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Mike Francesa with Brad Thomas

WFAN Daily

Audacy

Sports

3.8794 Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2017

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Handicapper Brad Thomas joins Mike Francesa live at Bar A to talk about the Travers.

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0:00.0

Hey everyone, it's Boomer and Gio, and if you're into New York sports or you want straight talk about what's really going on in the sports world, Boomer and Geo is your show. We're covering it all. Yankees wins, Giants drama, national headlines, and whatever chaos the day brings on the field and all. No filler, no filters, just real conversation. And believe me, plenty of laughs every weekday morning. We don't hold back and we don't waste your time.

0:22.8

We get to what actually matters.

0:24.5

That's Boomer and Gio, and you can listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your pods. Brad's with us now, so let's get to it. Let's do some Travis tomorrow, I'm on, so here we go. Brad, welcome. How are you? I'm good, Mike. How's it going?

0:38.4

All right. Let's get to the very full field for the Travis tomorrow, including all three

0:45.0

Triple Crown winners, which you very rarely get into Travis with them coming off for the most

0:51.9

part, disappointing races. What's your overall thoughts on the race first, Brad? I think it's an open race. I think we're seeing horses who have not improved since the spring. We're seeing other horses who have improved, and we're seeing some new shooters, too. I think it's chaos. That makes for a great betting and exciting sport. All right, let's start from the derail with Cloud Computing, the Preakness winner, who did not run well in a Jim Dandy. He had an absolutely perfect pace setup and inside-out trip, Mike, off a perfect 42 days of rest when he got up in the pre-fist over the super hard-used two-year-old champion, Classic Empire, who actually was much the best horse on the day.

1:28.2

He deserved to win the race to the Classic Empire.

1:30.6

As you said, Cloud Computing faltered meekly in the Jim Danty.

1:34.7

He was pressing the pace of the Derby winner always dreaming in that race.

1:38.3

That's not what he wants to do.

1:40.0

He's going to try to replicate his pocket inside out, preak trip and sit in the traverse but my issue with cloud computing my issues actually

1:48.2

are the mile and a quarter distance in his overall quality

1:51.4

i still have questions about that for him i haven't seen him finish well

1:56.0

often enough versus top competition especially when he hasn't had everything go

2:00.3

his way.

2:02.6

Nick Cito has Giuseppe the Great, who has chugged along for a piece in a couple of

2:08.1

graded stakes. What's your thoughts on Giuseppe?

2:10.8

I don't think he's good enough. He had a good trip and setup stretching out to nine prolongs

2:15.1

into Jim Dandy, but he just picked up the dead wood in that race.

2:18.5

So when everybody stopped except for Good Samaritan, he was of absolutely no match for Good Samaritan.

2:23.9

Even the horses who ran meekly in the Jim Dandy, they're going to run better in the Travers.

2:28.2

I don't think Giuseppe is ready for them.

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