WEBVTT - BONUS CONTENT - Dan Patrick Interviews NBC’s Randy Moss about Saturday’s Breeders Cup

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<v Speaker 1>This Friday and Saturday, the world's best thoroughbreds compete in

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<v Speaker 1>fourteen exhilarating races at the Breeders' Cup World Championships. Learn

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<v Speaker 1>more at Breeders Cup dot com. Slash twenty twenty catch

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<v Speaker 1>all the action live on NBC Sports as we welcome

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<v Speaker 1>in horse racing expert on loan from NBC Sports, Randy Moss. Randy,

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<v Speaker 1>thanks for joining us. How has the pandemic affected this

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<v Speaker 1>year's Breeders Cup? Oddly enough, Dan, The product on the field,

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<v Speaker 1>the product on the track is actually better because of

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<v Speaker 1>the pandemic. It's a pretty odd situation. But there were

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<v Speaker 1>a lot of racetracks around the country that had to

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<v Speaker 1>shut down in late spring at early summer, and the

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<v Speaker 1>horses had no place to run. And so now the

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<v Speaker 1>racetracks are going again, of course, but now we get

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<v Speaker 1>to November and the horses are fresher, They've they've got

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<v Speaker 1>more energy, they've run less often this year. They're healthier

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<v Speaker 1>in a way. Too bad, we won't have fans a

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<v Speaker 1>keen one, But the actual product on the field is

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<v Speaker 1>probably going to be better than the Breeder's Cup's ever had.

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<v Speaker 1>We you move the Breeder's Cup around. You know, Super

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<v Speaker 1>Bowl does this obviously, but you know, does lend us

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<v Speaker 1>the horse know that the surface is different? And you know,

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<v Speaker 1>how does that factor in with how a horse runs?

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<v Speaker 1>You know, Dan, that is one of the most overrated

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<v Speaker 1>factors in the sport of horse racing, and yet it's

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<v Speaker 1>the one that you hear about the most often, because

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<v Speaker 1>when a horse loses a race. Uh, oftentimes the owner

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<v Speaker 1>is going to go to the trainer and say, wait,

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<v Speaker 1>I thought my horse was gonna win. Why did my

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<v Speaker 1>horse get beat? And the horse doesn't talk, so the

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<v Speaker 1>trainer the jockey will make excuses. Uh, and typically the

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<v Speaker 1>excuse was he didn't like the track, you know, even

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<v Speaker 1>even though the other ten horses in the race had

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<v Speaker 1>no problem with it. You know, it's it's it's a

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<v Speaker 1>it's an excuse. That's the most overblown explanation for horses

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<v Speaker 1>losing that there isn't racing typically there's just not that

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<v Speaker 1>much of a difference between the racetrack surfaces as far

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<v Speaker 1>as the horses are concerned, be it at Santa Anita

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<v Speaker 1>or Churchill or Belmont or in this case King One

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<v Speaker 1>here in Lexing. What about creating a Grand Slam. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>the Triple Crown. Has there been any thought of adding

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<v Speaker 1>the Breeder's Cup to make it a Grand Slam? You

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<v Speaker 1>know when American Pharaoh in twenty fifteen swept the Triple

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<v Speaker 1>Crown and they fortunately kept him in training and didn't

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<v Speaker 1>whisk him off to stud like some of the other

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<v Speaker 1>top horses like Justify, and they ran him in the Breeders'

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<v Speaker 1>Cup Classic and he won. That was that was the moniker.

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<v Speaker 1>People started calling that the Grand Slam. Obviously he's the

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<v Speaker 1>only horse that's ever been able to pull that off.

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<v Speaker 1>But if we get another Triple Crown winner that is

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<v Speaker 1>then pointing for the Breeder's Cup, that's going to be

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<v Speaker 1>the phrase the Grand Slam. De And I don't want

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<v Speaker 1>any credit for this, Randy in the horse racing community.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, I mean, if you want to mention it,

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<v Speaker 1>you can, but look, I just I want to make

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<v Speaker 1>the sport better. This is just my gift to the sport. Then,

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<v Speaker 1>so it came from Dan Patrick. I'll make sure everybody

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<v Speaker 1>knows that's running the horse racing now, like what part

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<v Speaker 1>of the world is running horse racing. That's one of

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<v Speaker 1>the problems with horse racing. It's like boxing. Every state

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<v Speaker 1>has its own individual commission Every state has its own

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<v Speaker 1>individual rules. There is no league office in horse racing

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<v Speaker 1>in the United States to set the rules. There's no

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<v Speaker 1>Roger Goodell or there's no Baseball MLB commissioner. So it's

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<v Speaker 1>it's like a it's like a free for all. It's

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<v Speaker 1>like a wild West. Every state does what's best for

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<v Speaker 1>that particular state, and there's no unified push, whether it's

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<v Speaker 1>in marketing or race scheduling or anything like medication, anything

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<v Speaker 1>like that to sort of, you know, with the purpose

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<v Speaker 1>of propelling the sport forward. You know, in the NFL,

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<v Speaker 1>some team owners will maybe do vote for something that

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<v Speaker 1>might not be the best for them, but it's the

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<v Speaker 1>best for the NFL. No, you don't. You don't see

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<v Speaker 1>that in horse racing. Give us a couple of horses

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<v Speaker 1>that we should keep an eye on Friday and Saturday. Friday,

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<v Speaker 1>it's they called a Future Stars Friday. It's for the

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<v Speaker 1>two year olds, which are the younger horses. Horses don't

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<v Speaker 1>begin their racing careers until age two. They run in

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<v Speaker 1>the Triple Crown at age three, so these are like

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<v Speaker 1>the future Stars. And there is one horse in particular

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<v Speaker 1>running in the last race on Friday, who really looks

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<v Speaker 1>like he is the makings of a superstar. His name

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<v Speaker 1>is Jackie's Warrior. He's undefeated, He's won his races with

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<v Speaker 1>tremendous style. The big question about him and what makes

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<v Speaker 1>the race so interesting, is that his pedigree leans toward sprinting,

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<v Speaker 1>and he looks like a sprinter if you look at him.

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<v Speaker 1>Horses are the same as people in that respect. Sprinters

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<v Speaker 1>tend to be stockier and more muscled up than long

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<v Speaker 1>distance runners, and Jackie's Warrior definitely fits into stocky category.

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<v Speaker 1>But he's so good and so fast he probably I

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<v Speaker 1>can't run far enough to be a Kentucky Derby horse

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<v Speaker 1>next year, but it's going to be interesting to watch

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<v Speaker 1>him go a mile and a sixteenth for the first time.

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<v Speaker 1>In the Breeders Cup Juvenile and the Saturday there's a

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<v Speaker 1>lot to look forward to, but the coupde Gray is

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<v Speaker 1>always the Breeders Cup Classic, the last race on Saturday,

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<v Speaker 1>the richest horse race in North America. Well, I was

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<v Speaker 1>until the Pegasus in Miami popped up, but the Breeders

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<v Speaker 1>Cup is got The Classic has got one of the

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<v Speaker 1>strongest fields in it that we've seen in recent years.

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<v Speaker 1>You've got the Kentucky Derby winner of this year, authentic,

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<v Speaker 1>the Belmont winner of this year. Tis the law that

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<v Speaker 1>what should have been could have been the Kentucky Derby

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<v Speaker 1>winner last year maximum security, it was disqualified and some

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<v Speaker 1>other really good horses thrown into the mix. So that's

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<v Speaker 1>going to be a great way to cap off Breeders

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<v Speaker 1>Cup Saturday. Have you ever ridden one of these horses?

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<v Speaker 1>You know, I had a few experiences where at farms

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<v Speaker 1>and such, they decided to put me on the on

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<v Speaker 1>the back of a X racehorse, a Thoroughbred ex racehorse,

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<v Speaker 1>and let's just say it didn't end. Well, Well, you're

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<v Speaker 1>not I am not an equestrian, Dan, not by any

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<v Speaker 1>stretch of the imagination. Well you're a little too tall

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<v Speaker 1>for Johnkie. Well, I tell you what. Here's a here's

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<v Speaker 1>a just a quick story. We were at a farm,

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<v Speaker 1>your buddy Kenny Maine, myself, some other people and they

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<v Speaker 1>thought it would be fun. We were in a show

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<v Speaker 1>jumping ring to get on the horse's back and had

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<v Speaker 1>pictures taken. So they put the helmets on and get

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<v Speaker 1>on the horse's back. Ny Kenny was hamming it up,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, acting like he was whipping the horse when

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<v Speaker 1>he really wasn't and the horse was just standing there

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<v Speaker 1>like an old plow horse. And so they put me

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<v Speaker 1>on the horse's back and I thought, you know, this

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<v Speaker 1>is boring. Who wants to just sit here? And you know,

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<v Speaker 1>so I got on the horse's back and kind of

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<v Speaker 1>getting him a little bit with my heel, took off.

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<v Speaker 1>They I couldn't get him pulled up. He kept going

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<v Speaker 1>round and round the ring faster and faster. The owner

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<v Speaker 1>of the farm look he was having a heart attack

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<v Speaker 1>because I didn't have a helmet on. Finally I got

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<v Speaker 1>him pulled up, but that was my last time on

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<v Speaker 1>the back of a X thoroughbread. I hope you're well,

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<v Speaker 1>have fun on Friday and Saturday, and my best for

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<v Speaker 1>the crew there. Thanks for joining us, Randy, and thanks

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<v Speaker 1>for the Grand Slam idea. Dan appreciate it very much.

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<v Speaker 1>You're welkare NBC sports horse racing expert Randy Moss and

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<v Speaker 1>once again Friday and Saturday, world's best thoroughbreds competing in

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<v Speaker 1>fourteen exhilarating races at the Breeders Cup World Championship. It'll

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<v Speaker 1>be in Lexington, Kentucky. Learn more Breeders Cup dot com

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