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The Matt Jones Podcast

The Matt Jones Podcast: E38 Derby Handicapping Help & Oscar Combs

The Matt Jones Podcast

Matt Jones

Sports

2.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2016

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

We've dabbled into Derby, but today it's a headfirst dive into handicapping The Fastest Two Minutes in Sports with Ed DeRosa of TwinSpires.com. If you wanna win money this Saturday, you need to listen to the first 35 minutes of this podcast. Following DeRosa for his first appearance on The Matt Jones Podcast is Oscar Combs. Highlights include: -- How to look for a longshot to win big in exotic bets. -- Three stats that matter when handicapping horses. -- Looking back on the life and career of Ed Davender. -- John Wall and DeMarcus Cousins are eligible for the UK Hall of Fame for the first time; will they get Oscar's vote? You can have every podcast delivered straight to your phone by searching for “The Matt Jones Podcast” on iTunes and clicking “subscribe.” It doesn’t get much easier than that. If you aren’t an iTunes person, you can also stream every podcast on Podbay or check it out on the Stitcher app. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I was gambling in Havana

0:04.0

I took a little risk

0:09.0

send lawyers guns and money.

0:14.0

Dead, get me out of this.

0:19.0

Ha!

0:20.0

Welcome everyone to episode 38 of the Matt Jones podcast here on Wednesday of Derby Week.

0:27.4

Everybody's getting all excited about the Derby in Kentucky. It's amazing how much the city of Louisville gets into this. I mean you

0:35.7

can't go anywhere without people asking who's your Derby horse and we decided

0:40.5

might as well bring a horse racing person on so Ed De Rosa is joining me here.

0:45.7

Ed is going to he's from TwinsSpires.com which is a place you can go gamble on the Kentucky Derby and all the rest of it and he's actually

0:56.0

going to give us a bunch of picks and I have to tell you we taped this just a minute ago and it was actually

1:00.1

really good like it's got the stuff down on the Derby and if you listen I

1:04.8

think you'll be more suited to make money come Derby in Oaks Day to once you

1:10.4

listen to Ed Rosa and then Oscar Combs, Oscar's actually not been on the podcast.

1:14.2

So we're gonna have him on and we're gonna talk about

1:16.9

the whole criteria and the selection of Jersey, retirement,

1:20.9

etc.

1:21.4

Oscars on the committee that does that. They meet soon to decide

1:26.2

who's going into the Hall of Fame and we'll talk about that and this year for the

1:29.5

first time Wall Cousins Patterson, that class is now eligible for the Hall of Fame.

1:35.0

So with Oscar on the committee, we'll talk to him about that and what that process is going to be like.

1:41.0

So it should be very interesting.

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