5-15-26 - Mo Egger with Dick Jerardi

The Hall of Fame Horse Racing writer joined us on behalf of BetOnline.ag to discuss The Preakness.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Thirteen from five. This is ESPN fifteen thirty.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Moegger, Brenvan and Jones on Baseball is just a few
moments away. The breakness is tomorrow second leg of the
Triple Crown, and when the Triple Crown races happen, we
get on our guy, Dick Girardi the Hall of Fame
or the legend from bet online.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
Try to make us some money this week. Dicks.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
It's awesome to have you give me before we talk
about some of the specifics, give me one or two
general storylines you're paying attention to this weekend.

Speaker 3 (00:32):
Yeah, probably a couple. The fact that it's at Laurel
Park instead of Pimlico, as they're redoing the track in
Baltimore or Laurel for the people that don't know the geography,
it's spent twenty five miles south of Pimlico, which is
northwest Baltimore, about ten miles north of Washington, d C.
So that's one thing that'll be different. A couple of storylines. Obviously,
the fact that the every winner isn't here unfortunately her

(00:53):
a third time in five years. I mean, I can't
sure you'd both doing the best for our horse. No
problem with anything she said or doing. She did a
great job to get the Derby winner. Brittany Russell, local
trainer in Maryland, the top trainer in the state for
years as a horse named taj Mahaland here I'll start
from the one post undefeated and three starts all at Laurel,
so kind of a home track advantage a little bit.

(01:16):
We'll see how that plays out tomorrow. And Chad Brand
and Flabby and Pratt the best trainer jockey combination in
the sport. Right now, they're going to try for Chad's
third Freakness, and the way he's done it, he's got
iron honor in here. He runs in the Wood Memorial,
passes the Derby, and then comes back and wins the Prenus.
He's trying that again. So there are a couple of

(01:38):
the storylines as we get into it.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
All right, let's talk about the race itself. Handicap it
for me, steer me in a direction?

Speaker 3 (01:44):
Dick really complicated.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
No.

Speaker 3 (01:48):
When I was on air with you two weeks ago,
I was very confident in what I liked, and I
still think I was right, But explain why it didn't happen.
I like the non Bourbon, the Japanese horse, and at
the top of the stretch, I swear I thought he
was going to win by five likes. I mean, everything
that could have gone right did go right. He got
the dream trip, he was opening up a couple of lengths,

(02:09):
and as I'm watching it, I'm saying, wait a second,
he's easily in front. Now he's getting passed by a
maiden at the sixteenth pole, horses number one before as
Celia said it doesn't make any sense. Well, it turned
out the non Bourbon came out of the race with
a chip fracture and his knee needed surgery. I'm pretty
sure that's what happened to him at the end of
finished fifth. So that's my wanting excuse for the day.

(02:30):
But having having said all that, this race to me
is so hard. When I like to gamble, I want
to be able to see the race. You know, it's
like seeing a game like out at what's the matchup?
I'm having real trouble seeing like who's going to beware.
There's four or five horses, Chip, Hancho, taj Mahal, Napoleon Solo,

(02:54):
all of whom are going to be buying for the
league and I'm not sure any of them is going
to get clear. If one of them was, I would
I would like that horse, so a lot of pace.
Ocelly ran an incredible race of the Derby. I don't
know where that came from. When I watched the replays
on Monday or Tuesday morning after the draw, I was
blown away by how well he ran. I think you
make case he actually ran better than the horses that

(03:16):
finished first and second. But he was seventy to one
that day, and I'm always going to be like five
to one tomorrow and he still hasn't won a race.
I'm gonna pick up five to one that went the Freakness.
So I end this is along with the way of
saying I ended up on Iron Honor, not because I'm
in love with him. I'm in love with the connections.
This is a pattern that they've done. They've won with

(03:37):
this before, and he has races that are good enough
to win the Freakness. And I'm just hoping that they're
taking blinkers off, that the trainers figured out what the
missing card was because he didn't run particularly well with
the Wood Memorial after winning was first too, But and
my long shot and you'll love it. You love the horses.
The seventh horse to help the hell we did eat

(03:58):
my last long shot. And it's a wild it's a
wild story. So this this horse is damn or. Mother
had another other horse with the same trainer a few
years ago and they decided to name the worst Senior
Buskador and the owner said, the hell we did, you know, like,

(04:19):
what are you doing? You can't name the horse that,
And so that's how they came up with this name.
And Senior Buska Door, by the way, went on to
win almost thirteen million dollars. It won the Saudi Cup,
the richest verse of the world, with the same trainer,
so similar connections. I don't know if this horse is
quite ready to win the freaknance. I think he's got
a chance to be a pretty good horse, whether it's
tomorrow at seven o'clock or later. But yeah, the hell,

(04:42):
we gotta love the hell we did in general, Yeah, general.

Speaker 2 (04:45):
This is this is this is right up my alley.
The Great Dick Girardi with us thanks to bet online
dot ag uh. Check out bet online for the most
up to date odds and props on the one hundred
and fifty first running of the Preakness Stakes. Are there
any props you like?

Speaker 3 (05:00):
Yes, there's a prop. I love that. In fact, it's
my favorite bet tomorrow, more than actually betting a race.
So there's over under on the time. It's one minute
fifty five seconds. It's right up at the top of
the prop sheet. So these are particularly slow horses. This
isn't a great treatments. It wasn't a fast Derby either.
We have the slowest fire figure in history, and we

(05:20):
have a very slow racing surface. Yesterday, very unlike the
Churchill down surface, it was very fast. Remember I was
recommending under two oh two point five and it ended
up going under. We also have the configuration of Laura
Park is different than Pemlico. It's a mint and eat
track rather than mile circumference like Churchill. So the run
to the first turn is actually shorter, so they don't

(05:43):
have as much straightaway running and that's where horses run
their fastest, obviously gone around turns. So all that to
me mitigates to we're going over one fifty five. It's
my favorite bet. I can't bet enough. In fact, I'm
gott to find out what the limit is and I'm
betting betting it off.

Speaker 1 (05:58):
Now I'm convinced. Now, I'm convinced.

Speaker 2 (06:01):
That's our guy, Dick Girardi thanks to bet online dot
ag the most of today odds and props on the
one hundred and fifty first running of the Preakness Stakes.

Speaker 1 (06:10):
Love having you, Dick, Thanks so much.

Speaker 3 (06:13):
You gotta thank you both.

Speaker 1 (06:14):
All Right, we're going over one fifty five.

Speaker 2 (06:17):
We're gonna take nine, the nine horse Iron honor right
now with twenty one to four, and the hell we
did the seven. That's that's my that's my horse twenty
two to one at bet online dot Ag. Brendanman and
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