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The Favorites Sports Betting Podcast

3 Years of Silence, Bad Wedding Dates & The Kentucky Derby with Mike Conti

The Favorites Sports Betting Podcast

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News, Sports News, Football, Fantasy Sports, Sports

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2026

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

The Favorites is back as Action Network trio Stuckey, Kendra Middleton & Brandon Kravitz are off to the races! The 152nd running of the Kentucky Derby is this Saturday at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky and who else better to join the show than horse racing effecianado Mike Conti. Together the crew gets into all of Conti's expertise in and around the racetrack, how to approach betting the event and where he's seeing value in the market. Tune in for a breakdown of Renegade, the favorite in this event, and a few longer shots and stay aways like Chief Wallabee, Right To Party, The Puma and Wonder Dean. Plus, we get Conti's favorite race moments, the squad plant's their flag on an outright winner and Stuckey's got a strange hypothetical involving a genie and three years of silence. We're back every Tuesday and Thursday so subscribe, rate and review for more fun. 

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0:00.0

Welcome to the favorites presented by Draft Kings.

0:12.5

The Crown is yours.

0:13.7

We are an action network podcast.

0:15.8

I'm Brandon Kravitz, your host, back at it with my peeps.

0:18.9

The first lady of the pod, kendra middleton the prime

0:22.1

minister of dgen nation stucky big pop a pump you guys ready to bet some horses we've got mike

0:30.2

conti joining us later on in the podcast and we will plant our flag on the kentucky derby kend, best name in the field. I know that you've

0:39.9

already scoped this out. So go. Tell us. What is it? Every single year, this is how I bet on who I

0:45.4

think is going to win and it has done me wrong for forever. I'm going right to party is the best.

0:49.9

It's not even close. But if I had to pick a number two, it would be litmus test.

0:57.1

Lipness test was on my short list as well.

1:02.5

I think Chief Wallaby, there's something about that that just kind of rings a bell for me.

1:05.5

Stocky, best name in the Kentucky Derby field.

1:07.9

I'll go cheap Wallaby.

1:15.8

And it does look like I was really curious to see if prediction markets were going to offer the derby, but it doesn't look like they are.

1:23.6

There's like a, I was curious to see if they're going to go against the horse interstate act or something, but it looks like they're not.

1:31.6

But I'll say favorite name, Chief Wallaby, which is who I may or may not be betting on,

1:38.6

more to come on that later. Yes, we will dive deep into all of that. I'm interested in the prediction markets thing because the fact that you can bet on which politician is going to win

1:43.7

which gubernatorial race,

1:46.2

but you can't bet on a horse seems odd to me.

1:49.1

But perhaps a different conversation for a different day.

1:52.2

Stucky, if you had to name a horse after an obscure college football player, who would you

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