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Home » More Sports » Preakness Stakes 2022: Predictions, Value Odds and Race Preview

Preakness Stakes 2022: Predictions, Value Odds and Race Preview

BetUS Locker Room Staff by BetUS Locker Room Staff
May 13, 2022, 6:02pm ET
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Flash:

Welcome to the BetUS golf, horse racing and tennis channel. Now obviously we’ve just had the 148th Kentucky Derby. Then we go to the Preakness and they’ve had a… Steeped in history. It’s 147th Preakness, and it’s at Pimlico, which is Maryland, Baltimore. We’re not going to be seeing 20 runners. I can tell you now that there’s quite a few of the runners out of the Kentucky Derby, that will not be in this. But before I go to start delving into all of what we’re going to do to try and find you the winner, and we’re going to remind you that we are America’s favorite sports book. So we’d like to subscribe to this new channel, which will show all the majors, all the grand slams and all the legs of the Triple Crown, including the Breeders Cup at the end of the year.

Flash:

Also, we’d like you to ring the bell, which means we’ll notify you and you’ll never miss any content. Again, I’m going to introduce my expert, who was unbelievable in his accuracy of how the race would run, if you watched the Kentucky Derby video. And we’re going to try and go again in the Preakness. Brian Zipse, welcome sir, and congratulations on a great Derby, even if the majority of people around the world have not even heard of the winner, and certainly didn’t back it.

Brian Zipse:

Yeah. Rich Strike was a hard horse to figure for most, Flash, eighty to one winner. Second longest Kentucky Derby odds ever to win the race. And yeah, the pace setup made the race, Rich Strike a horse who’s probably improving. Just didn’t look to have the past performances good enough to win a race like the Kentucky Derby, but pace makes the race often. And in the 20 horse field, when they went that fast, historically fast, it set the race up for someone to close, and he’s a closer and he got the trip and things worked out perfectly. And that’s lightning in a bottle, if you will, if you want a horse to win at eighty to one.

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Flash:

Yeah, I mean he was… Again, we’ve got to give ourselves a little bit of credit here, because we actually gave out second, third and fourth on this show, because the winner wasn’t even in the race. When we did the videos, he wasn’t even in the race, he didn’t get in the race until the Friday. So, I mean, we can give ourselves a little bit of credit there and listen, he got up in the final strides, last three, four strides. So I think there’s all credit to Epicenter, all credit to Zandon and all credit to Simplification as well. But there were quite a few horses in that race who we may see at the Belmont, because there seems to be less and less horses coming out of the Derby into the Preakness. Do you think that they’ve got to have a little look at this calendar, because it seems to be, you don’t have a group one classic, group one classic, group one classic all in the space of six weeks.

Brian Zipse:

Yeah. And if you look at other nations, they don’t do it that way. They don’t put such a big series in such a short amount of time. The Triple Crown here in America is a sacred cow and people do not want to screw, want to mess with that five week period. They say, “Well, there’s been 13 horses that have won the Triple Crown in history, and it’s supposed to be hard.” Honestly. I don’t think it would be any easier, and it might only be tougher if the races were farther spread out. But clearly the Preakness is being hurt by the fact that it’s only two weeks after the Kentucky Derby. So few horses want to come back on such short rests nowadays. It was a little different back in the day, but nowadays they don’t want to come back after two weeks. And now, Flash, as you know, we’re not going to see the Kentucky Derby winner in the Preakness.

Flash:

No, we’re not. And we’re not going to see the third neither, because Zandon, well they say that he was pulled out yesterday, but this morning there were some people said that they’re going to make a decision on Saturday. So again, Zandon’s out as well. So first and third of the Kentucky Derby are out. Remember the Preakness is over half a Furlong shorter. So we’re going to be running over nine and a half furlongs in the Preakness, which is a mile and three sixteenths. Before we start going into the horses, we are going to have a classic winner in the race, and it’s going to be in the form of the filly Secret Oath.

Brian Zipse:

Yeah. Secret Oath was outstanding. She was my top pick in the Kentucky Oaks, and what looked like a really strong edition of the Kentucky Oaks. There were four fillies that were considered for favoritism in that race and Secret Oath was clearly best. She has an explosive turn of foot. She used it to get off the rail. She was swung out by her new rider, Luis Saez to quickly pounce on the lead as they came for home. Echo Zulu, the unbeaten champion was game, and it took a few strides for Secret Oath to get by her, but get buy her she did. She won impressively by two lengths, over a very good field. D. Wayne Lucas is her 86 year old trainer, who’s won so many big races over the years, and he’s never afraid to try the fillies against the boys. And for the second time in three races, we’ll see Secret Oath against the boys in the Preakness.

Flash:

Yeah. Okay. Well, let’s start off at the… We’re going to try and give you… We’re going to look at maybe top five contenders. We normally do six, but Zandon would’ve been the sixth member, but he’s out. So let’s start off with the horse number one, and that’s going to be Epicenter because of Epicenter will be favorite. Asmussen, obviously with about a furlong to go, must have been thinking that this year was his year. Joel Rosario did everything right. The horse did everything right, but this is sport. I mean, listen, I had my arms in the air with two furlongs to go, because I knew it would stay. I knew that it would put distance between himself and the rest. And then he gets done on the line. More than a contender, this horse.

Brian Zipse:

Yeah. More than a contender for sure. We talked about him as the horse to beat in the Kentucky Derby. He was the most consistent three year old going up into the Kentucky Derby all year, and he ran like it. I know he was your top pick Flash, and that was a good pick. He went off the favorite in the Kentucky Derby. He wasn’t a big, heavy favorite though. In the Preakness, I think it’s going to be a different story. Everything you said, he ran a very big race. Again, I’ll go back to that extremely, extremely fast pace. And of all the horses that finished up in the top 4, 5, 6, 7, Epicenter was the only one that was reasonably close. I think Joel Rosario did a great job, not going after the early leaders, sitting back just a little bit, but still he was close enough to that early hot pace where he had to be a little tired coming home. And that’s what ultimately got him beat by Rich Strike.

Flash:

Yeah, he took a tug basically, just after the two furlong. Once they swung in and he got it settled, he took a tug. He was probably sitting six or seven off of the pace. But listen, everything that we said about Epicenter, he ran… He was just basically a winner without actually being crowned a winner because I would dare to say, that’s probably his best race as well. Now we’re coming back half a furlong. So if we put the Derby back half a furlong, then he wins. He’s the winner. So now we’ve got to try and find a horse that’s going to be able to sit up with the pace because we may see fast pace again. And this is where I need your expertise, because when we look at the next run, it’s Secret Oath and she obviously is a filly. She’s a winner of the Kentucky Oaks, but she seemed to get better, the further as she went. Strong filly.

Brian Zipse:

She’s a very strong filly. I’m not sure, a mile three sixteenths? I’m not sold on Secret Oath being a mile and a quarter, or a mile and a half type of horse. But I think a mile three sixteenths suits her well. She’ll be a little bit off the pace. I think that pace is going to be key because yeah, Epicenter ran into a pace or was too close to an early pace that was too fast in the Kentucky Derby. I am certainly Flash, not projecting a pace like that here. There’s a couple of horses, Epicenter’s one of them, that like to be on or near the lead. The Kentucky Derby had 10 or 12 horses that wanted to be on or near the lead.

Flash:

Yeah. And that’s why we saw a different Epicenter. But Secret Oath was in a top class renewal of the Kentucky Oaks. The fillies seem to be, I think we see quite a few of them fillies and we’re going to have a look at clips later, but at four to one plus 400. D. Wayne Lucas, who’s like just an unbelieve… It’s historical, legends are thrown around, but I remember… Listen, these colors, I always used to love these colors of the green and white stripes. And the jockey Luis Saez, listen, he’s in the top five jockeys. So again, the filly is definitely going to be there or thereabouts, and be very popular on the day.

Flash:

Now the horse…, we’re going to go through the five horses in just how we think they are. And then we’re going to have a visual and then try and see how much we can break down, like we did last time, of taking some value early. Now the next one is Early Voting. Early Voting is a horse that’s not run since the Wood Memorial when it got collared close home by Mo Donegal. Now that means that this horse is fresh, again, is going to be at plus 400, which… It likes to be in front edge. What do you think with Chad Brown, Jose Ortiz, but a horse that I’m not quite sure it’s going to be up to the job in hand.

Brian Zipse:

Yeah. Early Voting is, I think, the horse that a lot of people are going to land on as the new horse in the Preakness. And by that, I mean, well Secret Oath wasn’t in the Kentucky Derby, but she was involved in that weekend, winning the Kentucky Oaks. Of course, Early Voting sat out that weekend, and didn’t have to run in the Kentucky Derby in that crazy pace, because he’s a speed horse. And now I think he just gets a much, much better setup. I think the whole key to Early Voting is how good he’s becoming. He’s only had three lifetime races, and as we talked about with some of the horses in the Derby, that’s a big deal, stepping up to this kind of class with such light experience in America, at least.

Brian Zipse:

But I think the difference between a 20 horse race in the Kentucky Derby, and maybe a nine or ten horse field, that we’ll likely see here in the Preakness, is huge for a horse with less experience. Then we come back to the pace, and as I see it right now, the only real viable candidates to be on the lead are Early Voting and Epicenter. If Epicenter is a little bit worn out, a little bit tired after the Kentucky Derby, if Epicenter is maybe not at a hundred percent, like he was in the Kentucky Derby, Early Voting becomes a real candidate. Especially if he’s moving forward now in what will be his fourth lifetime race.

Flash:

Yeah. Freshness is definitely going to be the advantage to Early Voting and its style of running. It’s going to be out. And remember, we’re only looking at maybe nine or 10 runners. So it doesn’t matter if you are drawn on maybe one or nine, if you, the six or seven horses don’t want to go forward, you’re going to get the run of the race. You’re going to be able to dictate fractions. But the problem I have with Early Voting is, he tries to stretch its field. I’m not sure that if he has a horse, just as a target, if he’s sitting behind him and presses a button and he goes, I don’t think he has that initial response to a challenger. And that’s where I believe that Secret Oath, and obviously Epicenter, are going to have his measure.

Flash:

Number four, would’ve been Zandon, but we’re going to go to Simplification. And it’s good that we say number four, because this horse was fourth in the Kentucky Derby. Ran a great race, and this is a horse Brian, that never really got into the race. It was always one of them that the only you heard about it, when it was staying on down the outside, didn’t trouble the leaders, but was stronger than the most. And Antonio Sano, Johnny Velasquez and a plus 500. You think you might get bigger on the day, but it’s probably one also, that can run up with the pace.

Brian Zipse:

Yeah. Simplification is an interesting horse, in that he’s done different things early in the race, and so many of his starts, you never know for sure where Simplification is going to be. The Kentucky Derby, he had just a little bit of traffic early, got a little bit squeezed, got a little bit shuffled back. Quickly, he dropped to 13th, no fault of his own. It’s just how, if you don’t break ahead of the other horses next to you, things like that happen quickly. Wasn’t the worst place in the world, because as we talked about, the pace was so hot and he ran a good race. He was wide most of the way, he rallied well, he never really looked like a winner, as you say, but it was a good performance all the way around. Now, all of a sudden, a lot less horses, a lot less traffic. He should show more early speed. I see Early Voting first early, I see Epicenter stalking him closely in second. Simplification could be third early. And that’s a big difference than 13th early that he was in the Kentucky Derby.

Flash:

Yeah, I remember earlier on in the season when he run against White Abarrio and Charge It, and he was right up in the van. And I’m wondering if that might be the tactic this time, is to jump him out, him and Early Voting maybe go head to head, or maybe just take a lead from Early Voting, Epicenter sits off. And the filly just sits there stalking. Because Simplification, it ran a strong race, and remember, this is half a furlong less. So it could afford to be up a little bit closer in the van.

Flash:

I want to have a little look now at some of the visuals because let’s have a little look at the Kentucky Derby, because remember this is half a furlong further, and we’re looking at it and we’re going, okay, Epicenter here, Rich Strike, Zandon and Simplification. Then we’ve got no Rich Strike, we’ve got no Zandon, but the inferred place here with the white hat is Epicenter. And we said about the turn of foot. He presses a button and he takes three lengths out of the field. And only the white cap and blue top of Zandon comes out chasing. There is no Zandon. Now, the bit I want you to look at here, Brian, is the race in the Preakness is over now.

Brian Zipse:

The race is over now, but I never look at it like that when handicapping a race, because I can see longer races where the pace is easier, and the horses on the front have a bigger advantage than actually they would in a shorter race. It really depends on how the race is run. Yeah. And saying that, Epicenter moved early, he was relatively close to that fast pace, so that makes his performance look even more impressive. How well he was able to hold on, the winner at a mile three sixteenths. Heck, the winner even closer to the wire than a mile three sixteenths. We’ll see how the Preakness is run, but it sure looks to set up better for Epicenter this time. I will add, I want to say this about Simplification, who you see in white there rallying for third now, soon to be fourth, I guess he’s fourth now.

Brian Zipse:

Interesting Jockey change, because you mentioned maybe they do show speed here in the Preakness. And, and I agree with you, Johnny Velasquez has been known… He’s a hall of fame rider who’s been known to use the speed of these horses in big races. And Simplification has shown the ability to do that. And with Johnny Velasquez now up with Jose Ortiz, going to Early Voting, who he’s been riding regularly. Even more reason to think that maybe Simplification joins the early party with Early Voting and Epicenter.

Flash:

Yeah. I mean, let me come in here because as you can see that Simplification’s in seventh, probably the second from your left. No horse, including the winner, has a better stride at the line than Simplification. So if you go early, if you watch this and look at it now, watch its head go down and it starts grabbing the ground. This is at the end of a harduous race. It’s strong at the line. So if you are then going to use up, maybe a bit more gas over a little bit shorter, this is a horse that is definitely going to come into the calculations.

Flash:

I don’t think it’s going to be Epicenter. Let get this clip off anyway, because we’ve seen this, this is efficient chip paper now, but I think we both feel as if Epicenter may hold the sway over them. Now let’s go and have a little look at the Kentucky Oaks, because the Kentucky Oaks, there’s a horse in here that I thought might have been unlucky, because it was down on the rail. It was the favorite, but Secret Oath comes spinning round and puts this to bed very, very quickly. And you can see the evidence of Secret Oath’s strength when we straighten up off of this bend. It catapults round, and just down there, it’s over. It’s over in a matter of seconds, soon as he straightens him up, balances, gone.

Brian Zipse:

Yeah. And I’m going to agree with you to a point, that Secret Oath got the better trip, or the better ride let’s say, than did Nest. Oh, I don’t think you can look at this race though, and say Nest was close to as good a horse to Secret Oath because yeah, she was down on the rail and she was waiting while Secret Oath made that move. But I attribute that to the talent of Secret Oath, rather than bad luck for Nest, if you look at the…

Flash:

Combination of jockey as well?.

Brian Zipse:

Yeah. I think that jockey helped. It was a jockey changed to Luis Saez and Luis Saez is a pretty aggressive rider. Secret Oath was not ridden nearly aggressively enough in… or lost before the Kentucky Oaks, when she came against males in the Arkansas Derby. So the fact that Luis Saez was on her, knew what to do, knew how to use her turn of foot, I think was big. Nest had clear running the entire stretch and didn’t really gain on Secret Oath. She was the best horse in the Kentucky Oaks.

Flash:

Yeah. But I think Secret Oath is actually, the distance she won, was a distance that she put basically on that move. Of that move, because she accelerated before the others, obviously it’s almost like shutting the door after the horse has bolted. It won the race for me on that turn, move, bang, gone. But we think this is a good group of fillies, don’t we? And she’s put daylight between them, not just because of her ability, not just because of the jockey, but look at her stride. Her stride is lengthening.

Brian Zipse:

Yeah. She’s a wonderful filly, and if you’ve watched her races, of course, as I have all year long, you saw this same type of move against the fillies, and against not these Kentucky Oaks fillies. She was absolutely dominating as she made a quick burst. Sometimes she had traffic, sometimes she was on the rail, sometimes she was on the outside but in all of them, she made a quick decisive burst of speed that carried her quickly to the lead. And in those races against the fillies that didn’t include Echo Zulu and Nest and Kathleen O., and so on that we saw in the Kentucky Oaks. She just kept rolling and she won those races by 8, 9, 10 lengths.

Brian Zipse:

In the Kentucky Oaks, we saw the same move. She wasn’t really allowed to do what she wanted to do so well in the Arkansas Derby. But that burst of speed, especially at a track like Pimlico. At Pimlico we talk about, well it favors the speed horses a little bit more, but if the pace is honest, and you make that quick burst on the turn, I think that’s the kind of move that often wins races like the Preakness. Will she be good enough to run down a horse like Epicenter? That remains to be seen of course, but she’s very interesting, trying the boys here again for the second time.

Flash:

Okay. Well, we’ve got two horses there that do have a turn of foot. I think Epicenter has an instant turn of foot that can put this race to bed. There’s going to be no surprises that I’m just with Epicenter all over, especially in a smaller field, over a shorter distance, or especially with a target. I believe that target, and we look at this by going back to the Wood Memorial, was Early Voting. Now Early Voting here is just basically on the front end. Can we have a little look at the clip of the Wood Memorial please? Okay. So we got right up front here, we got Early Voting and Mo Donegal just basically mows him down, but he’s dictated the race and he will probably look to dictate the race. Remember he is fresh and he stays.

Brian Zipse:

Yeah, you look at this race and you wonder how this horse is going to beat a horse like Epicenter, who you know will be close to the lead, and possibly Simplification as well. But on the other hand, there are variables here that I think we should consider. Chad Brown is a trainer that is… Well, he’s won an Eclipse Award here four times recently. So he’s probably America’s top trainer these days. And he brought a lightly raced horse like this, or maybe even less highly regarded than this, a few years ago, named Cloud Computing. And he beat the favorites, Always Dreaming and Classic Empire, in that Preakness because he kept improving.

Brian Zipse:

Yeah, Mo Donegal. Although it was a very close finish, Mo Donegal, I thought, was the best horse in the Wood Memorial. Because I think Early Voting never had to work that hard, was never seriously challenged on that lead until Mo Donegal came in the last few strides. So Early Voting, no doubt you’re right, Flash. She’ll need to improve to beat a horse like Epicenter in the Preakness. But on the other hand, he’s getting better with each start. And with only three starts under his belt, being a fresh horse, having rested through the Kentucky Derby. There’s every reason in the world to believe that Early Voting could be quite a bit better in the Preakness than he was in that pretty good Wood Memorial.

Flash:

Yeah. The one thing, I’m convinced that I’m going to see Early Voting go to the front and try and say, “Right, if there’s any chinks in the armor of the likes of Secret Oath, of the likes of Epicenter there, and Simplification we’re going to have…” They’re going to have to blow out them co webs very, very quickly because of the bounce factor. We know that the horses have all well, because they’re been entered in, but you don’t know until the stall’s open and you are into race mode. And the advantage of the freshness goes to the front runner who could dictate, but it could also set it up for one of the others to have a dream ride of just following him through, getting the lead, pressing the button, instant acceleration. And I think that Early Voting is going to actually set it up for Epicenter.

Flash:

Let’s have a little look at the odds and see if you see any value, because we’ve had a bit of movement because we’ve had the likes of Rich Strike come out. We’ve had the likes of Zandon come out. There was early talk in the week that Taiba was going to run. That was never happening. Okay. But we may see a lot more of them big names when we get to the Belmont, which is the third leg of the Triple Crown. Epicenter at plus 150, probably about where it should be? Brian?

Brian Zipse:

Yeah. Epicenter at plus 150 is probably where he should be, and I only see him going lower from there. I don’t know that I like him as a heavy favorite. I think there are scenarios where he could get beat, but right now, plus 150, that’s a good number for Epicenter.

Flash:

Yeah. I took 250 twice yesterday, and this being shown on the Friday. So I’m quite happy. Went a bit greedy as well, because I went looking for the 250 again this morning Brian, and it’s gone. It’s plus 150 right across the board. But yeah, I think 150 is fair enough. I don’t see it getting beat, I would nap. I think this is an absolute banker. What about…? You love maybe going a little bit, I’m a bit chalky because I like the best horse in the race, if I get beat, fair enough, that sport. But what about the likes of Creative Minister? Because that’s a plus 500, and remember there’s no Zandon now. So a lot of these horses, they could retract in their price.

Brian Zipse:

Yeah. I’m struck, when I’m looking at these ads, I’m struck by the fact that Early Voting, Secret Oath are plus 400, and then you drop only 100 more only to plus 500 for Simplification and Creative Minister, where you go up only that a little amount, because I see it as a clear favorite, Epicenter. Then I see two horses that are going to be beat pretty equally, vying for the second choice in this race. And that’s certainly Early Voting and Secret Oath, but then I see a gap after that. And the two horses that I think will be interesting, mid kind of long shots are Simplification and Creative Minister.

Brian Zipse:

Creative Minister, we haven’t talked about much. Just like Early Voting, he’s very lightly raised. He’s only had three starts. He doesn’t have the speed of Early Voting, but he’s looked good. He just missed it as a debut sprinting. And then he’s stretched out with two nice wins now. A maiden win at Keeneland, that allowance win at Churchill Downs on Derby day, where he looked quite good. So he’s an interesting horse as well, but I would not dive in on plus 500 on Simplification and Creative Minister, because I think they will be higher. But I do think Secret Oath and Early Voting, if you like them, plus 400, you can’t be too worried about that. I think they certainly could be lower.

Flash:

So we expect maybe Epicenter is only going to get closer to the plus 100 maybe, we’re happy at plus 150, but Early Voting could be maybe what plus 275, plus 325. And the same with Secret Oath. The rest of them, wait till game day as it were, and maybe you’ll get a better price. And the likes of Rattle N Roll and Shake Em Loose, they’re basically just rags, or we’ve got to mention it. We’ve got to mention it because if this was the Kentucky Derby and Rich Strike was in the race, I wouldn’t have mentioned it. So I’m learning by my mistakes of, is there any chance that we are going to see the outsiders of the party, crash the party again,

Brian Zipse:

There’s always a chance, right? And we saw that in the Kentucky Derby, as you said. I just thought the Kentucky Derby was more set up, and then the unique pace that happened, and then the traffic, and the way Rich Strike worked his way through traffic almost magically. I think that race, there were signs that there could be a long shot winner. You had to believe in a fast pace, and you certainly got it, to believe in a long shot winner. In the Preakness, I really don’t see it. There’s always a chance, but I don’t see it. I think if you look at the top five here, you’ve got the likely winner. And to tell you the truth, none of these long shots interest me all that much. Skippylongstocking, Un Ojo, they perhaps could rally and run a good race, but to be first or second in the Preakness, I would be really surprised.

Flash:

So we’ve got 10 runners, and are we still looking at maybe supers and tries and things like that. And remember, we will be going through… Once we get the draw next week, we will be doing another show. Not that the draw really matters, but it’s whether we are going to get some drifters. And also whether some of the horses didn’t get scratched, because… And this is the type of race, only two weeks after the Oaks, two weeks after the Derby, that we’re actually going to be concrete runners, because anything can happen. They can always, oh, they’re bouncing, they’re great in their health, and all of a sudden they get leg spasms and things like that.

Flash:

We’ve been around horse racing long enough to know that they’re not a guaranteed runner until they’re down at the start. So I’m quite happy, Brian, to have a little look at our well… I mean there’s a Q&A, but we’ve answered all the Q&A because Daniella says, “What do you think about Skippylongstocking’s chances?.” You did mention that maybe just may run in to a place, maybe just there to have a day out. But I want to look at the best sports bets, because for me it’s a banker. I’ve took plus 250 twice. I may go in again and be happy with the plus 150. I was happy with Epicenter in the Darby. Got to be happy with it in the Preakness.

Brian Zipse:

Yeah. I think you made a very wise bet with Epicenter at plus 250. You were unlucky not to have the winner of the Kentucky Derby with Epicenter plus 250 now, already as we see, plus 150, I wish I was sitting on a plus 250 with Epicenter, Flash.

Flash:

Yeah, but your second bet is obviously the filly as well. And that’ll be another romance, can you imagine?, obviously I don’t want it to imagine, because I told you before, I don’t want to see Zandon come in and beating my Epicenter. Now I do not want the filly because we had a romantic Darby winner, and then we have a romantic Preakness winner. Come on. When is the best horse going to win? Epicenter needs to win. So you’ve gone for Secret Oath plus 400. You think that’s a good price, a Epicenter, good price of plus 150 for me, it’s just banker. I’m all in, no other horse will be on my card. It’s Epicenter or nothing, but listen, Brian I’m really, really pleased that your… Oh, Aaron Rod says, “Thoughts on a trifecta?” Epicenter for sure, Secret Oath. Who’s the third one? Is it Early Voting because it burns off the others, or does Simplification come down the outside and nab third?

Brian Zipse:

Yeah. Skippylongstocking would be the one long shot that I could see sneaking in, Early Voting really comes down to how much better he’s gotten since the Wood Memorial. But if I had to play one horse right now, it’d be the same horse that I used in all my trifectas in the Kentucky Derby and that’s Simplification.

Flash:

Yeah. Second, third and fourth in the Derby. I mean, listen, it’s one of those, third’s not there. Replace the third in Zandon, stick in Secret Oath. Epicenter, Secret Oath and Simplification. They’ve done it. Group one. Listen, just let them go. That’s the other thing, group one form, grade ones. And if they’re all well and they put their best foot forward, it is Epicenter, Secret Oath, Simplification. We’ve just given you the trifecta. So from Brian and myself and everyone at BetUS , remember to subscribe to this new channel at betus.com, which is the golf, the tennis and the horse racing. And remember to ring the bell so we can notify you and you will never miss any content again. So we’ll see you again next week, when we start lumping on. At the moment, we are just happy to get these odds. If they get bigger, we’re coming in with the satchels full of money. You take care.

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