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The Valenti Show

"The Picks" Are Back!!

The Valenti Show

Audacy

Sports

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

The guys give their bets for the Travers and week zero in College Football.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Okay, so normally at this time, and for basically the next, what, 25 weeks, oh God, Kenny stressed out, this would be when we would do the picks.

0:12.1

And while there is some college football, we're going to kind of do a test room.

0:16.6

But since Rico's not here, I get to do slander-free a couple minutes on the real sporting event of this weekend.

0:23.6

No, it's not Iowa State and Kansas State in Farmageddon in Dublin.

0:28.3

It's not Hawaii and Stan.

0:31.1

No, no, no, no, no.

0:32.8

It is the summer derby.

0:35.1

It is the grade one travers at Saratoga for $1.25 million,

0:39.8

Kenny going the classical distance of a mile and a quarter.

0:44.3

And I want to just offer something, all right?

0:47.3

First of all, for the slander, for the people who don't like horse racing,

0:50.7

explain why it's on Fox Saturday.

0:54.0

Not the Grizzly Bear network like the NHL. No, no. Not ESPN,

0:59.3

the Ocho. This isn't log rolling. And it's not even on just FS1 or FS2, which are quality.

1:05.3

No, no. It's on big Fox, just like the NFL. So let's cut the slander now here's the deal travers i want to offer

1:14.2

you something yes and david let me give you this all right so here's what i got to do

1:24.7

nothing drives me crazier than when people go on TV and just hand you chalk, the Travers

1:32.1

begins and ends with sovereignty.

1:34.3

That's Rico's horse.

1:35.8

And I'll leave all bias aside about who owns it and why I have issues with it.

1:39.8

The point is, yes, sovereignty is the most likely winner.

1:42.7

The horse is an absolute monster. He's done

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