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But I need to ask you as a casual. What's going on with all these horses?

Oh, this is what we started.

Scratches and... Okay, well scratches are precaution.

That's... Sure, but there's like seven horses.

Well, hold on. Are you talking the norm?

Wait, you're talking about the horses breaking down and being euthanized.

That's not a scratch. You're talking about the horses dying.

Yes. Okay. The Derby, what you had five scratches, I think they're related.

I'll give you an example. So forte being scratched.

So I got...

Yeah, I got a phone call Saturday, buddy who works in the industry and he goes,

Hey, I'm just getting some whispers and I told him it was knowledge.

If you follow horse racing closer, if you have contacts in the game, forte kind of had a stumble in his workout.

Like a little something happened and they were being very tight-lipped and we had the conversation.

I said, it wouldn't shock me at all with the current climate.

What's going on at Churchill? If they scratch, if the state comes in and scratches him.

So what happened is Todd Pletcher, the trainer didn't scratch him.

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