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At the Track: Road to the Kentucky Derby | May 2, 2026 | Hour 1

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4.4559 Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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In this hour of At the Track: Road to the Kentucky Derby, hosts Mike Somich and Patrick Meagher give live updates of Kentucky Derby day at Churchill Downs, and preview the main race! Also, joining the show is legendary announcer Dave Johnson!

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0:00.0

This is Bicent, the Sports Betting Network.

0:11.0

This is Bison at the track, the road to the Kentucky Derby.

0:16.0

Now here's your host, Mike Sommich and Patrick Maher.

0:20.1

Beeson, the Sports Betting Network, Mad Dog Sports Radio converge for four hours, of course.

0:27.7

Beeson at the track, road to the Kentucky Derby, the 152nd running of the Kentucky Derby.

0:34.5

And I got to be honest, I'm about as excited as I've been since last year's

0:38.8

Kentucky Derby to be here with you. Mike Somich, of course, I'm Patrick Maher, Aaron Halterman,

0:44.4

other duties, but he will be texting his thoughts, of course, on the Kentucky Derby. As we

0:49.9

mentioned, the 152nd, Mike, and we say it every single year. I know we do that it's a wide open

0:57.1

race because it's anomalous, 20 horses, mile and a quarter, three-year-olds. But Mike Sommich,

1:03.9

when we say that this one is wide open, it's wide freaking open. Yeah, just look at the betting board

1:10.6

and how this thing has created just a smorgas board of horses that are sitting between five and one to 10 to one on the on the current odds board right now. You've got your favorite on the rail and renegade, but so happy, close behind, both of them sitting at five to one on the board. We had a scratch this morning of the Puma, who was one of those horses

1:27.8

that was taking money. So we're down to 19 into the main field versus the 20 we regularly get.

1:32.7

But contention runs deep, Patrick. You can legitimately make a case for 10 to 12 of these 19

1:37.9

horses that they could win. I don't believe that those cases are all great, but I've heard people

1:42.8

try to make cases for that many horses in this race. A wonderful race to bet. You're going to get paid no matter what direction you're going to go. You've got opportunities with exactives, superfectives. We've got daily doubles. We've got a pick four that starts out in the race right now, the American turf that's about five minutes away that ends in the Kentucky Derby. So a lot of different betting options as we lead up into the run for the roses.

2:03.4

And I need remind you, because Mike reminds me every day, that he hit the Superfecta last year

2:09.1

right here on V-Sin and Mad Dog Sports Radio.

2:13.0

So there's no pressure this year for Samo to repeat.

2:16.8

I want to just tell you something that's about as exciting as it gets.

2:20.5

We now on YouTube TV.

2:22.3

So if you're driving home on Mad Dog Sports Radio or Veson, we now,

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