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Speaker 1: Joining us now. Randy Moss from NBC Sports serves as

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Speaker 1: an analyst live from del Mar during NBC Sports eleven

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Speaker 1: and a half hours of Breeder Cup covers. They couldn't

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Speaker 1: just cut it off at eleven. They had to make

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Speaker 1: it eleven and a half. It all culminates with the

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Speaker 1: six million dollars Breeders Cup Classic on Saturday night at

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Speaker 1: eight Eastern on NBC and Peacock. First of all, you're

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Speaker 1: in paradise in del Mar, and you get to explain

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Speaker 1: del Mar to those who will never be able to

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Speaker 1: get there and can live vicariously through you. You just

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Speaker 1: described it very succinctly, paradise. I've always told friends of

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Speaker 1: mine that if money were no objects, this is where

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Speaker 1: I would live. But unfortunately, because it is so nice,

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Speaker 1: money is an object. But it's I can't think of

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Speaker 1: a better place to spend spend a week. Give me

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Speaker 1: the best biggest storyline going into the Breeders Cup, probably

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Speaker 1: two of them. The Breeders Cup Class Sick is always

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Speaker 1: the big storyline because it's the it's the grand finale,

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Speaker 1: it's the richest race. It's the one that's you know,

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Speaker 1: it gets all the marquis it's the sexiest race every year,

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Speaker 1: and this year it's it's really a fascinating race with

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Speaker 1: a lot of really good horses, good combination of the

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Speaker 1: fastest older horse in America against a really good group

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Speaker 1: of three year olds. Then there's the Bob Bafford thing,

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Speaker 1: which of course is always um, he's always front and center.

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Speaker 1: But now with all the stuff that's been going on

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Speaker 1: with Bob all year long, and he's racing his horses

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Speaker 1: at the breeder stuff and he's got some good ones,

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Speaker 1: and that's the three hundred pound guerrilla in the room

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Speaker 1: as well. Does his horse know that it cheated? The

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Speaker 1: horse is the victim in all this, Yeah, he really is.

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Speaker 1: I mean, people can say what they want about Bob

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Speaker 1: about it the carelessness and and you know, maybe not

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Speaker 1: having all these eyes dotted and his tee's crossed when

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Speaker 1: it comes to the medication overridges and things like that.

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Speaker 1: But the horse had what he had in his system

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Speaker 1: for the Kentucky Derby had no impact at all on

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Speaker 1: the way to horse ran. That's that's a pretty common misconception.

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Speaker 1: Rules were broken. But twenty one pico grams of anything

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Speaker 1: twenty one trillions of a gram, especially of that substance

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Speaker 1: is not going to make any difference in the way

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Speaker 1: the horse ran, and he came back to prove that

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Speaker 1: in his most recent race he was just absolutely sensational.

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Speaker 1: So no, the horse is blissfully unaware. Luckily. Why is

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Speaker 1: this event the richest two days in racing? It started

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Speaker 1: back in nineteen eighty four as as a way to

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Speaker 1: sort of high up horse racings championships at the end

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Speaker 1: of the year. It always it always was a little

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Speaker 1: bit of a hectic kind of way to end the season,

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Speaker 1: with big races in New York, big races in California,

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Speaker 1: horses all spread out, maybe not necessarily running the best

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Speaker 1: against the best. And they figured out a funding mechanism

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Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty four where by breeders would would put

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Speaker 1: up the money for these rich races, which is why

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Speaker 1: it's called the Breeders Cup, And it was the richest

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Speaker 1: weekend of racing in the world at the time. It's

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Speaker 1: been surpassed now by Dubai and Saudi Arabia, but it's

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Speaker 1: still got a lot of cache worldwide among among the

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Speaker 1: top owners and trainers. Is horse racing still big money

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Speaker 1: around the world? Oh yeah, yeah, especially in the middle East,

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Speaker 1: in Japan and in certain you know, major races in

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Speaker 1: France and England, there's there's a lot of big money

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Speaker 1: at stake. Yeah, why so big so important in the

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Speaker 1: Middle East? I think because the rulers of those countries,

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Speaker 1: like Dubai, for example, Shaik Muhammad, who's been a very

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Speaker 1: controversial figure himself and his entire family, have sort of

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Speaker 1: had the feeling that horse that Arabian race horses were

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Speaker 1: sort of the progenitors of the Thoroughbred breed, which is true,

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Speaker 1: and they've embraced thoroughbred racing and spent amazing amounts of

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Speaker 1: money buying breeding racing horses. He's the leading owner at

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Speaker 1: the Breeders Cup historically. So they wanted to show the

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Speaker 1: world that they could race horses in Dubai, breed horses

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Speaker 1: Eastern thing got started. And now Saudi Arabia is joined

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Speaker 1: in as well. Do you find yourself randy defending horse

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Speaker 1: racing or promoting horse racing more? That's a good question.

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Speaker 1: Then lately it's it's been explaining horse racing, you know,

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Speaker 1: because when you have the like the Bob Baffort situation,

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Speaker 1: familiar with. It made headlines, It made headlines around the world,

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Speaker 1: and you really can't defend it because in a lot

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Speaker 1: of different aspects, medication wise and in the horse injury situation.

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Speaker 1: Back then, horse racing was really screwed up and needed

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Speaker 1: to get its ducks in a row. They've made progress

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Speaker 1: in both fronts, significant progress and the horse injury front.

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Speaker 1: They're starting to make progress on the medication front, but

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Speaker 1: there's still a long way to go. You can defend

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Speaker 1: it to a certain extent because people in the sport

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Speaker 1: of horse racing by and large, absolutely love these animals.

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Speaker 1: That coddle these animals. They're treated amazingly well. The dirty

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Speaker 1: little secret horse racing. The horses are treated better than

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Speaker 1: the people who take care of the horses. So in

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Speaker 1: a fense, you defend it, but there's some aspects of

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Speaker 1: it that are occasionally indefensible. You bet on horses, right,

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Speaker 1: oh yeah, do you bet on the horse, the joy

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Speaker 1: or the trainer. The horse occasionally influenced by the trainer,

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Speaker 1: seldom influenced by the jockey. Really The difference dan between

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Speaker 1: jockey A and jockey B when you get to these Breeders'

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Speaker 1: Cup races and you get to the Triple Crown races

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Speaker 1: is negligible. They're they're all so good at this level

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Speaker 1: that the difference between Joel Rosario and Javier Castellano and

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Speaker 1: John Velasquez is so minute that you're wasting your time

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Speaker 1: trying to parse the difference between one jockey or another.

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Speaker 1: Just assume that you're going to get a good ride

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Speaker 1: and bet on the horse. Betting on a favorite seems boring, right,

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Speaker 1: it is, Yeah, it is boring. Can you make any

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Speaker 1: money betting on a favorite? Well, it depends on your

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Speaker 1: definition your threshold of making money, right. I mean, you know,

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Speaker 1: you can bet on a two to one favorite and

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Speaker 1: it sounds like it's not sexy, but it's a hell

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Speaker 1: of a lot more than the bank pays if you

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Speaker 1: get it right. The problem is that favorites only win

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Speaker 1: about one third of the time, so if you're consistently

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Speaker 1: betting on the favorites, then in the long run, you're

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Speaker 1: gonna lose money. So the most entertaining way if you

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Speaker 1: want to bet on a favorite is to hook him

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Speaker 1: up with other horses in all of these so called

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Speaker 1: exotic bets now that are the most popular bets in

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Speaker 1: thirdbred racing and in the Breeders Cup. There's a million

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Speaker 1: of them, and you play exactas you can. You can

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Speaker 1: bet the favorite if you think he's gonna win, with

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Speaker 1: a long shot to finish second. You can bet on

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Speaker 1: the trifecta, the first three finishers, the super perfecta, the

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Speaker 1: first four finishers, and you can get a favorite that wins,

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Speaker 1: and then a payoffs that's really worthwhile. We have bad

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Speaker 1: beats in football the time. Have you ever liked you

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Speaker 1: have a bad beat in horse racing? Oh yeah, are

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Speaker 1: you kidding? Oh? Bad beats are the rule or in

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Speaker 1: the exception in horse racing, I've been I've been photoed

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Speaker 1: out of six figures. Oh oh, possible pay day. Oh yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: there's there's there's a bet called the pick six in

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Speaker 1: horse racing. That used to be you used to be

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Speaker 1: a lot more popular than it is now. You picked

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Speaker 1: the winners of six consecutive racist and you can invest

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Speaker 1: a lot of money. And I had partners and we

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Speaker 1: would all go in and this is back in the day,

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Speaker 1: this is twenty years ago. But you know we we

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Speaker 1: we've gotten to the last race. A couple of times

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Speaker 1: hit the first five, two, three hundred thousand dollars at

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Speaker 1: stake and then you lose a photo. You just you

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Speaker 1: just grin and bear it and uh and move on

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Speaker 1: to the next opportunity, right, good luck this weekend. Randy, Hey,

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Speaker 1: damn sure, thank you, dad. He's Randy Moss from NBC Sports.

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Speaker 1: He'll be an analyst from del Mar Live NBC Sports

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Speaker 1: eleven and a half hours of Breeder Cup coverage this weekend.

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Speaker 1: All culminates with the six million dollars Breeders Cup Classic

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Speaker 1: on Saturday night at eight Eastern on NBC and Peacock