Bob Baffert's Strategy Shift: One Horse in Tomorrow's Derby

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00:00let me ask you a question though because we did get some breaking news overnight looks like

00:03baffert's only going with one horse uh in the uh in the derby tomorrow what do we know about that

00:10and what should we know about the horse that has been inserted in its place yeah so rodriguez is

00:16out which was uh definitely a speed risk because i wasn't going to play him so i'm not too sad

00:23about it but baeza's in which i'm very excited about there's a lot of hype around baeza so

00:28this horse kind of had a tough go of it being on the alternate entry in horse racing in order to

00:33make the derby field you have to get points and baeza ran second in the santa anita derby and

00:39because that race only had five horses the points awarded were reduced normally second place would

00:44have got him in but it didn't he was just short so now he's in and he is really interesting his

00:51mama was the mama for the 2023 kentucky derby winner and she also gave birth to 2024 kentucky derby

01:01contender doorknock who jason worth um mlb star owned and then didn't win but ended up winning

01:08the belmont so this mare is just cranking out superstars so it's cool to see another one in

01:12three years in a row

01:13you