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All right, let's do this cash to ticket part one of this deal for Derby Week guys. I am in the home studio. I am just going to give you the draw.

Obviously I wasn't going to talk about it on the radio show today here in Detroit, but that's what cash to ticket is for.

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And Jim and I together right now. Evan handed out another golf winner. We're doing golf throughout the summer plus eight hundred.

I forget who because it's a tournament I don't care about, but I know Evan handed you a winner. I think it was Tony Finau.

Kenny's been crushing the playoffs. I think he's nine and two in the NHL and cookie said he wants to do a little NBA.

So get with it. And if there is a desire for a mail bag questions, comments, cash to ticket podcast at gmail.com.

And we'll hit it, man. I'll come in. I'll do a special episode. But my primary function here in the, you know, under heavy quotations off season.

Triple crown horse racing. I've tried to take you through some of the Derby preps. I was lucky enough to be able to get to go to a few of those.

And now it's the main deal. Derby one forty nine. Let's get to it. So the draw. No, it's not like the old days where they pick the names out of a hat.

Derby with a little more standardized process here. Where a race official will pick the name and in simultaneous fashion another race official picks a corresponding gate number out of basically a pile of paper, if you will.

So here's how it works. If you're a grizzled vet bear with me. I want to get people into our game. I want to get people who don't know anything about it to give it a chance.

So for a lot of people Derby is going to be the only thing they watch. That's a goddamn shame. But you know what? You got to walk before you run. So look Derby, as we've discussed, you can go download kind of that prep episode of the pod.

It's an unnatural race. 20 horses is just something you're never going to see in the United States of America except for the Kentucky Derby. There are rare instances if horses travel to places like Australia, Hong Kong, the UAE. You will see big field.

But for 99.9% with a bar over it of horses. This is the first last and only time they'll ever see this amount of horses.

So unnatural and the draw. Look, I think the draws a little overblown. I'll be honest with you. Now I've got some fun stats for you about what post positions give you the most winners.

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