Recorded live under the sycamore tree in the Keeneland paddock, this is an audio-only twist on our Pro Player Roundtable. 2023 BCBC champion Sean Boarman is joined by Ryan Petrunyak, who qualified for this year’s Breeders’ Cup Betting Challenge and has been running his handicapping ideas past Sean all season. This time we hit record.
The theme is narrative vs. numbers. Ryan and PTF pitch the stories going around Breeders’ Cup week: the jockey knocks, horses for courses, Kentucky Downs form, a virus in the barn, a foot issue. Sean tells us which ones he’d bet against and which have real signal. Along the way: why he thinks Domain Expansion is the most likely winner of the Juvenile Fillies, his case for Qirat as the European who could get lost on the tote in the Mile, a pass on the Distaff, and his love for Sovereignty in the Classic. Plus BCBC strategy for the big two-horse races and when to sit out.
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- 0:00 Live from the Keeneland paddock
- 2:25 Juvenile Turf Sprint: Libertango, Mussab, Force Noir
- 7:23 Juvenile Fillies: Domain Expansion, Emphatic, Miss Monica
- 11:27 Juvenile Fillies Turf: Sun Goddess vs. Amusingly
- 15:38 Juvenile: Hughes, Coach Pope, American History
- 21:17 Juvenile Turf: How’s Al Today, Folsom Blues, Great Barrier Reef
- 30:22 Filly & Mare Sprint: Ways and Means
- 34:06 Turf Sprint: Bacio vs. Starlust, Cy Fair
- 37:52 Dirt Mile: Further Ado, Lord Fons
- 42:26 Filly & Mare Turf: Blue Bolt, Precise, Red Letter
- 48:11 Sprint: Englishman, T O Elvis and BCBC strategy
- 53:48 Mile: Rhetorical, Notable Speech, Qirat
- 58:47 Distaff: Nitrogen, Fully Subscribed
- 1:03:14 Turf: Diamond Necklace, Benvenuto Cellini, Bay City Roller, Hotazhell
- 1:07:20 Classic: Sovereignty, Forever Young, Knightsbridge, Magnitude
- 1:17:53 Wrap-up
Every horse, every race: narrative past performances, ITM Staff picks and history for all 14 races on the ITM Breeders’ Cup hub.
