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Hello and welcome.

It's our number three, hour number three of our radio program as we loviate all day long here.

Whenever you download the podcast, that's when we start yapping away here.

Just a voice in your head. So the rare and appropriate horse racing monologue, do you have empathy for legendary horse trainer Bob Baffert, a doping

scandal rocking the Kentucky Derby? We break it down for you right now in our number three.

It's a horse, of course. What's the big deal? Welcome in the beginning of another hour, the Ben Mather Show.

We are in the air everywhere as we wax loquacious coast to coast, border to border, and beyond on the vast and powerful microphones of FSR emanating live from inside your eardrums

providing very marginal overnight sports talk radio all night long into the wee hours of the morning here

from the Fox Sports Radio Studios.

And here we are back at it again, together again, this hour.

And our lead coming from the stables, the smell of horse crap in the air everywhere.

We have a piping hot sports scandal.

It's fresh out of the oven.

And you know, I am a sucker for scandal.

I love doing sports radio during a scandal.

It's what I live for.

Now, this one is not as sexy as your normal scandals because it involves the equine world.

And it also involves legendary trainer Bob Baffer.

I'm not sure how much you know about this story,

how much you were paying attention to it over the weekend, maybe not,

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