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Forever Young: Top Contender in the Iconic Breeders 8th Race
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10/31/2024
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All right, the classic, the eighth race, who are you going with here?
00:04
Yeah, we know a lot of these names.
00:06
We know Fierceness, who has been a really good three-year-old all year long.
00:09
Sierra Leone, who was the runner-up in the Kentucky Derby.
00:12
I'm going to go to the number one Forever Young.
00:15
I think there are a couple different songs I could sing to you on this one, Scott, if
00:19
we wanted to say Forever Young, but I'll keep the folks out there.
00:22
They probably heard me singing enough yesterday.
00:24
You guys have had about 15 hours of Geno on the shows this weekend, so I think everyone's
00:29
a little done with my voice, but Forever Young is, in my opinion, the horse in this race
00:35
that has the highest upside.
00:37
So if everybody were to run their best race, I think Forever Young is best, and he's 6-1.
00:44
Probably will be more like 4-1, I think, when it's all said and done, and that's fine.
00:48
That's where he should have been, but this is a horse who is 6-7, Scott.
00:51
His only loss came when he was third in the Kentucky Derby, and the reason why he was
00:56
third in the Derby and didn't win was because when they were closing, Sierra Leone was leaning
01:01
in on him, was bumping him, was getting up all over him.
01:04
So I think with a smoother trip, Forever Young, very, very interesting there, and that's the
01:09
main event.
01:10
What they've done this year, too, Scott, they put the Breeders' Cup Classic in the middle
01:13
of the day, because that way it's more prime time for TV, and what it does is it starts
01:18
the late wagers.
01:19
So if you want to play like a late pick five, it actually starts with the Classic and goes
01:23
races 8, 9, 10, 11, 12.
01:25
If you play early races, they end with the Classic.
01:28
So that's the really important race that you want to make sure you're right about on Saturday.
01:31
Wow, it's interesting that two of the biggest races on Saturday is going with Japanese horses
01:37
back-to-back there in the 7th and 8th grades.
01:40
That's a great point, Scott, because they brought in 19 horses this year, the most they've
01:44
ever brought from Japan.
01:45
A lot of it has to do with the Japanese horse racing industry.
01:50
They're just very, very smart.
01:52
They're ahead of the game.
01:53
They breed horses very sound and really well from the bottom up, and they've taken a couple
01:58
American stallions and done great work with them out there.
02:01
So a lot of these horses that are like Japanese horses or have been running in Japan, they're
02:06
actually bred to run well in the U.S., and, you know, Forever Young is one of them who
02:12
could be a winner in the Classic.
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