of it has to do with the Japanese horse racing industry.

01:50They're just very, very smart.

01:52They're ahead of the game.

01:53They breed horses very sound and really well from the bottom up, and they've taken a couple

01:58American stallions and done great work with them out there.

02:01So a lot of these horses that are like Japanese horses or have been running in Japan, they're

02:06actually bred to run well in the U.S., and, you know, Forever Young is one of them who

02:12could be a winner in the Classic.