A football star-turned-horse owner, a trainer having a renaissance
in Kentucky Derby 2025 preps, a Pick 5 on Saturday at Gulfstream Park and the
botched pronunciation of a horse are topics on the table for this week’s Ron
Flatter Racing Pod.

Former Pro Bowl quarterback Jake Delhomme talks about his love of the game, and
that would be Thoroughbred racing. He discusses a little football and his 12
years as a stable owner but also the two horses he has running this weekend on
Louisiana Champions day. Touchuponastar and Mangum could be returning with
Delhomme to a familiar place for all of them, namely the winner’s circle at
Fair Grounds.

Trainer Eoin Harty has won Kentucky Derby preps this fall with
First Resort in the Grade 1 Kentucky Jockey Club and Poster in the Remsen (G2).
He discusses the path to perhaps his first Derby starter in 14 years and how Godolphin
has helped him get some 2-year-old standouts in his barn.

Paddock Prince handicapper David Levitch has weekend handicapping for
the last five races Saturday at Gulfstream Park along with some thoughts about
the Los Alamitos Futurity (G2), a Derby points prep the same day. He and
Flatter also serve up a creative way to say the name of a horse who Levitch
likes.

Co-host John Cherwa of the Los Angeles Times will offer his
highlights and perspective from the Global Symposium on Racing in Tucson,
Ariz., and he will help digest a sad chapter this week involving a fire in Flatter’s
hometown Chico, Calif.

Oh, yes. There will be a word or two about the Kentucky Derby
points preps, namely the Remington Springboard Mile in Oklahoma and the Los
Alamitos Futurity (G2) in California.

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