Exciting Preview of the Breeders' Cup Classic at Del Mar

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00:00It's always exciting when the Breeders' Cup rolls around as we get ready to turn to November

00:08tomorrow.

00:09And it's time for the Breeders' Cup at Del Mar in SoCal-y Cal.

00:15And the Surf and Turf Special, it is a magnificent spot.

00:20It's time to hook up with our good friend.

00:22It's me, Gino B. Gino Bacola from the Daily Racing Forum to set us up with everything

00:28that's going down Friday and Saturday at Del Mar.

00:31Yeah, when we think about championship events in sports, right, we just saw the World Series.

00:36We think about baseball.

00:37We think about basketball, the NBA Finals, the Stanley Cup, and hockey, and football,

00:42the Super Bowl.

00:43That's what the Breeders' Cup is for horse racing.

00:45Two days, championship races, 14 races.

00:49So it's kind of like a track meet, Scott, where we have different divisions of horses.

00:53You have the young horses that are sprinters.

00:55You have the young horses that want to go a little bit longer.

00:58You'll have the girls, the best of the girls in the distaff.

01:02You'll have the boys in the classic, the best of the boys, the young in the juvenile.

01:05So it is really cool if you're a sports fan and you've ever been out to a track meet where

01:09you get to see everybody line up against the best and go at it.

01:13That's what the Breeders' Cup is.

01:14We have, it kind of reminds me a little bit of March Madness, too, because you have qualifying

01:19races all over the country and actually all over the world.

01:23So you really do get the best of the horses from the West versus the best from the East

01:27versus the best from the Midwest.

01:29It's really, really cool.

01:31And man, like, you know, Southern California, like the best place to go and play the ponies

01:35and have a party is at Del Mar.

01:37So that's what we're going to be doing over the next few days at Del Mar.

01:40You know what I did?

01:41Like, I've been to the Breeders' Cup several times, and I thought the best one I ever went

01:47to was at Churchill Downs.

01:49Like I thought, like, going to it there was like, it was better than going to the Kentucky

01:54Derby there.

01:56The bigger venues are so great on the big days like that.

02:00Churchill is so massive.

02:02Belmont's another place.

02:03They're doing a lot of renovations over there right now.

02:05Del Mar is kind of the opposite.

02:07It's unique.

02:08It's a small town, like, town area.

02:10There's not a lot of space kind of coming in and out.

02:12So it's going to be really crowded.

02:14And of course, it never rains in Southern California.

02:17It's actually supposed to rain on Saturday, which would be hilarious, because one of the

02:20main reasons they have the Breeders' Cup out on the West Coast so often is to stay away

02:24from the rain.

02:25So if you were to have it right now at this time of the year, anywhere else, you would

02:28have the possibility of there being rain if you were running in Saratoga or if you were

02:33running at Churchill Downs.

02:34So they try to keep it out West so that way it won't rain.

02:36And of course, this week, it might rain.

02:38Wait a minute, you're telling me that it's going to rain on Saturday all day?

02:43Like 70% on Saturday.

02:44Friday is not supposed to be quite yet, but I think a little early and late on Saturday.

02:49So fingers crossed, it's still Thursday right now.

02:52We have a couple days.

02:53But you know what, Scotty?

02:54If we're making money, they're not going to rain on my parade.

02:57They're not going to rain on my parade.

02:59I don't care what the weather is like as long as I'm making some Skrilla, as long as I'm

03:02making some cash.

03:03So let's get on into it.

03:04We have a couple plays for you for Friday and a couple plays for you for Saturday.

03:10Over on Friday, we're going to look at the juvenile fillies.

03:13So I was going to say something about a young girl.

03:17I felt like that would get me in trouble with you and me, Scotty.

03:20So the fillies, the young girls here, Lakara is the horse that I'm going to play.

03:25She's 12 to 1.

03:26What I like about her in this spot, Scott, she's versatile.

03:30She's a horse who's actually shown some speed, but she has shown that if she has a bad start,

03:34if something happens at the beginning, she can overcome that.

03:37And that's what I like with these young horses because they've shown me different dimensions.

03:42Horses that are just really fast, I get worried about playing them when they face better horses

03:47because everybody else has speed and they're just kind of used to beating up on horses

03:51that they're better than.

03:52In this juvenile fillies, we're going to go to Lakara because she has some versatility

03:57and this might be a horse that we could see in the Kentucky Oaks next year, Lakara at

04:0112 to 1.

04:02All right.

04:03What about the ninth race, the juvenile?

04:07Yeah.

04:08What's really fun about this one might be a Kentucky Derby horse next year.

04:11So these are the horses that we're watching.

04:13They're two years old right now and next year there'll be three trying to run in the

04:17Derby, in the Preakness, in the Belmont and in those races.

04:20I'm going to look to the number five, Jonathan's Way.

04:24It seems like there is a lot of early speed in this race.

04:27If you're looking at the pace projector on the graphic that we've shown, it says fast

04:31early pace up there.

04:32You can see the one, the five, the two, the four, the six, they're all in the mix.

04:37Jonathan's Way is really fast, but he also can sit off the pace.

04:41So that's the key for him in this race.

04:43What type of tactics will they choose?

04:45I think he went to the lead last time because that was what was best suited for that particular

04:49field.

04:50There wasn't as much speed in there.

04:51This race, they're going to be going a lot faster early.

04:54So I think he's going to take back.

04:56He's going to try to make one late run and he's going to get the jump on the number 10,

05:00Chancellor McPatrick.

05:01So four and a half to one on Jonathan's Way.

05:04That'll be our two plays for Friday.

05:07Let's go to Saturday and start with the turf race.

05:10Number seven.

05:11Yeah.

05:13I love this horse, Scott.

05:14This might be my favorite one all weekend long.

05:15I played Shari are last year because last year I was at Santa Anita in the mornings

05:20and I got an opportunity to watch these horses work out in the mornings.

05:24All of the days leading up to the Breeders' Cup, Shari are as a Japanese bred.

05:28So this is a horse who I hadn't seen all that much and I could not believe how he stood

05:33out to me on track.

05:35When you go to watch any good athlete warmup or exercise, it's like you're watching Steph

05:39Curry in the warmups.

05:40You know what's good when they're good.

05:43And when you watch good horses out on the track, they exude confidence like they look

05:48you in the eyes.

05:49They're trying to tell you like, I know what's up.

05:50I'm a horse.

05:51I'm here on the track.

05:52It's workout time later.

05:54I'm going to come run and I'm going to come win.

05:55I felt like that when you're watching Shari are he had trouble when he finished third

06:00in the Breeders' Cup turf last year.

06:02That was a way tougher race.

06:04I think he's coming into this race off of a nice prep to send him here 10 probably going

06:10to be about 10 to 1.

06:11When it's all said and done.

06:12I think he'll get bet.

06:13That's perfect for us.

06:14We like Shari are one of our best bets of the weekend at a really big price in the seventh.

06:17All right, the seventh race.

06:19The turf is the three horse Shari are at 10 to 1 right now.

06:23See if it changes by Saturday.

06:24All right, the classic the eighth race who you going with here?

06:29Yeah, we know a lot of these names.

06:31We know fierceness who has been a really good three-year-old all year long Sierra Leone

06:35who was the runner-up in the Kentucky Derby.

06:37I'm going to go to the number one forever young linger a couple different songs.

06:42I could sing to you on this one Scott if we wanted to say forever young, but I'll keep

06:46the folks out there.

06:47They probably heard me singing enough yesterday.

06:49You guys have had about 15 hours of Gino on the on the shows this weekend.

06:53So I think everyone's a little a little done with my voice, but forever young is in my

06:58opinion the horse in this race that has the highest upside.

07:02So if everybody were to run their best race, I think forever young is best and he's six

07:08to one probably will be more like four to one.

07:11I think when it's all said and done and that's fine.

07:12That's where he should have been.

07:14But this is a horse who is six for seven Scott his only loss came when he was third in the

07:18Kentucky Derby and the reason why he was third in the Derby and didn't win was because when

07:23they were closing Sierra Leone was leaning in on him was bumping him was getting up all

07:28over him.

07:29So I think with the smoother trip forever young very very interesting there and that's

07:34the main event what they've done this year to Scott.

07:36They put the Breeders Cup classic in the middle of the day because that way it's more primetime

07:40for TV and what it does is it starts the late wagers.

07:44So if you want to play like a late pick five it actually starts with the classic and goes

07:48races eight nine ten eleven twelve if you play early races they end with the classic.

07:53So that's the really important race that you want to make sure you're right about on Saturday.

07:57Well it's interesting that two of the biggest races on Saturday is going with Japanese horses

08:02back to back there in the seven great points because they brought in 19 horses this year

08:08the most they've ever brought from Japan.

08:10A lot of it has to do with the Japanese horse racing industry.

08:15They're just very very smart.

08:17They're ahead of the game.

08:18They breed horses very sound and really well from the bottom up and they've taken a couple

08:23American stallions and done great work with them out there.

08:26So a lot of these horses that are like Japanese horses or have been running in Japan they're

08:30actually bred to run well in the U.S. and you know Forever Young is one of them who

08:37could be a winner in the classic.

08:38All right let's go to the last one the ninth race the Philly and Mare turf full count Felicia.

08:46She is fast and there is no other speed in this race Scotty.

08:50She's going to do what they all want to do wave bye Felicia at twelve to one.

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