00:00This week's edition of First Things First, I caught up with the one and only Michael McCarthy to find out
00:05exactly how journalism worked.
00:08How was he, Mike?
00:15Timing is everything, and mine is bad, apparently, because I'm getting Michael McCarthy at the races, and he just got
00:21nosed out.
00:22Anyway, we'll rewind to first thing this morning and journalism. Tell me about his work and what you're thinking.
00:28Very good work. On his own, first after the break this morning at 6.30, I thought he worked a
00:34wonderful five-eighths, 101-1 on my watch.
00:38Final quarter, 24-3. I think the best part of it, you might not be able to see, which is
00:43a gallop out.
00:44Went from the wire to the seven-eighths pole in 12-2, and seven-eighths pole to three-quarter pole
00:49in 13 and change.
00:50So the horse is really starting to get his air now. Seems like he's going the right way.
00:55Anyway, we'll work him here next week and kind of start to come up with a game plan of what
00:59we'd like to do.
01:00How happy are you that he got to stay in training as a four-year-old? Because that seems to
01:05be kind of an in-thing right now, doesn't it?
01:07Yeah, yeah. Obviously, I think we had two six-year-olds run well in the World Cup, the Saudi Cup,
01:15or whatever it was.
01:16Pegasus as well. I think a couple of older horses ran well.
01:19So, you know, usually in this day and age, when horses are so quick to be whisked off to the
01:24breeding shed after their three-year-old season,
01:27it was really nice to hear that he'd be coming back as a four-year-old.
01:32Obviously, sovereignty coming back, too. So I think that's going to make, you know, for a great series of races,
01:39hopefully at some point between the two of them and some of these other horses that are coming along.
01:46Baeza, Magnitude, you know, a good group of older horses this year.
01:52So it should make some things exciting.
01:55What about Meaning? She worked, too.
01:57Meaning worked this morning. Real happy with that. Half-mile 49-2 in company with a filly named Brooklyn Blonde.
02:04I believe they were the XBTV work of the day.
02:07Woo!
02:08Both of them are kind of got a soft circle around the Santa Eda Oaks right now.
02:13So we'll see how things go over the next couple of weeks.
02:15But both fillies very well in themselves.
02:19Does Meaning always have talent?
02:20Ever feeling that Eclipse thoroughbreds have always thought she's a little better than she showed until her last race?
02:25Yeah. Timing is everything in our game.
02:28She got good at a little bit, or ready to run, I should say, at an odd time of the
02:34year and broke her maiden over at Los Alamitos sprinting.
02:38Spacing was ample enough to go ahead and give the Breeders' Cup Juvenile fillies a try.
02:45I thought she ran a valiant fourth that day, got jostled around a little bit, a couple furlongs from home.
02:51Maybe could have made the difference between her finishing fourth and third.
02:55Got a nice break.
02:57Got some pounds on her and got a nice kind of summer coat on her now.
03:02And obviously her win in the Las Virginas was impressive.
03:06And three races off of a comeback.
03:08Hopefully we landed ourselves in the Kentucky Oaks.
03:16Thanks very much to Michael.
03:18A quick update there on Meaning, and we'll take a look at her work in the First TV Work of
03:23the Week.
03:24Now, going on at Santa Anita this weekend, we have the Smorgasbord Fried Chicken event, which Randy will be flying
03:31out for.
03:31Won't you, Randy?
03:32Is it Nashville hot?
03:35Sure.
03:35Yeah, Nashville hot.
03:36A little bit of fried chicken at Santa Anita.
03:39And we've got stakes races all weekend with the San Luis Rey and the Irish O'Brien.
03:44Join us at Santa Anita Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
03:48Today.
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