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All right, catch the ticket. Great to be with you guys. It is Derby Week. It is the Derby episode.

I'm going to try to cater to as many people as possible. First things first, if you're seeing this on your phone or you're listening, we've already done the draw breakdown.

I've already given you a little bit of an oak stay breakdown with some of the steak races. You can go and get that, and as always, rate review, subscribe.

And again, I know for some, I'm not going to go deep enough with this. For others, it'll probably be a little much.

So in maybe in many ways, I'm not hitting the mark for any one, but what I can't do is just geek out for the horse players out there because guys you know it.

We all love the sport, but there's not a lot of us. And I do want to get more people involved.

So bear with me and hopefully you pull some value out of this somewhere.

So let me start with this before we go Derby specific. And on the episode, I just want to do a minute on how you even begin the process of handicapping.

How do you learn? I'll explain a little bit about how I approach handicapping. Doesn't mean it's right. I'm just giving you what I do.

I want to break down the Derby and show you the way to approach a massive 20 horse field. We'll do a little all stakes preview.

I'm going to give you a late double that I'm going to play. And then the Derby and how I'll bet it how I approach it.

So without further ado, let's get into it. So for people just starting and I have friends who have gone to the big races with me.

They enjoy the track. They enjoy the trips, but they don't necessarily handicap. They don't study. They just enjoy the event and the party and you get the question,

well, how do I even begin this? So the way I've described it is a past performance. So you go to the early racing form. That's where I would go.

And you use a classic past performance. They have a formulator one, which is more computer heavy. You can punch in parameters.

It will spit out different numbers. Just work with me. There are multiple companies who provide past performances.

View it like when you're looking at a football team, and you pull up the schedule, who they've played the scores, the stats, where there are offense ranks, where they're defense ranks, et cetera.

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