Thursday morning on the Derby Backstretch with Katie Petrunyak

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00:00It was a busy morning on the Churchill Downs backside.

00:04We spoke with trainers Kenny McPeak and Rodolphe Beze, as well as Tammy Bobo, the owner of

00:09Kentucky Derby contender Simplification.

00:14It's a solid wide open group.

00:16There's probably 10 horses, 12 horses that have legitimate chance.

00:20So yeah, it's wide open and it's going to be quite interesting.

00:24It's going to be the pace of the race and who has a great trip.

00:28Smile Happy's not done anything wrong.

00:30He always runs well.

00:31The other colt had an eventful trip or at least didn't handle the sand really well at

00:36Gulfstream, but this is a different surface and he's done really well.

00:40He's two in a row coming in here and we're going to let him run early, but it's an exciting

00:46time.

00:47Two really good horses with a real chance.

00:59So we ended up with Simplification as a result of Valerie Dumeric's call and they still have

01:07a piece of him.

01:08So that was the acquisition.

01:10We went out to their farm, they fold him there, they bred him there, and then we vetted him

01:15and purchased Simplification.

01:17So we just decided with working with the horse and having him around, the Dumeric's had him,

01:22we had it.

01:23We all felt strongly, you know, that the colt could have a lot of natural talent or ability,

01:27we hoped.

01:28And we've been blessed and here we are.

01:30So he's tough, you know, he's tough.

01:33His eye though, he has an eye that I've never really seen on many other horses.

01:38He has just such a neat eye.

01:40If you just watch this horse and you look at this horse, he's very observant.

01:43He stops, he observes.

01:45He's very intuitive to everything going on around him.

01:48He's very, very intelligent, very smart horse, likes his space.

01:52You know, he's not a pocket pony.

01:53He's not going to climb in your pocket and want you to love on him a ton, but he loves

01:57his carrots and his treats and he picks his people and I'd like to think we're pretty

02:03good friends.

02:04We get along great.

02:05And you know, horses are like humans.

02:07They pick their people and in this horse, we get along.

02:28Philly's doing really good.

02:30Actually, we noticed a big change since I say the past six weeks.

02:38Really mature a lot.

02:39She calmed down a lot.

02:41We didn't bring her here too early because she has a win on the track already, you know,

02:45and she has three runs on it.

02:46So we know she likes the track.

02:48So we got her ready at home in Kinland and then she came here last Sunday and since she's

02:53been training very well.

02:56Pleasantly surprised so far because she can be a little hot and, you know, she has her

03:02buddy the pony with her and she's been sucking up everything pretty good.

03:08So hopefully we got a good day today and then tomorrow we will walk and bring her over there

03:14and see.

03:15It's an amazing experience.

03:28These horses bring us so much and to have the opportunity to work with them or be with

03:31them is it's a blessing.

03:33We all just want to make it to the starting gate on Saturday for all these horses.

03:37They all deserve to be here and they're all deserving of this opportunity.

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