WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.960 --> 00:00:08.640 It's time for coffee and company, fueled by Thorntons on Sports Talk seven nine 2 00:00:08.720 --> 00:00:14.160 days now. Here's Nick Coffee. Well, it's not exactly Nick Coffee. 3 00:00:14.160 --> 00:00:17.120 I'm Scott Fitzgerald. Here is John Alden. What a beautiful day. We 4 00:00:17.160 --> 00:00:21.280 are high on top the grand stand, section three twenty two here at Churchill 5 00:00:21.399 --> 00:00:25.960 Town's directly underneath the historic Twins Fires. On our special Oaks Day coverage, 6 00:00:25.960 --> 00:00:30.000 we are three minutes away now from the ninth race of the day, that 7 00:00:30.120 --> 00:00:33.600 is the Grade two six hundred thousand dollars eight bells Steaks. As we mentioned, 8 00:00:33.640 --> 00:00:36.479 we're gonna go with the French connection here at least i am. I'm 9 00:00:36.479 --> 00:00:40.479 gonna go with the seven and the one, the seven being Gentemen pearls with 10 00:00:40.560 --> 00:00:46.560 Flavian Pratt aboard, also Impel Florent Jerux. This will go at seven furlongs 11 00:00:46.960 --> 00:00:50.960 again, three minutes to post. Is just a beautiful guy, just a 12 00:00:51.159 --> 00:00:55.000 gorgeous day. Jody Demmley's gonna try to join us coming up here after the 13 00:00:55.119 --> 00:00:58.039 race. He's down seeing some stuff. I'm feeling a slight breeze now, 14 00:00:58.119 --> 00:01:02.960 John even Jody said, it's it's a little warm today, a little sticky, 15 00:01:03.640 --> 00:01:07.319 folks kind of faning themselves. But we do expect much better weather tomorrow. 16 00:01:07.319 --> 00:01:08.560 I want you get into these evening hours tonight. I'm sure you feel 17 00:01:08.560 --> 00:01:11.760 a lot better. Amen, brother, Amen, and uh, but you 18 00:01:11.799 --> 00:01:17.120 know, John, you just can't speak enough when you when you are able 19 00:01:17.120 --> 00:01:21.239 to be in such a party like environment, and it's it's one like no 20 00:01:21.319 --> 00:01:23.719 weather. It's not like a Marty Gras, it's not like a spring break. 21 00:01:23.799 --> 00:01:27.640 Everybody's dressed up. You feel special. I think that's why everybody comes 22 00:01:27.640 --> 00:01:30.200 out here. It's even different than thunder over louisvill though we had a couple 23 00:01:30.239 --> 00:01:34.400 of weeks right right. I gotta admit, man, I mean I don't 24 00:01:34.400 --> 00:01:37.840 get that I don't get to dress up that often and and I like to 25 00:01:37.879 --> 00:01:42.239 do that. In fact, I was had shopping last week and I just 26 00:01:42.400 --> 00:01:46.239 enjoyed hat shopping. And I'm kind of I'm a hoodie kind of guy. 27 00:01:46.400 --> 00:01:49.000 I love my hoodies and my hockey jerseys. I could wear those every day 28 00:01:49.000 --> 00:01:53.359 for the end of time. But I do like to dress up and and 29 00:01:53.439 --> 00:01:55.560 every now and then, and you like to come out and you like to 30 00:01:55.640 --> 00:01:59.719 people watch, and there's something when you see these people dressed to the Nines. 31 00:02:00.319 --> 00:02:04.640 Sometimes you just see people casual, people like feeling special, and the 32 00:02:04.719 --> 00:02:07.959 Kentucky Derby makes you feel special. It's kind of like when you're flying you 33 00:02:07.959 --> 00:02:09.840 get up grady to first class, oh yeah, and you kind of go 34 00:02:09.879 --> 00:02:13.879 all right, cool, You're like Wayne's wild walking, showing everybody your backstage 35 00:02:13.919 --> 00:02:15.199 passes. Look at me, look at me, look at me. And 36 00:02:15.879 --> 00:02:19.199 it's a good feeling. I wouldn't want to do this all the time, 37 00:02:19.560 --> 00:02:22.360 but when you only do it once a year, I'm so blessed to be 38 00:02:22.400 --> 00:02:23.680 able to do that, and to be able to do it here. Like 39 00:02:23.719 --> 00:02:27.759 I mentioned earlier, it was thunder over Louisville, the top of the Ali 40 00:02:27.919 --> 00:02:30.360 Center, the NFL Draft last week, and now the Kentucky Derby and the 41 00:02:30.400 --> 00:02:35.039 Oaks. I mean, I could die tomorrow and be a happy man, 42 00:02:34.800 --> 00:02:38.240 and it's just my life is complete. The good Lord brought me to Louisville, 43 00:02:38.280 --> 00:02:40.560 Kentucky. I have no business being here. I had no business meeting 44 00:02:40.599 --> 00:02:45.400 my wife in San Diego, California. I had no business getting hired into 45 00:02:45.439 --> 00:02:46.800 media, and lo and behold, here we are. And there's not a 46 00:02:46.879 --> 00:02:51.599 day that doesn't go by that I don't appreciate every single thing that has happened 47 00:02:51.639 --> 00:02:54.240 to me and every single moment in my life to be able to experience something 48 00:02:54.319 --> 00:02:59.319 like this each and every year. So I certainly feel blessed, and again 49 00:02:59.360 --> 00:03:01.439 thank you everybody you made this happen for me today, to include yours truly. 50 00:03:01.759 --> 00:03:05.919 Back there at the studio, John Alden has been a tremendous help to 51 00:03:05.960 --> 00:03:07.840 me. Brother. It's never easy when you step in to fill in for 52 00:03:07.879 --> 00:03:10.439 somebody. Oh yeah, it's a different environment. I know you do this 53 00:03:10.479 --> 00:03:14.159 in the mornings. It's a different time slot, So I mean it's always 54 00:03:14.159 --> 00:03:15.759 an adjustment in some way, shape or form. Yeah, you're just a 55 00:03:15.800 --> 00:03:19.319 pro there, John, and I'm looking forward to doing some more work with 56 00:03:19.360 --> 00:03:23.599 you coming up here as we move forward. Just a testament to the great 57 00:03:23.599 --> 00:03:27.599 staff we have at iHeartRadio Louisville. Good good people there, that's for sure. 58 00:03:27.599 --> 00:03:30.000 All Right. We are coming up and I'm trying to see where they've 59 00:03:30.039 --> 00:03:34.439 got the advertisements on the big board, and I'm trying to see where that 60 00:03:34.479 --> 00:03:38.319 I can't exactly see the starting gate from the vantage point I am at as 61 00:03:38.319 --> 00:03:39.680 they're loading up the horses, it looks like the oh here we go. 62 00:03:39.759 --> 00:03:44.319 Okay, now they're getting ready to load the horses in. They're way off 63 00:03:44.400 --> 00:03:46.960 in the far turn, way down in that little shoot that they kick them 64 00:03:46.960 --> 00:03:49.879 out of there because we're only seven and a half furlongs. So again, 65 00:03:49.960 --> 00:03:53.439 this is the eight Bells, six hundred thousand dollars. Everybody knows the story, 66 00:03:53.479 --> 00:03:57.120 the tragic story behind eight bells, the Philly who of course passed away 67 00:03:57.159 --> 00:04:00.280 here at Churchill Downs. Loading the horses in and now as they go, 68 00:04:01.159 --> 00:04:05.520 and those starting gates are phenomenal too, when those horses get bucking around inside 69 00:04:05.520 --> 00:04:09.479 there, and then we'll go to the call to race and come back and 70 00:04:09.520 --> 00:04:12.960 hopefully Jody Demmling will work his way up here and it looks like it's a 71 00:04:13.000 --> 00:04:15.000 smooth load for these horses. Sometimes you'll get him and they'll buck around, 72 00:04:15.040 --> 00:04:18.759 and they'll kick around and they grab those horses right by the rump they're in 73 00:04:18.839 --> 00:04:21.360 there. Looks like they're all in the gates. Oh nope, we got 74 00:04:21.360 --> 00:04:26.160 one more John, Now we got the feisty one. It happens sometimes, 75 00:04:26.360 --> 00:04:30.759 right John's gonna go to the call, they get him in the gate and 76 00:04:30.959 --> 00:04:33.319 it looks like, well it's kind of like a jack in the box. 77 00:04:33.399 --> 00:04:39.000 Yeah, you never know. There you go batch and they're off and Helena's 78 00:04:39.000 --> 00:04:43.160 Forte breaks out in stride. Asternia with a goods start as well as the 79 00:04:43.199 --> 00:04:46.240 field races up the shoot that hats for the main track and us Sternia comes 80 00:04:46.240 --> 00:04:49.959 on through to take the lead. Alina's fortes right there second in our Harper 81 00:04:50.040 --> 00:04:55.519 Rose tugs up from the outside and takes over third. My main squeezes back 82 00:04:55.519 --> 00:04:58.839 into fourth in pelt with the inside fifth. Do Gooder is out in six 83 00:04:59.000 --> 00:05:01.800 Edimen Pearls is all the way back in seventh, alongside of a Comedy Eva 84 00:05:01.800 --> 00:05:05.839 who's eighth toward the rail. All things goes racing in ninth. Tanya Showers 85 00:05:05.920 --> 00:05:11.040 is second to last early and at the back is Lady Moscato, ten lengths 86 00:05:11.079 --> 00:05:14.759 off the lead with four furlongs to go, and they clicked off and opening 87 00:05:14.839 --> 00:05:18.360 quarter in twenty two and two, Asternia hits the fire turned run, blazing 88 00:05:18.399 --> 00:05:24.079 the way in front by length. Helena's Forte on the chasing second in hot 89 00:05:24.079 --> 00:05:28.680 pursuit, and my main Squeeze is coming on with a three wide challenge impels 90 00:05:28.759 --> 00:05:30.839 right there in behind from the back of the pack of comedy Eva. Denimen 91 00:05:30.879 --> 00:05:34.120 Pearls is coming on as well. Doo good or is there swinging wide as 92 00:05:34.160 --> 00:05:39.199 Tanya showers for the stretch drive. They're off the turn. Asternia's coming under 93 00:05:39.240 --> 00:05:43.920 pressure. Here's my main squeeze pouncing from the outside, My main squeeze up 94 00:05:43.920 --> 00:05:46.959 for the lead. With a furlong to go, Helena's Forte, Asternia fighting 95 00:05:46.959 --> 00:05:53.480 on Impell not today for Denimen Pearls final sixteenth. My main squeeze goes clear 96 00:05:53.519 --> 00:05:58.240 by two and a half. Impel's finishing with interest, but she's second best. 97 00:05:58.639 --> 00:06:03.040 My main squeeze the winner. Wow, Oh, there you have it 98 00:06:03.240 --> 00:06:05.920 again, John, know one of my favorites. At least I had him 99 00:06:05.959 --> 00:06:10.120 Bell, you had him be there, Bill and and and we did, 100 00:06:10.160 --> 00:06:14.560 we did. We were gonna go with Helena's Forte. We were gonna go 101 00:06:14.560 --> 00:06:18.000 with Helena's Forte. And it almost pulled it off there, almost almost, 102 00:06:18.000 --> 00:06:21.720 but couldn't come around. So there you have it. We'll get the payouts 103 00:06:21.720 --> 00:06:25.920 for you coming up as well. And of course my main squeeze written by 104 00:06:26.120 --> 00:06:32.000 Luis Saiez in those signature Windstar Farm silks. And you can't mistake WinStar Farm. 105 00:06:32.639 --> 00:06:35.399 Uh. And when you live here long enough and you follow the race 106 00:06:35.480 --> 00:06:40.040 game, you get to know these silks, you get to know. Uh's 107 00:06:40.079 --> 00:06:43.160 sort of the who the jockeys are. And even my son said to me 108 00:06:43.160 --> 00:06:46.079 today before I left the house. He he said, there's no real celebrity 109 00:06:46.240 --> 00:06:50.360 silks in the derby this year, and so to tell you that. But 110 00:06:50.639 --> 00:06:56.639 nonetheless my main squeeze going off your winner, Luis sias Moore, congratulations to 111 00:06:56.720 --> 00:07:00.000 him. Thought maybe Impelle could pull it off, but that's how this goes. 112 00:07:00.519 --> 00:07:02.480 And you know, we'll see, we'll see what else they can do. 113 00:07:02.639 --> 00:07:06.319 Coming up now in the tenth race, is we are going to have 114 00:07:06.959 --> 00:07:11.759 the fortieth running of the Edgewood for six hundred thousand dollars, That is at 115 00:07:11.839 --> 00:07:15.680 a mile in a sixteenth that is scheduled to be on the turf again for 116 00:07:15.879 --> 00:07:18.480 six hundred thousand dollars. We'll try us. It's hard to lever up to 117 00:07:18.519 --> 00:07:25.600 the tenth race already. Let's take a look at Boushu at number four. 118 00:07:25.800 --> 00:07:30.399 See if that one can pull it out. Hard to justify maybe taking second, 119 00:07:30.439 --> 00:07:32.720 of course, dancing in Dixie Mofox given your best long shot there the 120 00:07:32.800 --> 00:07:35.959 number five horse as well, well, let's think about that name there for 121 00:07:35.959 --> 00:07:40.480 a second though, Scott mo Fox, given one thing we love about the 122 00:07:40.560 --> 00:07:45.360 war is the same of the subliminal messaging right here in some of these names 123 00:07:45.399 --> 00:07:47.439 that that's a suspicious if you asked me right, Yeah, I get it. 124 00:07:47.480 --> 00:07:49.439 I didn't even catch that, dude. That was a good catch on 125 00:07:49.480 --> 00:07:54.720 your part. That was a great catch. Again, just a very sticky 126 00:07:54.800 --> 00:07:59.519 day here at Churchill Downs as we continue to work our way through and get 127 00:07:59.519 --> 00:08:03.120 things going in here. Os Jody Demmling's next to me. I was trying 128 00:08:03.120 --> 00:08:07.959 to get his schedule. Yeah, so Jody's on HS. Sorry, we're 129 00:08:07.959 --> 00:08:11.959 delving inside baseball, Jody's coordinating. We're all trying to make use of Jody 130 00:08:13.000 --> 00:08:16.000 here. So nonetheless, brother, we shall see what happens. But yeah, 131 00:08:16.000 --> 00:08:18.800 a little sticky. I see some rain clouds off to the south now 132 00:08:20.959 --> 00:08:24.639 of us here at Churchill Downs. For the most part though, it really 133 00:08:24.680 --> 00:08:26.199 the rain has not been bad. I mean, I'm looking down at that. 134 00:08:26.240 --> 00:08:30.439 It's that new area down there along the track that has sort of the 135 00:08:30.480 --> 00:08:35.080 lounge seating that you're starting to see in more and more football stadiums. And 136 00:08:35.399 --> 00:08:39.360 nobody's left there. Nobody's wearing the ponchos, so it doesn't look like it's 137 00:08:39.480 --> 00:08:43.519 rain. Track is still wet, I did hear Kevin Kirston talking with Tony 138 00:08:43.600 --> 00:08:48.679 Cruz earlier this morning talking about how this track drains very very well so and 139 00:08:48.759 --> 00:08:54.120 it looks like all predictions for the Kentucky Derby tomorrow could be a fast track. 140 00:08:54.480 --> 00:08:56.360 We're just getting you going our all day Oaks coverage here while our all 141 00:08:56.440 --> 00:09:00.600 day but our three hour Oaks coverage will have all day Derby coverage tomorrow, 142 00:09:00.799 --> 00:09:03.759 not on news Radio eight forty whas. And speaking of news Radio eight forty 143 00:09:03.799 --> 00:09:07.320 whs, I did want to remind folks John that tonight we're gonna have a 144 00:09:07.440 --> 00:09:13.240 very special pre Derby programming edition that is coming up. Joe Elliott is going 145 00:09:13.279 --> 00:09:16.399 to host the Running the Secretariat. Yeah, we're gonna run that thing in 146 00:09:16.440 --> 00:09:20.240 its entirety and one of the things I've been now it'll start at seven o'clock 147 00:09:20.279 --> 00:09:24.320 tonight. You want to tune into that. One of the things that I 148 00:09:24.480 --> 00:09:28.759 love doing this year, John, is our Derby memories, and that is 149 00:09:28.799 --> 00:09:33.000 a long standing tradition at news Radio eight forty whas. They were done by 150 00:09:33.080 --> 00:09:37.039 kvid Lepford. They were done by Paul Rodgers, and a boss asked if 151 00:09:37.080 --> 00:09:41.159 I would I would host some and update some and you know, when you 152 00:09:41.240 --> 00:09:46.679 do those, you obviously have to do research on the stories of the different 153 00:09:46.720 --> 00:09:50.720 Derby horses. And one of the ones I did research on obviously, I 154 00:09:50.720 --> 00:09:52.320 mean, everybody knows the story Secretariat, but there's a lot more that goes 155 00:09:52.360 --> 00:09:58.600 into it. And it was very interesting reading about that, learning about that, 156 00:09:58.639 --> 00:10:00.879 and as I mentioned to you off the when I ran into you in 157 00:10:00.879 --> 00:10:05.720 the studio this week, I revisited Secretary at the movie and one I'm a 158 00:10:05.720 --> 00:10:13.799 big John Malklevich fan, who is just awesome as secretariats trainer, So I 159 00:10:13.840 --> 00:10:16.240 was able to do that and go through those stories. We did one on 160 00:10:16.279 --> 00:10:18.799 Seattle Slow. We'll try to run maybe one or two of those here before 161 00:10:18.840 --> 00:10:20.399 we get off the air. But you know, like I said, there's 162 00:10:20.480 --> 00:10:26.519 just so many Derby Day stories, and Joe Elliott's gonna cover those for you 163 00:10:26.840 --> 00:10:30.919 coming up at seven o'clock tonight. It's a great way to really sort of 164 00:10:31.000 --> 00:10:33.399 kind of get you ready for Derby. And one of our favorite things to 165 00:10:33.440 --> 00:10:37.679 do in our house is we like to watch, you know, all the 166 00:10:37.720 --> 00:10:41.360 Derby reporting from the parties and such. And to be able to do that, 167 00:10:41.559 --> 00:10:45.840 as I was telling my wife, I might be able to sleep in 168 00:10:45.879 --> 00:10:48.000 it, believe it or not. Ironically, I might be able to sleep 169 00:10:48.080 --> 00:10:50.879 in tomorrow. Oh yeah, well, I'm thinking we go on the air 170 00:10:50.919 --> 00:10:54.840 at six, and typically I come down early. But because of everything we've 171 00:10:54.919 --> 00:11:01.159 done for Derby leading up to tomorrow, most of it's all already done, 172 00:11:01.440 --> 00:11:03.360 and because when you talk to Derby guests, it's hard to get a lot 173 00:11:03.399 --> 00:11:07.360 of them on Derby Day itself, especially in the morning. So most of 174 00:11:07.360 --> 00:11:09.200 that is done. I told my wife, I said, I may actually 175 00:11:09.240 --> 00:11:13.639 get to stay up and watch some of the the Derby party coverage. Now, 176 00:11:13.679 --> 00:11:16.759 Willie, if you remember will Clark used to go to the Barnstable Brown 177 00:11:16.799 --> 00:11:20.279 every year and he used to go visit with them and visit with those people 178 00:11:20.279 --> 00:11:24.879 out there. I don't know that I I'd be one to go to sort 179 00:11:24.879 --> 00:11:28.440 of those parties. Do you want to go see Joey Fatone from in Sync? 180 00:11:28.519 --> 00:11:31.519 I know he's a main stage, isn't he? He is? And 181 00:11:31.559 --> 00:11:33.960 I know Tom Brady's come in town before. I don't think he's going to 182 00:11:35.000 --> 00:11:37.120 be here this year, though I know Tom Brady guy from who plays Rip 183 00:11:37.399 --> 00:11:41.759 in Yellowstone, Nick mentioned he's going to be there this time too. Yellowstone 184 00:11:41.879 --> 00:11:46.159 yes, Yellowstone's a big favorite. Yellowstone is there was that party and the 185 00:11:46.200 --> 00:11:50.039 one party I always wanted to go to that I never had a chance. 186 00:11:50.080 --> 00:11:52.799 That he doesn't do it anymore. Is Bill Samuel's Derby party that he held 187 00:11:52.840 --> 00:11:56.480 done at Maker's Mark and Loretto, and never had the opportunity to go there. 188 00:11:56.519 --> 00:12:03.039 I know Hermitage had a party one year when Hoodie came here, Darius 189 00:12:03.080 --> 00:12:07.679 Rutger, and that takes me back. You were asking me if I ever 190 00:12:07.759 --> 00:12:09.960 run into a celebrity out in town by accident. I knew there was one. 191 00:12:11.039 --> 00:12:11.919 I was trying to think of it. But it wasn't out in town. 192 00:12:11.960 --> 00:12:16.600 It was here at the Kentucky Derby two years ago. Again will Clark 193 00:12:18.440 --> 00:12:20.799 gets Jeff Milby and I and he does, as usual, come with me. 194 00:12:22.679 --> 00:12:26.000 He grabs someone we know who works security, and this guy can get 195 00:12:26.080 --> 00:12:28.240 us wherever we want to go. That was dear President Trump was here, 196 00:12:30.120 --> 00:12:37.360 and it was Willie had said, Willy goes, come on, we're gonna 197 00:12:37.360 --> 00:12:39.120 go find President Trump. I go, w whati do you get an interview 198 00:12:39.200 --> 00:12:41.159 the guy? He goes, I don't care. I just get a picture. 199 00:12:41.159 --> 00:12:43.960 I don't care. It doesn't matter. So we walked all over Churchill 200 00:12:43.000 --> 00:12:46.720 Downs looking for we cut through what is the old Millionaire's role? I think 201 00:12:46.720 --> 00:12:50.799 they built it up down here. It's down in Turn one where we saw 202 00:12:50.039 --> 00:12:54.240 probably the most ginormous slab of raw shrimp you've ever seen in your life. 203 00:12:54.799 --> 00:12:58.000 And we're walking through, and as we're racing, because WILLI walks one hundred 204 00:12:58.000 --> 00:13:03.200 miles an hour, we're walking through and I know Scott looks like Terrius Rucker. 205 00:13:03.320 --> 00:13:05.320 I'm going that's him, that's him. And I stopped him on a 206 00:13:05.320 --> 00:13:09.440 whim and I had said, mister Rucker, can I get my picture with 207 00:13:09.480 --> 00:13:11.639 you? And he was so accommodating and so nice and gess of things. 208 00:13:11.720 --> 00:13:15.879 Like one thing Nick and I talked about earlier this week is you never know 209 00:13:15.919 --> 00:13:20.840 how people who you see as your heroes are going to act whenever you approach 210 00:13:20.879 --> 00:13:24.600 them sometimes and so sometimes it might be nerve racking if you don't know their 211 00:13:24.639 --> 00:13:28.639 personality or maybe you haven't heard good things about them, Like Nick mentioned Jerry 212 00:13:28.679 --> 00:13:31.720 Seinfeld. He loves the show Seinfeld, Yeah, but that he he can 213 00:13:31.799 --> 00:13:33.799 never speak to him because he's heard that he's not very nice to people when 214 00:13:33.799 --> 00:13:37.840 they approach him. That's right, that's exactly right, by the way, 215 00:13:37.879 --> 00:13:41.720 your payouts coming in on this race now, John, my main squeeze winning 216 00:13:41.720 --> 00:13:46.799 my main m Ane fifteen eighty four is what he paid in the upset to 217 00:13:46.919 --> 00:13:50.759 win, and Impel paid five forty two. Coming in second place. Is 218 00:13:50.759 --> 00:13:54.559 Sterna eight ninety two coming in to show the two dollars exactly with the eleven 219 00:13:54.600 --> 00:13:58.240 and one paid ninety eight forty if you had the one dollar double of the 220 00:13:58.320 --> 00:14:03.559 one and eleven and that was three hundred forty seven dollars and eighteen cents. 221 00:14:03.080 --> 00:14:07.679 And if you did play the two dollars exact again eleven and one ninety eight 222 00:14:09.120 --> 00:14:13.600 forty, So big payout there, that reasonable payout. It's beer money. 223 00:14:13.639 --> 00:14:16.240 We'll put it that way for your winners and some. I mean, if 224 00:14:16.279 --> 00:14:18.200 you have the all inclusive, you don't even need the beer money. You 225 00:14:18.240 --> 00:14:22.240 just put Wow. No, if you bet the fifty cent trifecta on the 226 00:14:22.279 --> 00:14:24.639 eleven, one and six, I got your four ninety three fifty three, 227 00:14:26.080 --> 00:14:28.120 four undred ninety don't get you a sandwich on the way home. The right 228 00:14:28.720 --> 00:14:31.399 get your sandwich over here in the turf club. I did, by the 229 00:14:31.440 --> 00:14:35.240 way, have one person approach me as we were sitting up here, and 230 00:14:35.639 --> 00:14:37.960 I'm not gonna say who it is, because he goes, you know, 231 00:14:39.000 --> 00:14:39.960 I can get you and ey where you want to go. Oh yeah, 232 00:14:39.960 --> 00:14:45.120 what what? And you my luck has been out here. When people say 233 00:14:45.159 --> 00:14:48.559 that they mean it. I mean they're not blowing smoke because if you call 234 00:14:48.600 --> 00:14:50.440 them out on it, they're gonna be I said, seriously. He goes, 235 00:14:50.519 --> 00:14:54.120 yeah, he said let's talk later. And I was like, oh, 236 00:14:54.279 --> 00:14:58.279 okay. That changes the game. And so because I'm debating whether tomorrow 237 00:14:58.279 --> 00:15:01.440 whether I'm gonna run home after the show and change and then come out here 238 00:15:03.720 --> 00:15:05.440 or just come out here in general. And I'm thinking that this guy can 239 00:15:05.480 --> 00:15:09.320 get me access to where I need to be, I might go check that 240 00:15:09.399 --> 00:15:11.279 out. But it is it does remain a sticky day. Now. The 241 00:15:11.279 --> 00:15:15.120 good thing the clouds are out. That's that's the good thing. The clouds 242 00:15:15.159 --> 00:15:18.159 are out. It has cooled it off a little bit. Every now and 243 00:15:18.200 --> 00:15:20.480 then we'll get that breeze that comes up here. And and but it is 244 00:15:20.519 --> 00:15:24.279 not deterring people away. It is a full house out here. I will 245 00:15:24.279 --> 00:15:28.399 be interested to see what kind of crowd all your main area. If you're 246 00:15:28.440 --> 00:15:31.879 watching on TV, John, A lot of people watch on TV and they 247 00:15:31.879 --> 00:15:35.000 see, well, the infield doesn't look that crowded, and then they kind 248 00:15:35.000 --> 00:15:37.919 of they kind of make the assumption that that, well, it must not 249 00:15:39.000 --> 00:15:41.919 be that populated. No, because what you're not seeing is beautiful Turn one 250 00:15:43.000 --> 00:15:46.960 and all the way around is I look down here through the grandstand and then 251 00:15:46.039 --> 00:15:50.399 back over to Central Avenue is packed, just packed. So what I think 252 00:15:50.440 --> 00:15:54.279 it'll go down is one of the record breaking crowds in history. Probably not, 253 00:15:56.080 --> 00:15:58.120 but I do think that they're gonna have a reputable crowd here. I 254 00:15:58.159 --> 00:16:03.200 think tomorrow's crowds gonna be huge. I think you're you're gonna have the one 255 00:16:03.279 --> 00:16:07.240 hundred and fiftieth run for the Roses. The weather's gonna be great. I 256 00:16:07.279 --> 00:16:11.519 think it's absolutely gonna beautiful. And Jody Demlin standing by, I'll tell you 257 00:16:11.559 --> 00:16:14.960 what, John, why don't we let's see, we're gonna take it. 258 00:16:14.960 --> 00:16:17.320 We're gonna take a quick break. Why don't we take our break right here? 259 00:16:17.399 --> 00:16:19.000 John, Let's do it. And when we come back. Jody Demlin 260 00:16:19.080 --> 00:16:22.159 standing by it the ready, we'll catch him and we'll talk to him. 261 00:16:22.159 --> 00:16:25.919 How's that perfect? We do We've got we've got the fortieth running of the 262 00:16:26.000 --> 00:16:30.000 Edgewood coming up, and that is for six hundred thousand dollars at a mile 263 00:16:30.000 --> 00:16:33.960 and a sixteenth on the turf. You're listening to special Oaks Day coverage on 264 00:16:33.279 --> 00:16:37.200 Sports Talk seven ninety. I'm Scott Fitzgerald. He's John Alden. We're back 265 00:16:37.240 --> 00:16:41.279 after the break here at Sports Talk seven ninety. All right, big voice 266 00:16:41.320 --> 00:16:45.200 guy, thank you, great choice of music, John Alden, high top 267 00:16:45.279 --> 00:16:48.240 the grand stand, Section three twenty two here at Churchill in Towns. We 268 00:16:48.519 --> 00:16:52.759 just we're getting ready to get started with the fortieth running of the edge Wood 269 00:16:52.080 --> 00:16:56.720 and that is of course for six hundred thousand dollars a mile and sixteenth on 270 00:16:56.759 --> 00:17:00.360 the turf. Joining me now the one and only Jody. I'm like, 271 00:17:00.799 --> 00:17:03.639 good afternoon to you, brother. How are you? How are you doing? 272 00:17:03.440 --> 00:17:07.920 I'm okay, now, aren't you? It is you know what it's 273 00:17:07.400 --> 00:17:11.880 It's not hot, It's just sticky. I mean it really is just sticky. 274 00:17:11.960 --> 00:17:15.480 And every time that it rains it gets worse, and I'm like, 275 00:17:17.400 --> 00:17:19.799 stop raining, what'd you please? I had to take my coat off and 276 00:17:21.920 --> 00:17:23.880 I will say the track is not good. I was gonna say real sloppy 277 00:17:25.119 --> 00:17:27.519 because they were talking Kevin Kurston was talking earlier this morning about how it drains 278 00:17:27.519 --> 00:17:30.880 real. Well, it does, it does. We're gonna have a sloppy 279 00:17:30.880 --> 00:17:33.279 oaks. Yes, we're gonna have a sloppy oak. So what they've got 280 00:17:33.279 --> 00:17:37.279 it sealed right now. So what that is for those out there listening, 281 00:17:37.359 --> 00:17:40.359 it is like packed down, Like if you went and walked across it right 282 00:17:40.400 --> 00:17:42.079 now, you be on roller skates with your with tennis shoes on. Really 283 00:17:42.119 --> 00:17:45.920 yeah, because it's it's packed down. They took those the floats is what 284 00:17:45.960 --> 00:17:49.839 they call them. And they took the floats and they and they rolled over 285 00:17:49.920 --> 00:17:53.720 them this morning. And what they do is when it gets to be where 286 00:17:53.759 --> 00:17:56.200 there's not a lot of water on top, which there's not a ton, 287 00:17:56.240 --> 00:18:00.400 but there's still enough, then they take their harrows and they open they open 288 00:18:00.480 --> 00:18:03.440 it back up and then the water drains down. Now, the water's draining 289 00:18:03.480 --> 00:18:06.359 good right now. It's just they've got it sealed up. You can see, 290 00:18:06.680 --> 00:18:08.079 Scott, we're watching there's somebody walking and he's being real key. You 291 00:18:08.119 --> 00:18:11.319 know, you're in real surfle walking across hockey. It's like you're walking ice. 292 00:18:11.359 --> 00:18:14.680 It's exactly, it's like you're walking on ice. It's like you're walking 293 00:18:14.720 --> 00:18:18.079 on ice. Jody, Jody Dammling joining us now and Jody looking at this 294 00:18:18.240 --> 00:18:21.279 race. This is the Edgewood Stakes. It is on the turf. How 295 00:18:21.319 --> 00:18:26.000 does the rain like this affect the turf? Probably really good on this turf, 296 00:18:26.079 --> 00:18:29.200 because i'd heard a lot of things yesterday about the turf being pretty hard 297 00:18:29.480 --> 00:18:32.119 because we hadn't had a ton of rain in the last few weeks. The 298 00:18:32.160 --> 00:18:34.119 turf was pretty hard. And I would imagine that the turf is listed as 299 00:18:34.200 --> 00:18:38.079 yielding, which is basically kind of it's not. I wouldn't say it's soft, 300 00:18:38.160 --> 00:18:41.519 but it is. There's got a there's some give in it. And 301 00:18:41.839 --> 00:18:45.599 so yeah, uh this this this track holds a ton of water. When 302 00:18:45.599 --> 00:18:48.279 they redid the turf course and then they redid it again, they actually built 303 00:18:48.319 --> 00:18:52.519 it up a little bit, so you're up a little higher uh than what 304 00:18:52.799 --> 00:18:56.720 uh than than what it used to be, and the water drains all pretty 305 00:18:56.759 --> 00:19:00.039 good in there. So we got Callisparis the Irish horse. And this, 306 00:19:00.079 --> 00:19:03.799 along with dynamic pricing the eight and the ten. Is there any truth to 307 00:19:03.839 --> 00:19:07.240 the fact that the European horses run better on turf than you know? It 308 00:19:07.759 --> 00:19:11.599 kind of depends on the race and the style and all that kind of stuff. 309 00:19:11.640 --> 00:19:15.920 But I am one who yes, I I always tend to gravitate towards 310 00:19:17.440 --> 00:19:19.839 looking to bet a European horse. I do everything. I'm a power when 311 00:19:19.839 --> 00:19:22.200 i'm when I'm when there's an European horse in the in the race, to 312 00:19:22.240 --> 00:19:25.839 bet that horse, I turn. I don't always do it on the turf. 313 00:19:25.880 --> 00:19:27.759 I don't always do it, but but that's the case. I will 314 00:19:27.759 --> 00:19:33.759 say this too. Saint Denis, which is not It looks like Saint Dennis 315 00:19:33.799 --> 00:19:36.359 for those of you in town, but it's Saint Denis. What was the 316 00:19:36.400 --> 00:19:40.759 horse three races ago? The Japanese horse? He ran really well and it's 317 00:19:40.799 --> 00:19:45.599 made me think about this race tomorrow because his stablemate t O Password is a 318 00:19:45.640 --> 00:19:49.480 horse. I think he's gonna finish twentieth. Yeah, but after watching that, 319 00:19:49.599 --> 00:19:52.920 this horse might be a little better than what I think and it could 320 00:19:53.240 --> 00:19:56.160 push the pace a little bit. I think that race today. As a 321 00:19:56.240 --> 00:19:59.880 serially owned fan, I was like, oh, I like this because the 322 00:20:00.079 --> 00:20:03.319 Japanese horse did it. But you're right. I mean the European horses they 323 00:20:03.400 --> 00:20:07.400 trained differently. A lot of them trained on turf all the time. Yep. 324 00:20:07.079 --> 00:20:10.200 And and it's just the that's just kind of the way it is, 325 00:20:10.359 --> 00:20:12.799 so you you tend to look at them a little harder when they're on turf. 326 00:20:12.880 --> 00:20:15.400 And you brought up the Japanese horses. I was down wandering around that 327 00:20:15.480 --> 00:20:19.839 new paddock area, and I know there is a strong Japanese contingent down there 328 00:20:21.039 --> 00:20:23.640 wandering around. Is Japan becoming a player in the horse racing game? Now? 329 00:20:23.880 --> 00:20:26.559 Oh? Yeah, big time? Yeah? They've dominated. You know, 330 00:20:26.599 --> 00:20:33.039 they won. They win the three Breeders Cup races two years ago, 331 00:20:33.319 --> 00:20:36.759 two of them last year. They've won but about every big race in the 332 00:20:36.799 --> 00:20:40.799 world over the last few years except for this one. Right, they did 333 00:20:40.880 --> 00:20:44.000 triple the Triple Crown except the Triple Crown, and they want to do it. 334 00:20:44.440 --> 00:20:47.880 What do you think with Forever Young Dermasoto Gak last year finished sixth. 335 00:20:48.359 --> 00:20:51.440 I like that horse a lot better than I like Forever Young. But again, 336 00:20:52.079 --> 00:20:55.400 he's undefeated, he has none no wrong. I just I thought I'd 337 00:20:55.480 --> 00:20:57.200 be wowed by him a little more watching him train in the mornings than I 338 00:20:57.359 --> 00:21:02.960 haven't been the last The last time I look, he had been bet down 339 00:21:03.119 --> 00:21:07.200 to uh six to one, So there's a lot of money coming in on 340 00:21:07.359 --> 00:21:11.279 him. Yeah, you know, and I think that's I think he will 341 00:21:11.359 --> 00:21:15.519 end up being the third choice, uh, in the in the derby, 342 00:21:15.559 --> 00:21:21.240 and I fucked that all along. It's just really interesting that I'm one that 343 00:21:21.480 --> 00:21:25.119 I've I've backed those horses every time they come here a little bit all the 344 00:21:25.119 --> 00:21:27.480 way back to Ski Captain. Tony Cruz always gives me grief for Skia Captain. 345 00:21:29.079 --> 00:21:32.160 Uh because Ski Captain Actually Ski Captain ran seventh, so it was not 346 00:21:32.319 --> 00:21:36.680 that bad, right, But Uh, this horse, I'm not. I 347 00:21:37.039 --> 00:21:38.599 don't have him in my top three. I think I got him fifth. 348 00:21:38.880 --> 00:21:41.000 I think he'll run. Okay, how does that affect the horse? And 349 00:21:41.079 --> 00:21:44.440 it's one thing when a horse comes over from say Ireland, it's a much 350 00:21:44.440 --> 00:21:47.119 shorter flight. But this is coming all the way from Japan, halfway around 351 00:21:47.160 --> 00:21:49.640 the world. Well, they had to go to Chicago, and they there 352 00:21:49.720 --> 00:21:52.519 and then ban down here, you know, after the fact, or really 353 00:21:52.640 --> 00:21:55.480 or fly down here. I don't know how they they got, but they 354 00:21:55.640 --> 00:21:57.920 they were in quarantine there and then they're here in the quarantine bart it does 355 00:21:59.000 --> 00:22:02.759 affect them forever. Young's been here longer. Uh, he's been here about 356 00:22:02.759 --> 00:22:06.200 a week longer than any other Japanese horse that's been in the Derby. So 357 00:22:06.319 --> 00:22:08.720 he's been here a good amount of time. Well, let's talk Jody while 358 00:22:08.720 --> 00:22:11.759 we got here, because I know you got to get going here before this 359 00:22:11.920 --> 00:22:15.160 race starts. About the oaks coming up. Yeah, I like just FOI 360 00:22:15.319 --> 00:22:18.799 I uh, it's I think she is a I think she's sitting on a 361 00:22:18.880 --> 00:22:22.759 monster race after her last race was the one race to get her back into 362 00:22:23.720 --> 00:22:26.640 this year. I think she's sitting on a monster race. I think she 363 00:22:26.759 --> 00:22:30.480 has got a chance to run away with it here. Unfortunately, I think 364 00:22:30.519 --> 00:22:33.799 she's probably gonna be the favorite. Torpedo Anna is right there with her. 365 00:22:34.559 --> 00:22:37.000 You know, it's been a brad Cox, A good day for brad Cox 366 00:22:37.079 --> 00:22:41.880 here today. He's got three wins I believe in stakes, two wins in 367 00:22:41.920 --> 00:22:45.680 stakes races. Florence Dreu's got three in stakes races. And they will team 368 00:22:45.759 --> 00:22:48.400 up on Tarifa. Uh. And you know she was the morning line favorite 369 00:22:48.400 --> 00:22:52.880 at seven to two. Yeah, she's not she's not getting a lot of 370 00:22:52.920 --> 00:22:55.839 respect. I think the last time I looked, she was the fourth choice. 371 00:22:56.160 --> 00:22:59.359 Yeah, and so yeah, it's it's gonna be interesting to see. 372 00:22:59.599 --> 00:23:02.960 I kind of looking it into Champagne. A lot of her ownership group comes 373 00:23:02.960 --> 00:23:06.680 out of Mount Washington, Kentucky local ownership group there. Maybe he'll be a 374 00:23:06.759 --> 00:23:08.880 price, She'll be a price. She definitely will be a price. Waising 375 00:23:10.000 --> 00:23:15.079 means is a horse that's good on the backside if Leslie's Rose didn't have that 376 00:23:15.279 --> 00:23:18.119 fourteen spot with the way she wants to do things, and then kind of 377 00:23:18.200 --> 00:23:22.319 I think a little bit of a wise girl horse, let's say, is 378 00:23:22.400 --> 00:23:26.319 our pretty woman? And I think it's a lot of people saying, hey, 379 00:23:26.359 --> 00:23:30.119 honey, I'm betting this for you, you know. But I also 380 00:23:30.240 --> 00:23:33.599 think with Steve ask Music that he's talked highly of this horse and what she 381 00:23:33.680 --> 00:23:37.920 could do. But did whyatt pretty woman ran well on the sloppy tracks, 382 00:23:37.960 --> 00:23:41.839 didn't she? Yes, she had mistaken so she's done better any other horses. 383 00:23:41.880 --> 00:23:44.000 Half, So there's a handful of in the half. Yeah, Well, 384 00:23:44.119 --> 00:23:47.640 post time is five point fifty one looking forward to it. I don't 385 00:23:47.640 --> 00:23:51.039 know if the weather forecast has changed for tomorrow's Derby or not. I don't 386 00:23:51.079 --> 00:23:52.480 think it really has. I don't think it has. I think they're holding 387 00:23:52.519 --> 00:23:55.640 study. You think we'll have a fast track for tomorrow? Oh, I 388 00:23:56.079 --> 00:24:00.759 definitely think so as long as it doesn't as long as the weather right now, 389 00:24:00.880 --> 00:24:03.880 it's fifty percent chance over the courts of the next hour or so, 390 00:24:03.599 --> 00:24:08.720 and then what I've been looking at is there's really nothing until a slight chance 391 00:24:08.799 --> 00:24:12.559 of some storms in the afternoon tomorrow. So I think definitely most of the 392 00:24:12.640 --> 00:24:15.279 day will have a fast track. I would. I'd be surprised if they 393 00:24:15.319 --> 00:24:18.759 don't have it fast for the Derby. Do you think all right? Well? 394 00:24:18.839 --> 00:24:19.759 Yeah, looking at the crowd. I was talking with John. The 395 00:24:19.799 --> 00:24:23.440 first turn looks beautiful down now, and the grants to everywhere undercover's fall. 396 00:24:23.480 --> 00:24:26.720 The enfield's probably not as full because of the rain. You can't tell anymore, 397 00:24:27.000 --> 00:24:30.079 right, you can't. You can't tell anymore. Do you think we 398 00:24:30.240 --> 00:24:34.319 may see a bigger crowd tomorrow just because it is the one fiftieth? I 399 00:24:34.480 --> 00:24:38.000 do? I think the days of the one hundred and sixty or seven, 400 00:24:38.000 --> 00:24:41.319 whatever the record is, those days are over right because of all the buildings 401 00:24:41.400 --> 00:24:45.119 and things that they've got in the infield. You just can't pack people in 402 00:24:45.160 --> 00:24:47.799 there in the infield, right, But I think we're gonna see a really 403 00:24:47.839 --> 00:24:49.680 big crowd tomorrow, I really do. You know, it's interesting when you 404 00:24:49.720 --> 00:24:53.039 see the price points that a lot of people made comments about how much beer 405 00:24:53.119 --> 00:24:56.240 is or how much a drink is. Dude, I was at the NFL 406 00:24:56.319 --> 00:24:59.240 Draft last weekend. Beer was the same price there as it. Yeah, 407 00:24:59.240 --> 00:25:00.319 I oh, no, I know you're gonna get people that pay that in 408 00:25:00.359 --> 00:25:04.519 regard. I mean a crab roll at a crabrell at Fenway Park is thirty 409 00:25:04.599 --> 00:25:08.440 four dollars. You know, a hot dog get a baseball stadium. You 410 00:25:08.680 --> 00:25:12.920 losk at what they are. Yeah, they are expensive, and they won't 411 00:25:14.000 --> 00:25:17.519 probably be that expensive every day of the week, but I think they can 412 00:25:17.599 --> 00:25:22.599 do it on derby week and they're not expensive today because all these people it's 413 00:25:22.640 --> 00:25:26.799 all on their ticket because it's all inclusive and it's really cut down. It 414 00:25:26.920 --> 00:25:29.559 really has cut down on the lines. Yeah. And I was talking to 415 00:25:29.599 --> 00:25:32.759 one of the vendors, one of the guys that was was working one of 416 00:25:32.799 --> 00:25:34.079 the things, and he was like, he's like, I don't want to 417 00:25:34.079 --> 00:25:37.640 tell him it's kind of easy, but this is kind of easy for us 418 00:25:37.759 --> 00:25:40.839 because we just hand out food. We don't do anything else. Yeah, 419 00:25:40.839 --> 00:25:42.359 that's what I was telling John. It's nice for us as patrons because we 420 00:25:42.400 --> 00:25:45.039 don't have to wait in the line for the beer to be busier tomorrow. 421 00:25:45.119 --> 00:25:48.079 Well, Jody, I appreciate you always, brother. I know you got 422 00:25:48.119 --> 00:25:51.960 a roll. You're getting ready for this race, and we're lucky to have 423 00:25:52.079 --> 00:25:56.079 you with us and looking forward, hopefully we can connect tomorrow's We definitely will. 424 00:25:56.200 --> 00:25:57.359 Okay, all right, See if there he goes, ladies and gentlemen, 425 00:25:57.519 --> 00:26:02.400 Jony Demmling, you can follow him along and he's I'll be back talking 426 00:26:02.400 --> 00:26:04.279 to Louisville Sports before too long. But right now, my man, he's 427 00:26:04.319 --> 00:26:07.440 gonna grab his camera with the big lens on it. He's gonna take that 428 00:26:07.559 --> 00:26:11.359 thing down and he is all about the Derby. One of my favorite peeps 429 00:26:11.400 --> 00:26:15.359 to hang out with come Derby time. So there you heard it, John, 430 00:26:15.440 --> 00:26:18.359 I mean you heard Jody offered some good insight there. Yeah, I 431 00:26:18.440 --> 00:26:22.319 mean he is the Louisville horse racing expert if there ever was one. Yeah, 432 00:26:22.400 --> 00:26:26.759 I mean horse racing. The Cardinals. Jody is well connected, does 433 00:26:26.880 --> 00:26:30.559 great work over there at Holy Trinity and Saint Matthews as their athletic director. 434 00:26:32.039 --> 00:26:33.960 He does, he does it all. So and of course you remember back 435 00:26:34.000 --> 00:26:37.519 to the COVID years, Jody was probably the first person I knew that came 436 00:26:37.559 --> 00:26:41.200 down with COVID. That's right. That was a heck of a story people 437 00:26:41.279 --> 00:26:45.240 following along with his COVID battle in the hospital. But thankfully he was able 438 00:26:45.319 --> 00:26:48.880 to get through it. And it was as somebody who was just getting to 439 00:26:48.000 --> 00:26:51.839 working in the radio business and he was still a thigheart at the time. 440 00:26:52.319 --> 00:26:56.000 It was crazy to see him come away being healthy after all that, because 441 00:26:56.000 --> 00:26:59.440 I mean, yeah, it was a scary situation for him. It was 442 00:26:59.559 --> 00:27:03.359 very scared. And I remember I would always walk past Jody's desk just to 443 00:27:03.480 --> 00:27:07.559 kind of look at it, you know, on his desk he'd always had 444 00:27:07.599 --> 00:27:11.200 the Louisville Cardinals wrote down, and what was on your schedule is sometimes easier 445 00:27:11.200 --> 00:27:14.160 to look at Jody's desk than it was to look up a schedule. And 446 00:27:14.240 --> 00:27:17.799 I just remember Jody being out for so long and his last entries that were 447 00:27:17.880 --> 00:27:21.160 right before COVID. So uh, great to see the comeback by Jody. 448 00:27:21.200 --> 00:27:25.839 He's looking fantastic and he's just he's loving life as we all are out here 449 00:27:25.920 --> 00:27:30.960 at the track working here high top section three twenty two again underneath the historic 450 00:27:32.000 --> 00:27:36.440 Twin spires. And that's the only part John, the only the only and 451 00:27:36.480 --> 00:27:38.200 there's no negatives to this at all. But the only thing is I can't 452 00:27:38.200 --> 00:27:41.240 see the Twin spires when I sit up. Heh, yeah, I can't. 453 00:27:41.839 --> 00:27:47.519 That's part of the Derby experience. And but Jody's right, you can't 454 00:27:47.559 --> 00:27:49.279 get a read on the crowd anymore because it is all tense. And if 455 00:27:49.319 --> 00:27:52.559 you, if you do turn your turn on your TV and turn us up, 456 00:27:52.640 --> 00:27:56.640 turn them down, you'll be able to see all the tents in the 457 00:27:56.720 --> 00:27:59.960 infield and and just all the things for sale and the people milling around, 458 00:28:00.119 --> 00:28:03.200 and it doesn't stop them. One thing I did want to mention, because 459 00:28:03.200 --> 00:28:06.319 it's up on the big board now, is we're seventeen minutes to post here 460 00:28:06.799 --> 00:28:11.160 coming up again on race ten here at Churchill Down. It's the fortieth running 461 00:28:11.160 --> 00:28:15.960 of the edge Wood for six hundred thousand dollars it. Paul Miles took me 462 00:28:15.000 --> 00:28:18.160 down to the paddic area, the new Paddock, and like when I say 463 00:28:18.240 --> 00:28:22.640 took me down to the paddock, we went into the paddock and you'll see 464 00:28:22.640 --> 00:28:26.359 some of my pictures up on social media. Seven ninety Louisville. You can 465 00:28:26.400 --> 00:28:30.440 see it there. Just beautiful. I mean, when you stand in the 466 00:28:30.480 --> 00:28:33.640 middle of this thing. It is incredible. It is a colisseum fill or 467 00:28:33.720 --> 00:28:38.200 feel. You certainly are the center of attention. I cannot wait to see 468 00:28:38.240 --> 00:28:45.480 what this looks like on TV tomorrow. But when you see that paddic area 469 00:28:45.559 --> 00:28:48.599 for the first time and you see just the grandeur of it, I mean 470 00:28:48.680 --> 00:28:52.240 again, you get it right away. It's crystal clear what's going on here. 471 00:28:52.400 --> 00:28:56.559 So again, we're coming up on race ten. We'll probably take a 472 00:28:56.640 --> 00:29:00.799 quick break here before too long, kind of recharge our batteries. I ran 473 00:29:00.839 --> 00:29:04.920 into a guy here at Churchill Downs, and if you watch it, if 474 00:29:04.920 --> 00:29:08.799 you follow on social media at s fits underscore eight to forty whs, we 475 00:29:08.920 --> 00:29:12.079 posted a picture of him. We'll have my conversation with him, and then 476 00:29:12.200 --> 00:29:17.079 coming up as well. We'll probably do that conversation next hour. John coming 477 00:29:17.200 --> 00:29:21.240 up next though. I think we're gonna talk a little bourbon, because bourbon 478 00:29:21.359 --> 00:29:25.480 sounds really good, dude, And I keep trying to tell myself, I 479 00:29:25.519 --> 00:29:26.880 gotta get up and go to work tomorrow. So I usually Friday, I 480 00:29:26.920 --> 00:29:30.640 don't usually have anything to drink. But man, when you're at Churchill Downs 481 00:29:30.680 --> 00:29:34.119 and you smell that cigar, smoke keeps wafting up here, and you see 482 00:29:34.160 --> 00:29:37.759 that Woodford when you walk down below, you're like, oh my goodness, 483 00:29:37.920 --> 00:29:40.880 one day of the year, I just want a bourbon. We're gonna hear 484 00:29:40.920 --> 00:29:45.279 from one of the top bourbon officionados right here in Kentucky. Had a nice 485 00:29:45.319 --> 00:29:48.880 conversation with him, not talking about Eric Gregory, president of Distillers Association, 486 00:29:48.480 --> 00:29:52.279 not just about you know, bourbon and how to drink it, but the 487 00:29:52.319 --> 00:29:56.839 state of bourbon and believe it or not, the good work that they're doing 488 00:29:56.920 --> 00:30:00.680 in parts like West Louisville, the University of kent There's a lot going on 489 00:30:00.799 --> 00:30:04.799 with the bourbon industry right now. And plus we'll find out how the top 490 00:30:04.920 --> 00:30:08.079 dog when it comes to bourbon likes his bourbon as well. So I think 491 00:30:08.119 --> 00:30:11.039 what we'll do, John, Let's go ahead and take our break, and 492 00:30:11.079 --> 00:30:14.400 when we come back, we'll talk a little bit with Eric Gregory and we'll 493 00:30:14.440 --> 00:30:18.960 be ready to go come up in facts. Maybe we'll play it by here. 494 00:30:18.000 --> 00:30:19.960 We'll talk to the break because we're coming up on the race here. 495 00:30:21.039 --> 00:30:23.160 All right, let's take a break here. You're listening to special Oaks Day 496 00:30:23.319 --> 00:30:27.200 coverage on Sports Talk seven ninety. I'm Scott Fitzgerald. He is John Olim. 497 00:30:27.200 --> 00:30:32.359 We're back after this again on Sports Talk seven ninety Oh, great choice, 498 00:30:32.440 --> 00:30:34.240 great choice, John, Allen Scott Fitzgerald with you here. We are 499 00:30:34.319 --> 00:30:38.279 coming up seven minutes to go to race ten, that is the Edgewood Stakes. 500 00:30:38.279 --> 00:30:41.200 Before we go to the race, though, I had a chance to 501 00:30:41.240 --> 00:30:44.880 catch up with a very interesting gentlemen. You're gonna see more of them tomorrow 502 00:30:44.960 --> 00:30:47.799 as well. On the backside. Go ahead and roll that audio. John. 503 00:30:48.759 --> 00:30:52.279 Okay, that's my own And where do you hail from? I come 504 00:30:52.319 --> 00:30:56.400 from Denver, Colorado, and I was born in Aliso mehe girl, But 505 00:30:56.599 --> 00:31:00.240 I have moved to them that back in nineteen seventy seven, and then you 506 00:31:00.319 --> 00:31:04.359 know, I watched it being TV also you know and TV stuff. But 507 00:31:04.519 --> 00:31:07.640 now I say, you know what, someday I'm going to make it up 508 00:31:07.680 --> 00:31:11.039 that and I did. This is my second time. What was the first 509 00:31:11.079 --> 00:31:15.799 time? I left you? Last year? Wow? How long does it 510 00:31:15.839 --> 00:31:18.160 take this get up? This is incredible? Okay, I you know I 511 00:31:18.240 --> 00:31:22.440 come from Denver. I left the Tuesday ever to Mega yesterday because we want 512 00:31:22.480 --> 00:31:26.920 stopping everywhere, right, So so let me tell you how long does it 513 00:31:26.960 --> 00:31:30.279 take to put this outfit together? This is when I want to say this 514 00:31:30.400 --> 00:31:33.400 happen a couple of weeks. Okay, you know, because I take my 515 00:31:33.480 --> 00:31:37.680 type of thing. You know what do put on? You know right right? 516 00:31:37.839 --> 00:31:40.720 And we're gonna post this on our social media feeds so bocks can see 517 00:31:40.759 --> 00:31:44.000 what you look like these shoes? Brother, how long did those things put 518 00:31:44.079 --> 00:31:48.319 together? This h I do one to day to be sure, you know, 519 00:31:48.079 --> 00:31:52.599 you know the ideas to be sure I put it that right thing because 520 00:31:52.599 --> 00:31:55.799 I don't want to take it out of your Are you worried about the rain 521 00:31:55.920 --> 00:31:57.519 if it rains, or you're worried about snow coming off? I don't want 522 00:31:57.559 --> 00:32:00.400 to buy the rain even a day it went. I don't care because I 523 00:32:00.480 --> 00:32:07.400 got my my better head. So so now are you if you come back 524 00:32:07.440 --> 00:32:10.599 for Derby, are you gonna bring a new outfit with a different No, 525 00:32:15.240 --> 00:32:17.359 everybody, he's a popular guy. So tomorrow you're back for Derby with another 526 00:32:17.400 --> 00:32:22.240 out I want to I don't want to tell you I won. Yeah, 527 00:32:24.200 --> 00:32:27.839 he's a popular guy. Everybody is talking. Said, well, I'm gonna 528 00:32:27.880 --> 00:32:30.200 post this online. Folks can look and they need to look for And what 529 00:32:30.319 --> 00:32:37.079 do you go by again? You are the Mexican elvis, a mustache and 530 00:32:37.240 --> 00:32:42.240 the mustache, keen mustache. Oh, I got you. It's good to 531 00:32:42.279 --> 00:32:44.119 talk to you, Boston. I know you're probably he had to take a 532 00:32:44.160 --> 00:32:45.680 break. Folks, he's taking a picture. This is a popular guy. 533 00:32:45.759 --> 00:32:47.960 Well, happy Oaks to you, my friend. I'll let you get back 534 00:32:47.960 --> 00:32:52.319 together with the crowd. Yeah, that's thank you. I'm taking your diamond. 535 00:32:52.880 --> 00:32:54.880 You bet you're gonna let me see if you get who's your who's your 536 00:32:54.880 --> 00:32:59.720 oakshold, who's your Oaks horse too? Yeah, I don't know. I 537 00:33:00.319 --> 00:33:02.920 just picked the skinness and Douglas hooks. Okay, and as it I didn't 538 00:33:02.960 --> 00:33:07.240 last year in the win. Yeah, okay, so that's what I'm gonna 539 00:33:07.279 --> 00:33:09.279 do. I don't go for the you can run right. I'm gonna tell 540 00:33:09.279 --> 00:33:14.319 you something. Yeah, I wanna hopefully social media hear me. When you 541 00:33:14.480 --> 00:33:19.559 pick I'm a football ben yea. When you pick a football players, don't 542 00:33:19.599 --> 00:33:22.720 pick your foody faces. Okay, big ones, I learned that. I 543 00:33:22.839 --> 00:33:28.440 learned that from the Pits butter Steelers. I got you, Yeah, I 544 00:33:28.519 --> 00:33:31.559 got you. You're kind of looking like Rocky Glier All right, boss, 545 00:33:31.839 --> 00:33:35.759 I'm trying to get an interviewed here pushed out and I'm getting the interview. 546 00:33:35.839 --> 00:33:37.880 Go ahead, there, you take care of This is Mexican Elvis. He 547 00:33:38.079 --> 00:33:42.359 is. It's a popular guy. People are literally pushing me out of the 548 00:33:42.440 --> 00:33:45.279 way so they can get their picture with him. No, that's okay. 549 00:33:45.440 --> 00:33:46.759 Well I'm I'm gonna let you get to your photo. Ops. I want 550 00:33:46.759 --> 00:33:51.599 to get one picture with you, all right, Okay, I want you 551 00:33:51.680 --> 00:33:54.599 to buddle me. Yes, yes, well I'll tag you their boss. 552 00:33:55.079 --> 00:33:58.039 Hey, look, you got pictures. You gotta get buddy. You have 553 00:33:58.119 --> 00:34:00.400 a good time Mexican Elvis. A right, thank you, sir. All 554 00:34:00.480 --> 00:34:04.720 right, all right, Mexican Elvis, Ladies and gentlemen. He's on our 555 00:34:04.799 --> 00:34:08.199 social media feed plays. The first time that I've ever done an interview like 556 00:34:08.280 --> 00:34:13.239 this where I have been like people were showing me away, like they told 557 00:34:13.280 --> 00:34:15.519 me to stop doing my interview so they can get her picture with this guy. 558 00:34:16.079 --> 00:34:21.079 Well, get up on social media. I'm Scott Fitzgerald celebrating Oaks one 559 00:34:21.280 --> 00:34:24.760 fifty. You're having a great time on Sports Talk seven ninety All right, 560 00:34:24.880 --> 00:34:29.519 Yeah, that was a wild experience there, John Uh. And that was 561 00:34:30.360 --> 00:34:31.760 whenever you told me that we were going to be going to this interview with 562 00:34:31.920 --> 00:34:36.480 Mexican Elvis, I had no idea what to expect, and it to me, 563 00:34:36.639 --> 00:34:38.920 it just seemed like this guy just kind of appeared out of the ground 564 00:34:39.039 --> 00:34:43.960 like a gnome and found himself at the Kentucky Derby. Dude, I just 565 00:34:44.039 --> 00:34:47.639 posted his pictures to my social media as fits underscoring forty WHSLC does look like 566 00:34:47.719 --> 00:34:52.199 Rocky Blier and his kicks that he was wearing our amazing. But dude, 567 00:34:52.400 --> 00:34:55.679 people were pushing me out of the way as I was doing the interview. 568 00:34:55.760 --> 00:34:59.920 He was so popular. People were like move, and I'm like, I'm 569 00:35:00.199 --> 00:35:04.119 talking to him, and I kept trying to get out of his way, 570 00:35:04.320 --> 00:35:07.360 and he kept wanting to talk to me. And he started going on about 571 00:35:07.400 --> 00:35:12.760 something about the Denver Broncos and the Pittsburgh Steelers and it's just part of his 572 00:35:12.880 --> 00:35:16.440 popular character among NFL memes and that kind of thing. Yeah guy, that 573 00:35:16.559 --> 00:35:19.519 kind of thing who knows. Yeah, well, he told me. He 574 00:35:19.559 --> 00:35:22.079 says they feature him all the time on the jumbo tron when he goes to 575 00:35:22.159 --> 00:35:25.039 Denver, when he goes to Broncos games. Okay, John, we are 576 00:35:25.079 --> 00:35:29.599 two minutes away now from race number ten to fortieth running of the Edgeway the 577 00:35:29.639 --> 00:35:32.159 Grade two for six hundred thousand dollars. This is on the turf. They 578 00:35:32.159 --> 00:35:37.280 are loading up the horses just off to to my left. Again, it 579 00:35:37.400 --> 00:35:42.599 just got real humid on this end. I'm watching fans around me here starting 580 00:35:42.639 --> 00:35:45.920 to really fan themselves and running the thing like we're not used to the humidity 581 00:35:45.000 --> 00:35:49.119 yet around here. A couple of months to kind of get acclimated to that 582 00:35:49.199 --> 00:35:52.519 kind of stuff, right, And as you were running that interview, I 583 00:35:52.559 --> 00:35:53.920 felt myself. I mean, I just got off the treadmill this afternoon. 584 00:35:54.000 --> 00:35:58.159 I think I'm sweating as much as I was on the treadmill, and I 585 00:35:58.280 --> 00:36:00.320 was starting to wipe the sweat from my brock. I don't know where it's 586 00:36:00.360 --> 00:36:02.440 coming from, but it just came out all of a sudden. He got 587 00:36:02.480 --> 00:36:07.119 a little darker here and then now things are starting to lighten up. But 588 00:36:07.480 --> 00:36:10.039 I did notice fans were kind of fan of guys were taking their fidors all 589 00:36:10.159 --> 00:36:14.719 kind of waving themselves and fan it a little bit. Now as the horses 590 00:36:14.760 --> 00:36:17.559 are coming around the far turn here that what would be the final turn in 591 00:36:17.639 --> 00:36:22.639 the derby. They're still on the tur on the dirt. They're gonna make 592 00:36:22.679 --> 00:36:24.679 the crossover into the turf before they load in it says we're almost up on 593 00:36:24.719 --> 00:36:29.760 the race. So again, this is the Edgewood, the fortieth running of 594 00:36:29.760 --> 00:36:34.599 the Edgewood. I think I'm gonna go with Bushu the number four in this 595 00:36:34.760 --> 00:36:38.320 one to win, and that is with Martin Garcia aboard. And then we'll 596 00:36:38.400 --> 00:36:43.199 take the number nine hard to justify. I wonder if that has any relation 597 00:36:43.320 --> 00:36:46.880 to justify that has Flavian Pratt. We'll try to get another win for Flavan 598 00:36:46.960 --> 00:36:52.320 Pratt. And to your point, the long shot in that funny sounding name, 599 00:36:52.360 --> 00:36:54.960 and I can say it because it's legal, it's true, mo Fox 600 00:36:55.239 --> 00:36:58.719 give it. You almost feel bad for the guy who's gonna be calling the 601 00:36:58.800 --> 00:37:01.800 race. Oh my good miss, you might watch himself right right, So 602 00:37:02.079 --> 00:37:07.320 mofox given, we'll take that as the long shot that has Junior Alvarado on 603 00:37:07.519 --> 00:37:09.679 board as well. Now I think some of that humidity has passed away. 604 00:37:09.679 --> 00:37:13.599 I'm starting to feel a little bit more of a breeze now coming back here. 605 00:37:13.800 --> 00:37:15.559 So I think it's just something we're gonna be dealing with here today. 606 00:37:15.559 --> 00:37:20.360 Again, doesn't like it's holding people off, so they are now the horses 607 00:37:20.400 --> 00:37:23.599 are coming up on to the track and getting ready to cross over onto the 608 00:37:23.639 --> 00:37:29.920 turf, and great explanation by Jody about what it meant to seal a track. 609 00:37:30.000 --> 00:37:31.199 To be honest with you, I had never really dove into that. 610 00:37:31.280 --> 00:37:35.719 I thought when you seal the track, it's you seal it, and I 611 00:37:35.800 --> 00:37:38.639 didn't know. As Jody mentioned, it's kind of like walking on ice with 612 00:37:38.840 --> 00:37:43.679 regular shoes, like at a hockey game. And it's very interesting when you 613 00:37:43.760 --> 00:37:46.119 look down on that now and very It was great insight by Jody. Okay, 614 00:37:46.159 --> 00:37:50.679 the horses are coming across now. Uh, they are on the turf. 615 00:37:50.760 --> 00:37:53.039 It looks like we got the first horses going in now one and two 616 00:37:53.440 --> 00:37:57.960 are in or with the one horse is in the number two horses coming up. 617 00:37:58.840 --> 00:38:00.719 The horse is getting ready to man again. This is going to pay 618 00:38:00.760 --> 00:38:06.840 out five hundred one thousand dollars in this race. As they get ready to 619 00:38:06.920 --> 00:38:08.199 load him up, you might be safe. We'll try to go with the 620 00:38:08.320 --> 00:38:15.760 four to nine and the thirteen, the thirteen being dancing and Dixie. That 621 00:38:15.960 --> 00:38:22.119 is the number thirteen horse. That is Jose Ortiz on board as well coming 622 00:38:22.199 --> 00:38:23.679 up. By now we got how many more horses? We got two horses 623 00:38:23.760 --> 00:38:28.039 left to load, the eleven getting ready to go in. Now that of 624 00:38:28.119 --> 00:38:31.159 course, followed by the thirteen we just mentioned, and there's the thirteen. 625 00:38:31.239 --> 00:38:36.119 The gray colt into the gate as they close the door behind her in the 626 00:38:36.159 --> 00:38:45.400 gate and they're off and Maxi's Superfly wasting no time. She's sent right to 627 00:38:45.519 --> 00:38:49.519 the front, angles over toward the rail. Hard to justify is there and 628 00:38:49.679 --> 00:38:52.840 from the fire outside way to be Marie comes on to join them to make 629 00:38:52.880 --> 00:38:57.280 it three across the track, paining Polka dots in behind, races up to 630 00:38:57.360 --> 00:39:00.840 grab fourth. Bookou is now fifth the end of gold, angles over inside, 631 00:39:00.920 --> 00:39:05.599 tucks away to save ground, racing in six denemic pricing a little bit 632 00:39:05.679 --> 00:39:08.519 wider to that turn now finds the two path moving up from seventh. Mofox 633 00:39:08.559 --> 00:39:13.920 given his eighth scalable toward the inside is ninth, dancing in Dixie's back in 634 00:39:14.039 --> 00:39:17.719 tenth, too clear of Calli sped on the trailer to the backstretch run long 635 00:39:17.800 --> 00:39:23.679 shot Maxis Superfly throws down a quarter in twenty two and four heads down the 636 00:39:23.760 --> 00:39:28.840 back stretch run in control and right next to her is hard to justify. 637 00:39:29.039 --> 00:39:32.039 Second Maxi's Superfly gets away just a bit, opens up length and a half, 638 00:39:32.559 --> 00:39:37.639 hard to justify. Still second Pink polka dots toward the inside. Third 639 00:39:37.679 --> 00:39:40.480 good to be Marie on the far outside is fourth, Bookoo is right in 640 00:39:40.559 --> 00:39:45.480 the thick of things. Fifth dynamic pricing, three wide far turn, starting 641 00:39:45.480 --> 00:39:49.440 to edge forward from sixth band of gold and Mo Fox given. So they 642 00:39:49.519 --> 00:39:52.679 round the far turn. Maxi's Superfly still in front, round the turn, 643 00:39:53.079 --> 00:39:58.199 one length advantage heading for the quarter pole. Pink polka dots with a pocket 644 00:39:58.239 --> 00:40:01.079 trip needs to find a way through. Hard to justify set down wady by 645 00:40:01.119 --> 00:40:06.360 Marie comes wide off to turn. Bookoo switches outside for the final furlong, 646 00:40:06.440 --> 00:40:09.119 and dynamic pricing is coming, and so is Mo Fox giving. There's one 647 00:40:09.159 --> 00:40:13.880 for long to go and it's going to be way to be Maria in front 648 00:40:13.920 --> 00:40:16.360 of the gate pole. Hard to justify gives way dynamic pricing, Bookoo, 649 00:40:16.679 --> 00:40:21.840 Maxie's super Fly down the center mofox giving and way way out on the center 650 00:40:21.840 --> 00:40:27.000 of the course, dancing in Dixie. Here's the wire. Dynamic pricing got 651 00:40:27.159 --> 00:40:30.599 up in the nick up time. Wow, there you have it. Fans 652 00:40:30.639 --> 00:40:36.360 here pretty excited. Wow, what a race that was. And we thought 653 00:40:36.920 --> 00:40:39.480 we thought we see hard just hard to justify. Pull up Bookoo even making 654 00:40:39.519 --> 00:40:44.039 a run at it. As well. But a great race here on the 655 00:40:44.119 --> 00:40:50.199 turf that is the Edgewood Stakes for five hundred thousand dollars as they come across 656 00:40:50.719 --> 00:40:52.760 the line at the turf, and we'll see what the payouts are coming up 657 00:40:52.800 --> 00:40:55.000 on that, you know. And again, John, that's part of the 658 00:40:55.079 --> 00:41:00.800 fun here is that the when you hear the crowd just you know, roar 659 00:41:00.000 --> 00:41:05.519 and excite and everybody get on their feet when you had that one horse did 660 00:41:05.599 --> 00:41:08.000 nobody saw coming? Oh yeah, come around. And that's the beauty of 661 00:41:08.079 --> 00:41:13.360 this sport. And you know, this is definitely a sport where people feed 662 00:41:13.440 --> 00:41:15.320 off each other. I mean, let's be honest. I've been out at 663 00:41:15.360 --> 00:41:17.559 the track a couple of times where I've had guests in from out of town 664 00:41:17.639 --> 00:41:21.079 on a random weekday and we come out here and there's really nobody here. 665 00:41:21.599 --> 00:41:24.440 Doesn't carry the same excitement as when you have a lot of the folks out 666 00:41:24.480 --> 00:41:30.119 here that are cheering on these horses. Of course, and we'll wait to 667 00:41:30.159 --> 00:41:34.199 see what the payouts are here. As it looks like dynamic pricing. The 668 00:41:34.440 --> 00:41:39.320 Irish horse comes across Irad Ortiz Junior and jockey on that horse I read Ortiz 669 00:41:39.400 --> 00:41:44.000 Junior, no stranger, to success, that's for sure. In the horse 670 00:41:44.119 --> 00:41:47.400 racing world, so more excitement. The hats. Nobody's taking the hats off, 671 00:41:47.480 --> 00:41:51.960 that's for sure. Everybody's got the hats on. The mid gulps are 672 00:41:52.000 --> 00:41:57.679 flowing. I have seen so many mid juleps out here, people carrying min 673 00:41:57.800 --> 00:42:00.519 gelps around, and you know it. One thing that is constant is we 674 00:42:00.599 --> 00:42:04.679 hear people complaining all the time. Men jewlbs. They're terrible, they taste 675 00:42:04.760 --> 00:42:08.119 terrible. But you know what they sell every single year, and even at 676 00:42:08.159 --> 00:42:12.960 twenty two dollars, I mean, jewlps will sell a lot of folks taking 677 00:42:13.000 --> 00:42:16.280 home the lilies the lily drink as well. When I didn't know John looking 678 00:42:16.320 --> 00:42:20.920 at the lily glass. My daughter loves to collect the Derby glasses. It's 679 00:42:20.960 --> 00:42:22.960 the same logo every year. I didn't know that, yo, unlike the 680 00:42:23.039 --> 00:42:25.719 Derby glasses because my daughter, we have a ton of them at home in 681 00:42:25.800 --> 00:42:30.280 the cabinet, and my daughter's like pile them all up, and she, 682 00:42:30.440 --> 00:42:31.599 of course, I go, you know they have the same logo over you. 683 00:42:31.679 --> 00:42:35.000 She goes, no, they put different different names. I'm gonna go, 684 00:42:35.039 --> 00:42:38.599 okay, all right, So coming up looking at the next race, 685 00:42:38.639 --> 00:42:43.199 I cannot believe we are okay, well, we are getting close to the 686 00:42:43.280 --> 00:42:45.400 top of the AAR. We've got the Kentucky Oaks coming up, the granddaddy 687 00:42:45.440 --> 00:42:49.119 of them all. Let's go ahead and take a break, John. When 688 00:42:49.199 --> 00:42:51.599 we come back, we'll talk more about the Oaks and maybe talk a little 689 00:42:51.639 --> 00:42:54.159 bourbon as well. Back after this on Sports Talk seven ninety