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

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🗓️ 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 Aaron Halterman, VSiN At The Track, and Gino Buccola, Daily Racing Form Handicappers, to talk all things Kentucky Derby!

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0:11.0

This is B-Sin at the track, the road to the Kentucky Derby.

0:15.5

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0:58.0

Beeson at the track, the road the Kentucky Derby, Mike Somich, I'm Patrick Maher.

1:03.1

And I am so happy our next guest is here because I'm going to be honest, Churchill Race 10 put

1:09.6

Samich in a bad mood. So I need to bring in Halty. He is one half of Visan at the track. Of course, racing dudes.com. He's the reason I'm working four hours today. We say hi to Aaron Halterman. Halty, what's up? Well, first of all, you're welcome. I'm glad that you're here with Saimich for four hours.

1:29.2

There could be worse ways to spend four hours, Patrick. I'm not sure how many worse ways, but there could be a few, right? So sorry he's in a bad mood. I'm here to bring the mood up, though, buddy. That's why I'm here. I'm here for a good time. Tomo. I'm not sure bad mood is allowed.

1:43.9

I'm actually, we talked about T.O. Elvis.

1:46.5

I've got him in the pick five.

1:47.7

Like, it's okay. We're fine. I, yes, would have preferred another horse to get home first. But what really put me in a bad mood, Mr. Halterman, was the start to this day and the like 40 text messages I woke up to at 6 a.m. saying that the Puma was out of the race.

2:02.7

Scratches have been a big part of this Kentucky Derby. How have they affected your week leading up to this race as we've lost silent tactic, right to party, the Puma, full effort.

2:11.7

How has it adjusted your handicapping? I know you had to take a couple of horses off your try once this news came down.

2:35.0

Yeah, every day you kind of adjust a little bit, right? And I apologize. I was one of those 40 messages this morning. I was very ready to tell you that news to put you in a good mood to start your day. Look, I mean, when the Puma Scratch, guys, it really affected me a lot because he's one I kind of liked everywhere. I had him in had even second and tries and i just kind of wanted to get him involved everywhere because i just thought

2:39.8

he had been getting better and better and so when he scratched that was a real bummer that was the

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