Right to Party Update + McPeek’s WINNING Picks This Week!

On this episode of Horse Races Now, we dive into the latest on Right to Party, what it means for the racing scene, and why fans should be paying attention right now.

🔥 But here’s the can’t-miss part…
Kenny McPeek gives an in-depth look at the horses in his barn running this week — and lines out some potential WINNERS. If you’re following the races or looking for insight you won’t find anywhere else, this is gold.

Plus, we’re joined by Joe Clabes of the Permanently Disabled Jockeys Fund (PDJF) to talk about their upcoming fundraiser and the powerful mission behind supporting injured jockeys.

💥 In this episode:

• Right to Party update and outlook
• Kenny McPeek’s barn breakdown (horses running THIS week)
• Insider angles + potential winners 👀
• PDJF fundraiser details with Joe Clabes
• How you can support the cause

This episode brings together insider racing intel + a powerful cause — don’t miss it.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:00

It's like a stock market. Morning line up in it.

SPEAKER_04 0:04

It's really super line already.

SPEAKER_01 0:11

Morning line up.

SPEAKER_03 0:19

Welcome to the horse races in the podcast. Because right to party had a big show in. He did.

SPEAKER_05 0:32

He ran super. Really did.

SPEAKER_03 0:34

Ran super. Now come on. Now listen, last time we talked, this is last week, it was kind of like, hey, I don't know if we have the right horse. I don't know.

SPEAKER_05 0:42

Yeah. No, no, he definitely went off 38 to 1. And, you know, my my team up there in New York, Jimmy Jerkin's got that horse ready. I've been I've been based here in Kentucky, obviously dealing with um all the movement from Fairgrounds, Oaklawn, and getting set up at Keeneland and Churchill and of course my neck. But um, you know, Jimmy's done a great job with him up there in New York, that team, and then that Colt's gonna chip down to us on Friday. And he's a he's a classic setup horse. He needs pace in the race. When he gets pace in the race and and uh he can find his way through that crowd, he's gonna come. He's gonna get another eighth of a mile to run. Well, he's gonna have to move up five, six, seven lengths to to to have a chance to hit the board in the derby. But but um you know Chester Broman has been around this business forever. He's been one of the great supporters of thoroughbred racing in New York and otherwise. And and uh Becky Thomas picked this court out, and um, yeah, it's exciting for them. Um, you know, uh for the Colt to knock down a second and get the points was was exactly what we wanted. And maybe he's a horse that's maturing and going the right way.

SPEAKER_03 1:45

So you paid the late nomination fee.

SPEAKER_05 1:47

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:48

What's that look like? What's that mean?

SPEAKER_05 1:49

Six grand. I mean, we we should probably do that on all of them. I mean, for that matter, um it's probably less expensive just to wait until the the last fee and um and do it then. So I might start doing that every year. Just wait. You know, because you gotta do it in January, and sometimes things go right, sometimes they go wrong. Um if they punch their ticket and you've got the points. So you it you don't pay the six thousand until you get the points, and he's got the points. So where do you sit now? I mean, is this a derby potential? Oh yeah, no, he's number thirteen on points. Right. He's in he's in. Oh, you're gonna run him? Oh, yeah. Yeah, we're gonna run him. Okay, and that's big news. No, what we need him, what we need to do is him to be thriving. He needs to move forward. He needs to come to Churchill and love the racetrack. And and that can happen.

SPEAKER_03 2:35

Did he ran it, Churchill?

SPEAKER_05 2:36

No, he hadn't stepped foot on it. But he will this week. He's gonna he ships down Friday. Um, we'll have him, we'll probably won't get him on the track until Monday. And then um then we'll uh give him a little well five days of galloping and then give him a workout over the track on on Saturday. And um, let's see how he's doing. I mean, um it's a good position. Um I'm fortunate to have a good team. And well I said, um, kudos to Jimmy up there in New York and and uh he he's he's uh developed the source and done a great job.

SPEAKER_03 3:04

Jimmy's been a really good trainer in his own right for a lot of years, right?

SPEAKER_05 3:07

Well, yeah, multi- you know, multiple grade one winner. I mean, you Jimmy's won the Travers a couple times, and he's um you know, unfortunately he's client-based. I don't I I don't know the backstory on all that, but you know, my my goal is to surround myself with really confident, good people. He's one of them.

SPEAKER_03 3:22

That's awesome. Well, uh listen, I think people are really excited that you're gonna have a horse running. I mean, again, this was you know seven, eight days ago. It didn't look like we we had one in the race, but right to party showed up.

SPEAKER_05 3:35

Let's do it. When did you get that song on here?

SPEAKER_03 3:38

Yeah. Okay. Fight for your right to party, the DC boys, are you? That's it. That's a good one. Um, so you mentioned a couple things, but one more question on right to party. What do you think he has to do? He was closing. Man, he had a few more links. He had a chance there. Do you think that the longer you mentioned it, but obviously the longer race plays to that advantage.

SPEAKER_05 4:00

He's a rich strike type, he's a uh mind that bird type. He we're gonna need a fast pace. They're gonna ignore a horse like him early. Um and on the speed figures are not gonna give him a legitimate chance, but I've seen horses step up and over a course of time and and and move forward, and the added distance is gonna be significant for him. Uh that's a that's a big deal, that that he's gonna get another eighth of a mile. Right. So let's see how he comes to town and let's see how how well he thrives and and uh you know go from there. Who's gonna ride him? Uh Chris Elliott's gonna stay on him. I'm gonna leave the young boy on him. He's ridden him a couple times, and and he uh he's a horse that um he knows already. And so yeah, we'll uh we'll see if the young man can get his father won the Derby. Chris is Stuart Elliott, yeah, which actually I was kind of involved in. Um Stuart had never been to Churchill Downs, had never ridden at Churchill when he rode Smarty Jones in the 2003 Derby. He came to my stable and we let him get on horses every day all week and and I let him breeze horses at Churchill. And he and I actually sat down and uh talked about Harlan's holiday, who who was the favorite the year before. And I and I felt like we had made some pace mistakes with him. And um I encouraged Stewart. I said, Look, you know, look, don't let your horse get behind a group of horses in the first turn, or you're gonna have to wiggle your way through traffic. And um, and he won the Derby on Smarty Jones. You know, we you know kind of have a connection there.

SPEAKER_03 5:25

Have you seen any horses? Uh the Derby seems like it's pretty wide open. Um have you seen anybody that you're like uh this one's gonna be really hard to beat?

SPEAKER_05 5:35

Too soon. Um too soon to say that. Yeah, they're gonna start you're gonna be able to start seeing them. Once they start doing the derby horses galloping before the break, um, we'll be able to watch them all go. Of course, last year sovereignty was watching him train and going, oh wow, how are they gonna beat that beast? Right. So um so we'll we'll pay attention to that as we get closer. Um, you know, I'll give some people some tips on on who I think is a horse that's thriving and standing out. And you know, you get out there and you can watch them jog up and you can see the length of their stride and and and a lot of the energy that they're that they're showing or not showing. And so um, you know, I'll tell I'll I'll be paying attention to all that and I'll come back here and we'll we'll share it on the podcast. We'll love it.

SPEAKER_03 6:20

Hey, that's one of our most viral podcasts ever. Yeah. When you basically laid the whole thing out for everybody, just FY you want to make money, listen here. Um Keenlan's opening this week. Uh I'm assuming you're gonna have some horses running the meat. How important is Keenelin's? I don't know, just everything that happens there from when they start opening and racing. How important is that heading into the triple crown?

SPEAKER_05 6:44

Um, you know, well, the bluegrass stakes is very important. Sure. Um, but actually we won a race there Friday. Opening day was last Friday. Um Miss Call went easy, and then we had another horse run second. But um and I've got one in today and several in tomorrow. But look, Keenan's a fantastic place to go racing, and and it's exciting there, and there's um such energy. I don't know if anybody was able to see the crowd that they had for Bluegrass Day. Crazy. I mean, it would the the whole the whole uh um apron was completely covered in people and there's um there's just a huge uh a lot of energy there. Um you know I love winning at Keeneland.

SPEAKER_03 7:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 7:23

Um I'm gonna try to I think I could win three or four this week down there. Oh, okay. You know, so we got some runners. I'm I'm kind of taking an aggressive approach to the meet, so we'll see.

SPEAKER_03 7:32

Miss Call, let's talk about that. Obviously, we were she had not ran as well and then came back and did win here recently at Keeneland. Uh, what did you see from her, but maybe you know you didn't expect?

SPEAKER_05 7:42

Well, I think I did a little too much with her last fall. Um, you know, she was a filly that that it looked like she was going forward, and then her last race she went off the favorite at the fairgrounds and just ran flat. And then from that point I sent her back to Kentucky and we turned her out for a while. And then um we got her ready over there at Keeneland during the early spring and she she fired a big shot off the shelf. Yeah. She may go to Oakland to run in the Valley of the Vapors. It's a$200,000 stake race, and it historically is one of the easier three-year-old Philly stakes because everybody's already migrated north. But we may truck her back down and settle her in down there and uh and make you know, try to make a stakes winner out of her. She could, as the year goes, go, you know, this is a Philly that could mature into a top Philly. She's beautiful Philly looking. Yeah, gorgeous.

SPEAKER_03 8:30

So as of right now, no Oaks runners, though.

SPEAKER_05 8:32

No, no Oaks runners. She didn't have any points, so there's no shot there. And then taken by the wind is on the outside, looking in on points, but I'm not I'm not leaning at all to going in the Oaks. I'm may try her on the grass in the edgewood.

SPEAKER_03 8:46

Okay. Yeah. There you go. Yeah. Um, horse name that I absolutely love. Um, Delicious Diva. Yeah. Talk to me about that.

SPEAKER_05 8:53

That's Harold Lerner's filly. She won last time out at Oakland. And that filly we had been waiting and waiting. She was almost two months in between races because the race wouldn't go. And then we finally got it to go. But she's um she's a lovely filly and and uh was a pretty expensive yearling, but she's found her way, and I think we'll probably run her again at Churchill next month.

SPEAKER_03 9:14

So uh listen, it's been a good week. I mean, there's been a lot of positive momentum in the barn. Um I what that what what's that tell you about how things are going right now?

SPEAKER_05 9:24

Well, I do I do think we've got a lot of positive going on. Um I mean, you know, look, um it I've said it before, you know, sometimes you're on a mountain and sometimes you're in the valley, and yeah, it goes like that. But um, but the young horses are starting to arrive, and and I'm excited about all that, and we've got the great team of people to to help with all of them. So um it's that time of year, and we will um, you know, hopefully, hopefully we're gonna have a great second half. I see it happening.

SPEAKER_03 9:51

All right. So you said you're gonna have a couple run here at Keeneland. Give us give us give us some insight. Give our give our our loyal listeners something they can uh they can play.

SPEAKER_05 10:00

All right. Well, let me open the horse races now app real quick and take a look at all these.

SPEAKER_03 10:04

By the way, if you don't have the horse races now app, what are you waiting for? I get the ads can be a little bit cumbersome, but man, I go in there and I follow Kenny and I follow the horses I want to, and I just I get all these notifications. It's fantastic the things built.

SPEAKER_05 10:18

Well, we're we're actually working on the ads and kind of re redoing them. Um that's hard because we need ads to be able to keep the lights on. Yeah, we've got to pay a lot of bills, code writing bills, and and um data. You have to pay for data, and we're trying trying to get the tracks to give us. I actually have 20 horses entered in the next week. Okay. Um fresh out today can win. I think that's a fiddle that's playable. Tomorrow, sharing wisdom. This is a filly that um I bought and we're turning over we dropped her in for less than I paid for, but um, but she should be let's see, was she probably three to one? I would guess. Yep, she is three to one. Good guess. Um Huxagena's gonna be scratched. Soulless is a top filly. She's out of Daddy's Little Darling by End of Mischief. This is a absolutely gorgeous Philly, and she I fully expect her to win um tomorrow. Um go to girl, another one. Thriving right now. Had a little winter break. Expect her to win tomorrow. Um first divisions at Oaklawn. He's gonna be the favorite in that spot. Um, two other than allowance race. Let's see what odd kind of odds they laid on him. Two to one.

SPEAKER_03 11:27

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 11:27

Yeah, could win some races this week. All right. 22 blacks, well placed, aggressively placed. He's he's down in there where he can win. He's two to one. Zippy Mark, we love this horse.

SPEAKER_03 11:39

Zippy Mark, I like that name.

SPEAKER_05 11:41

Arkansas Bread. Now he's stretching out in a starter allowance, but he's eight to five with one horse. Looks like there's one horse to beat. Horse named Strike Ridge. Um JJ Gray and Chambers Bill are both both entered an allowance race day after tomorrow. Yeah, I could win six, seven races this time. Yes, yes, we do. Maxim promise, but nice horse, a bit of an underachiever, and he's placed aggressively at Keenland. Caviar Breakfast coming off a layoff. I'm surprised she was 10 to 1 when I looked at this line. I think she would she should be shorter, but um she's doing good too. Coming off a winter break. Culper code, first time starter. I think he's playable. He's gonna pay a big price if he hits the board. I mean, this horse this horse is done his eight to one morning line, but we really like him. That's day after tomorrow. Farrell, he's in Oaklawn. He's a favorite down there too. Five to two. That's day after tomorrow. Hmm. Well, yeah, there's a lot to be excited about. I got a pair in a pair in at Keeneland on Wednesday, nuts and bolts. Cookies run, disappointing her first race, and we're gonna try again there. Favorite day at Oaklawn, he should win. Let's see if they set the odds on that one. Five to two. We're gonna have to come back on the next podcast and see all this how all this played out.

SPEAKER_03 13:05

Yeah, I'm excited.

SPEAKER_05 13:06

Yeah. Candy cane crane, he's in a perfect spot. Gal's delight, she's gotta show a little bit more to win this spot. They hadn't. It's only a six-horse field, though. Mo the Merrier, we really like. This is a really good horse. Let's see, he's drawn good, set post seven. Yeah, you know, between now and let's see, now and Sunday, uh-huh. Should we we should we should ring up four or five? I'm gonna have to get this podcast podcast out today so people can uh Yeah, it's that time of year. Gosh, I didn't, you know, sometimes I get like, did damn I got that many in. I got such a great team of people. I mean, they're fantastic. Greg Gyrt, Churchill, Kevin Gladowski at Keeneland, Mike Kleier at Oaklawn. I mean, Greg Hendricks has jumped on, he's helping us, and of course, Jimmy in New York. Right. What a team. Very lucky.

SPEAKER_03 13:56

Very so it gives me time to do stuff like this. So we had a lot of really nice comments on our last uh podcast. Not a whole lot of questions. A couple of the questions were how are you feeling? How's the neck?

SPEAKER_05 14:06

Um I yeah, I had an appointment yesterday. Um they changed my medication, they put me on a drug called Gabapin Penton because I'm still having nerve issues. Yep. Um nerve specifically with this left arm. You know, sometimes I gotta shake it out. The Gab of Penton makes me a little bit loosey-goosey, which I feel right now. But um, I think I'm moving the right direction. Every day seems a little bit better than the one before. Oh, that's good. And um, I still think I'm punching, you know, like physically. Um I still got a little bit of ways. He said it was gonna take, it's only been it's only been five weeks to the day that I got out of that surgery. So he said it's gonna take a while, you know, between the nerves and like right now, I've still got neck pain, but you know, I'm I'm dealing with it. Um I'm functional, but but not not at the highest level, but I'm doing my best.

SPEAKER_03 14:53

We're gonna have Joe Claybs on. Joe runs the uh professional disabled jockey fund, which provides assistance to jockeys who suffered catastrophic injuries while on the track, resulting in permanent disabilities. Um Kenny, obviously, I know this is an organization that you support. Their big telethon is Saturday, April 18th. What do you want to tell our listeners about it?

SPEAKER_05 15:14

Well, you know, it's a fantastic fantastic thing. I think you know the jockeys that that ride these horses are out there risking their lives every day. And um anytime one of them gets hurt, there's there needs to be a support system for for that. And you know, PDJF is is a great group, and and and Joe relatively new with the PDJF, but he's um longtime friend of mine. I've known him for probably three or four decades, and um and he's uh pushing hard. They had a nice event this winter at Tony Markel's home in Naples that I drove over for. Tony Tony donated six thousand dollars or twenty thirty thousand dollars on the spot for PDJF. And um this guy had the most amazing home in Naples with the whole downstairs is full of these jerseys from pretty much every sport, and and uh he added in uh jockeys and what what he c what I call classic hor you know stables. Um Claiborne, uh Calumet, and uh the silks collection he had was amazing. But the jersey collection for what NFL players, every Hall of Famer he had, every NBA player, and the h his basement, it w it was just as i you can't even imagine all the all the and all of them signed jerseys, sign signed silks. But anyway, the PD PDJF, great organization, and we're gonna continue to just support them. Awesome.

SPEAKER_03 16:39

Yeah, we'll we'll run the spot with Joe here real soon, too. Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen, to the horse races now podcast. We have one of our very few returning guests. We don't we normally don't get guests coming back too much, Joe, but we have Joe Claybs from the Permanent Disabled Jockey Fund with us today. Joe, how are you?

SPEAKER_06 16:58

I'm doing well. You got to be careful who you invite back. That's right.

SPEAKER_03 17:02

You do have to be careful. But Joe, thank you so much for joining us today. We've got a um we've got a really big fundraiser, the eighth annual fundraiser. Um it's the the PDJF Telethon that's coming up on Saturday, April 18th. We just wanted to spread the word, do our part, um, and try to get the the message out there that there's a pretty big need here.

SPEAKER_06 17:24

Yeah, uh and you're right. This is our our most important fundraiser of the year, our biggest day of the year in terms of awareness and revenue brought in. Uh, we hope to be uh to exceed last year's uh amount of fifty five hundred and sixty thousand dollars. Uh and and hit it. It is, it is. Um, you know, this is our 20th anniversary, so we hope to make a big splash this year. And obviously it's been in the news recently that uh Vandal TV, uh their future is is in question, possibly phased out by the end of the year. Uh so we really want to uh put our best foot forward this year and and uh uh you know exceed any expectations and and get our the fundraising year started off on the right foot.

SPEAKER_03 18:05

So Joe, we've talked about this once, but for our listeners that maybe did not catch that episode or maybe don't remember, please tell us what the permanent disabled jockeys fund does.

SPEAKER_06 18:15

Yeah, uh well, we take care of riders that have been injured in catastrophic accidents on um on on the track. Um we currently are are helping 51 uh riders that are on our recipient list. Uh once you qualify for our benefits, they stick with you for life. Uh so we we hope to continue to uh use this revenue that we'll hopefully generate uh on the 18th and and throughout the rest of the year to um uh expand uh and and continue those um uh monthly payments that we make to those to those riders.

SPEAKER_03 18:48

So tell me about this telethon. Who do you have there? Um how how does it work? Where do you do it? Give us some details.

SPEAKER_06 18:56

Well, we're we're broadcast live on on uh Fandle TV and Fox Sports, um uh starting about 12 30 um uh PM uh Eastern time and 9 30 uh Western or Pacific, excuse me. So it's pretty late. Well, uh 9 30 a.m. uh I got Pacific, yeah. Okay, fair enough. I got it. Uh and it'll go to about six o'clock uh uh Eastern time. Uh broadcasting from uh Keeneland and from Santa Anita. Oh we'll we'll have a phone bank of of retired and uh active and uh disabled jockeys there answering the phones, uh uh chatting with the folks that call in and and uh uh sending demand to get their donations uh uh uh processed. And um uh you know, it's uh we've we've got quite a list, as we always do, uh everybody from Steve Cawthon, Pat Day, uh Mike Manchinello, um you know, uh Johnny Velazquez, uh uh the Ortiz brothers, uh Javier Castellano and uh Junior Alvarado, uh you name it. We get great participation from the jockey colonies and both uh obviously should not leave out Mike Smith on the West Coast. Oh, sure. Uh so we get great participation from the jockey colonies uh and the jockey comp uh broader jockey community on both coasts, and it's uh it's really great to see.

SPEAKER_03 20:15

So you're certainly gonna know some of these you call in, you're gonna know who you're talking about.

SPEAKER_06 20:18

There's a pretty good chance. And and even if you don't, you you uh you're uh you look 'em up afterwards and you realize, wow, that's a that's a serious professional jockey. So uh yeah, no, it's it's great. Uh the fans love it uh to be able to to communicate with these guys and gals. Uh so it's uh um it's something we really look forward to. We actually have uh at Caneland, uh for those attending uh the races that day in Lexington, uh at 1130 to 1230, we have an autograph session. Oh, cool. So that's that's gonna be uh something the fans always really enjoy.

SPEAKER_03 20:50

Um so we have a graphic. So let's go ahead and throw it up on the screen here. Um so again, Saturday, April 18th. Uh you can scan that QR code. So what happens if we scan our QR code right now?

SPEAKER_06 21:01

It'll take you straight to our donation website.

SPEAKER_03 21:03

So you can go you don't even have to wait till the 18th century. You can go ahead and do it right now.

SPEAKER_06 21:06

That's right. We've started promoting this as the the um uh the telethon uh period uh right now. So if you made a contribution uh today, it will be counted towards filling the boot, as you'll see on our graphics during the broadcast. Filling the boot.

SPEAKER_03 21:20

I like it. All right, that's clever. Now there's a couple partnerships available here, still two. Are those still available, Joe? Are you still selling those?

SPEAKER_06 21:27

Yeah, we're still looking for partnership uh from folks at various levels. Uh, you know, we do receive some contributions in excess of 50,000. Uh for instance, Kentucky Downs and the Kentucky HBPA partner for a hundred thousand dollar confirm contribution. Fandle TV provides a hundred thousand. So uh but we have uh packages and and uh partnerships that that that last through the year that's starting at ten thousand. But I I want to stress uh no amount is too small. Uh we raise over a hundred thousand dollars from individuals. Individual uh contributions. Some of those are small as five or ten dollars up to two fifty. So uh we'll probably come in with about fifteen hundred uh unique transactions uh through this. That's fantastic, Joe.

SPEAKER_03 22:14

Man, you you you're doing great work here, and I know that um it's thankless work in a lot of ways.

SPEAKER_06 22:20

I get more thanks than I deserve, I think. It is takes a community, it's not a it's not an individual effort by any stretch, and it just speaks to the broad support we have throughout the industry.

SPEAKER_03 22:30

Well, I and I I'm looking at some of these uh some of these corporate sponsors, man. There's some big ones. There's a lot of people on board here. That's fantastic. But every dollar helps. Every dollar goes a long way.

SPEAKER_06 22:40

Every penny.

SPEAKER_03 22:41

Every penny helps. So explain to us exactly what you're doing here. So let's talk about someone who's been critically injured. Um maybe you can give us a name. Give us some real world examples.

SPEAKER_06 22:53

Well, um we recently had a young lady uh was approved for our benefits. Jory Scriver was injured at Sunland Park, I believe, uh out west in Arizona, and she has uh recently been approved. But you know, we have to go through a medical review process, uh look at all the medical records, uh assure that it's a permanent disability, because we need to to make sure that we are serving those that we are that are our priorities and and part of our mission. Uh we can't we can't help every injured jockey that has uh you know some level of disability or or just unable to ride again. These are oftentimes quadrant, paraplegic, uh a wheelchair, uh you know, very serious spinal and and brain injuries. Um so we we need to make sure that we're careful not to uh you know make our criteria too opening.

SPEAKER_03 23:47

You know, Joe, it's funny. Every time we have a jockey on, I make the comment. Not not too many times do people pick a profession that an ambulance chases you around the track, right? Right. But man, they you know, listen, thank God they do, or we wouldn't have this great sport.

SPEAKER_06 24:01

Absolutely. I mean, you know, they they they risk so much. Uh those that have retired healthy, uh, you know, uh understand that it could have been them uh that had ended up in a situation where they relied on our benefits, and it's uh you know, there's just no way to remove all the risks. Though racing has gotten safer certainly in recent years. Um but you can never fully remove the potential for an injury. Like I said, I think the last time I maybe overused this quote, but uh you you can break your neck falling off a horse that's standing still, let alone 45 miles an hour with six or eight other horses, ten nine or ten other horses in the race with you. Um anything could happen.

SPEAKER_03 24:39

And Joe, what does insurance look like for these jockeys? I mean, I I guess that's something that your top guys carry their own thing, but not everybody's gonna have great access to that, are they?

SPEAKER_06 24:49

Yeah, yeah. And I'm I'm really not an expert on on the insurance programs for active riders. I do know and I've heard uh from some that say if you know if you use it, it's very difficult to get it again. Um so it you know it's a hard thing for an actuarial uh uh professional to try to to gauge the risk on, and and it's you know just because of that fact, you can never entirely remove the risk. So yeah, there's there's deficiencies in in certain jurisdictions and state states uh with whether it's workmen's comp or or other uh you know access to insurance. Um but it's um uh it's a challenge. But certainly those at the very top have the wherewithal and and and the ability to to to uh self-insure in some cases, uh but others at the lower end sometimes you know can fall through the cracks. Unfortunately, I our organization can't do a whole lot uh in the insurance realm.

SPEAKER_03 25:42

Got it. Um but yeah. Got it. So uh quick question. When I hear telethon, I think of the old school the phone banks where they're picking up the old school phones and they have all the phones sitting next to them. How does a how does a telephone work today?

SPEAKER_06 25:58

Well, uh it's it's not so far off the old Jerry Lewis telephone. Yeah, that's what there's no singing and dancing. Okay, fair enough. We'll save that for another event. There's no entertainment. No, we'll save that for another event. No, though jocks can be awfully entertaining in their interviews. But uh the uh uh you know, it is uh a phone bank set up both at Santa Anita and at uh Keeneland. Uh but it's uh the technology is vastly improved. So you see that they're in a headset with a laptop, it's not quite the old school phones, but uh yeah, it's very similar to that in a lot of ways though.

SPEAKER_03 26:30

Joe, what would you tell somebody it's like, hey, you know, uh listen, I'd like to help, and man, I could probably only do 25 bucks or whatever it may be. What would you say to somebody like that?

SPEAKER_06 26:40

Thank you very much. That's more than enough. Again, it adds up. When you start talking about the number of people across the country that respond, every little bit counts, and it does add up significantly.

SPEAKER_03 26:51

Yeah, that's fantastic. Let's throw that graphic up one more time. So once again, it's the PDJF Telethon, Saturday, April 18th. Um tune in. So I man, that's a long time to be on TV here, Joe. What what all is so we're just watching people call in or what what happens?

SPEAKER_06 27:09

Well, it's it's through the race day broadcast. So you're watching races and they they cut back and forth. They cut back and forth. We might have some check presentations, some special guests make a few comments and things of that nature, interview some of the disabled jockeys, interview some of the retired Hall of Fame riders. So it's you know, you get to to you know see a lot and hear a lot from the jockey community themselves. Um but yeah, uh other than that, they're they're playing races throughout the day from the various tracks that they're covering.

SPEAKER_03 27:37

Well, Kenny wanted to be here today, but he had a couple things come up, but we wanted to make sure that that horse races now we're doing our part. Um so you know, please we we'd like to uh urge our listeners um to get involved, donate. You can go to that QR code. Um every little bit, you heard Joe, every penny counts. So if you can help a little bit, that would be fantastic. So anything else before we get out of here today?

SPEAKER_06 27:59

Well, no, I just uh thanks for allowing me back. I'm glad I didn't wear out my welcome from last time. Uh uh, you know, I appreciate everything uh Kenny has done for us and continues to do for us. I I see him, of course, in the paddock virtually every day when I'm at the races and and uh can't thank him enough. And and and though I try. And um, yeah, it's it's just great to have the support of the industry. Uh you're among uh a great uh group of partners from around the country of all across section of the industry, and uh it's great to see you be a part of it. So thank you.

SPEAKER_03 28:29

Well, I want I want to mention Cindy Greathouse too, because she she's a big part of this and she's a big believer in what you guys do. And and Cindy basically runs Kenny's business side of things, and yeah, um, she was adamant that that we made this happen and get this out this week, and um she's a big believer.

SPEAKER_06 28:46

Well, she's also a great enabler of what we do, so I I I I couldn't operate too well without her assistance for sure. Fantastic.

SPEAKER_03 28:52

Well, Joe, thank you so much for joining us today. Um, and hopefully uh our listeners can help make a difference. Um Kenny, it's obviously we've got a busy week. You rattled off a ton, you gave our listeners a lot. Anything else before we get out of here today?

SPEAKER_05 29:05

I don't think so. I uh you know, looking forward looking forward to you know having a good Keeneland meet and and going into Churchill. And I don't know, I feel lucky. I mean, you know, I feel I feel like I you know we got a lot great going on. My family's here in town. Um all the grandkids came for Easter. Nice. Yeah, Sherry, you know, she's between kids and grandkids. I don't know how many people we had, but we went to Honey Baked Tan plus some. And then um we've got um we're gonna actually we're gonna be spending time at Magdalena this week because it's spring break. Spring break, yep, kids are out school right now. So we're organizing every cars and dogs and everybody, and we're headed down for I'm gonna stay down there till Monday. How's Sonny? Sonny's great. Um we took him for a long walk yesterday. Uh he he walked me and then um he's gonna go down to the farm. But he's he's doing super.

SPEAKER_03 29:53

Do you love the does he like the farm better than the home here in Louisville?

SPEAKER_05 29:56

He's just a very social dog. Yeah, he likes the farm. Yeah. Yeah, where he can run and do his thing and sit sit on the front of the mat in front of the office and greet people. But I think he's gonna have a great week down there. But the Magdalena staying down there is is uh just a real treasure. Love that. Yeah, we we we'll stay in the breeding shed, which is the old where stallions and mares are mated. Yeah. And uh the breeding shed's a um we refurbished the whole thing when I bought bought the farm, and we've got the grass gallops, and so we'll stay in stay at the farm. And then um the oldest daughter, Jenna, who's getting her PhD at UK, is there and uh yeah, it'll be it'll be good family week. Awesome. Yeah, maybe win some races in the meantime. I'm very lucky. I'm looking, I am so fortunate.

SPEAKER_03 30:39

Fingers crossed. Yes. Let's go. All right, everybody. Thank you for listening. And Kenny, we'll see you at the races.

SPEAKER_05 30:45

See you at the races. Is that you on guitar here? Is that you? Like, did you like like where'd that come from?

SPEAKER_03 30:51

Yeah, I wish I could say it was me. Is that me? I I found this. We could do this though. We could make our own pretty easy. I could play that. Next podcast is calling the right to party.

SPEAKER_05 31:01

The right to party, fight for the right to party, fight for the right to party.

SPEAKER_02 31:04

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