Name: Jockey Mario Gutierrez Breaks Down His Kentucky Derby Win
Uploaded: 2021-06-27T02:53:18.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Jockey Mario Gutierrez Breaks Down His Kentucky Derby Win' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-06-27. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Jockey Mario Gutierrez Breaks Down His Kentucky Derby Win' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-06-27. Transcript available.

Okay, so where are you at in this one, Mario?
19.
19?
Yeah.
Wow.
In the purple?
In the purple, yeah.
And as expected, Trinnyburg had a great start.
Okay, so let's stop when we get to that wide cam again so we can see.
We'll go back next so we can see that wide where it's like the flock.
Okay, right here.
So what's kind of going on right here?
Like horses are coming out.
Some of them, I guess, like are some of the riders are in the lead here.
Like is that because the jockey has like kind of commanded them to be in the
lead
or did the horse just come out strong?
No, a lot of horses are like being commanded to go to the lead, you know,
and everybody is trying to be – it's like not necessarily that you want to go
to the lead, but you want to get a clear path so you can be like maybe like to
be
in front of a horse, whatever horse is behind you because that way you can get
your position faster, you know.
Okay.
And now if a horse comes – say you come out of the gate and another horse
kind of gets
in front of you a little bit, is that bad for your horse?
Yeah, because then you have to regroup.
You have to check your horse.
Now you have to weigh whatever that horse in front of you is going to do,
and then you hope in the – after that, then you get to do, you know, your
strategy or basically choose plan B or plan C, you know.
Now you're there.
Now choose what you do, you know.
You chose to stay there or you chose to go around that horse in front of you.
It's just a lot of – like you have to adjust in the moment.
Is there a moment there's a horse here that's in the back, and he's only in the
back by about three lengths it looks like.
And is that right, you think?
How many lengths has he been in the back?
Yeah, he's probably like around six, seven lengths behind.
Okay.
So my length math is what he used to be.
I was just trying to sound like I knew what I was saying.
So he's about six or seven lengths back.
Yeah, he is.
Does that horse – he still has a chance to win, though, huh?
Of course.
Yeah, no, of course he has.
Unless that horse's strategy or was to going to the front, you know.
Oh, was to going to the front.
If that was the case, then he's totally screwed.
Okay.
He's like not liking his chances right now.
And the jockey's realizing at that point, oh, this is probably just not going
to be the day.
This is not going to be good, yeah.
Okay.
Okay, cool.
Let's keep it cruising, then.
And where are you at right here?
On the outside.
Oh, there you are cruising, huh?
Yeah.
You're kind of in the middle right now, right?
Is that your purple helmet?
Yeah, the purple helmet.
I'm in the middle.
I'm going to bounce a little bit.
I think there's some gas in it, huh?
Yeah.
Okay, so you have turns here.
Like, how much turns do you have?
Two.
Two turns.
So you have this one and then coming out of it?
Yeah.
Now, what do you do during the turns, man?
Well, you try to save as much.
I hate turns.
Yeah?
Yeah, because you can't do much.
Like, even if you're playing a racing game or something, like on the turns, you're
like,
Yeah, it's slow down a little bit.
Yeah, you just have to, like, be in the turn.
There's not, you can't.
I feel like it's hard to use strategy.
Yeah, no, you have to.
You just have to help your horse to take the turn the best way possible, you
know?
And then, like, set up your coming out of this first turn because you're going
to get a stretch again, you know?
Okay.
And then line up to get the second, the last turn, you know?
Okay.
Okay, let's keep it cruising here.
The rail will take charge Indy as they move into the turn.
And then it's Daddy Knows Best on the far outside liaison, creative cause,
optimizer along the rail.
Now, did you feel like you had a chance in this race right here?
What were you feeling like?
I did that I have a chance because this is a horse that I, like, I was, I got
very familiar with him before going to the Kentucky Derby.
And you have to understand, like, this never happened to, this never happens to
nobody.
All of a sudden, a kid coming from a C racetrack or D racetrack, you know?
Like, and all of a sudden, he is in the Kentucky Derby.
First of all, it was a lot of doubts.
It's like, you know, like, well, does he even have it?
You know, is it really that?
Can he be good enough to be in this type of race?
Right, does he even have his adult teeth?
There are a lot of people who are wondering, you know, like, a lot of, yeah.
Oh, they're probably thinking, oh, he's totally going to melt down, you know,
or things like that.
Oh, the pressure.
Oh, the pressure and all these things.
Was there a lot of pressure?
No.
No, I, I'm very lucky that I don't, the pressure, I, I'm very good under
pressure, you know?
And I couldn't, I couldn't, like, commute.
And you're in fourth right here?
Yeah, I'm in fourth right now.
So this is the second turn?
This is the second turn.
Wow.
I thought I was going to finish second.
Because if you see that horse in the, in front, it's, like, super, super in
front of me.
Oh, totally.
And then, but my horse still has some guys, so I'm thinking, like, oh, my God,
you know,
I'm going to finish second in the Kentucky Derby.
I was pumped, you know?
I was so pumped.
Okay, stop it right here.
Stop it right here.
Okay, what do you do on the horse here?
So you have, now you all, we also have, I just want to show this here.
This is called a what?
Whip, crop.
Okay, whip or crop.
And then we have your helmet here.
Okay.
And so that's pretty light.
Everybody wears kind of the same type of helmet?
Yeah.
Okay.
Do you, now at this point, how much times can you whip the horse as much as you
want?
This, yeah, but a lot of rules have changed now.
Now we're not allowed, you know?
But I'm never, like, known to hit my horses a lot, you know?
So if you see here, like, I hit once and then you push your horse, you know,
you had to
give him a chance to respond, you know?
But back in 2012, there wasn't, like, a restriction of how many times you can
whip a horse.
It wasn't.
It's like a stepdad out there.
If you weren't, yeah, you could have gone, like, ta-ta, like, you know, but.
Does the horse, does it hurt the horse much?
It doesn't.
What do you think?
Well, it depends.
I think back in the days, it used to.
If I show you one of the whips that they used to use, the old timers, you know?
Really?
That used to use some serious, huh?
Yeah.
Yeah, that's interesting.
It's not as, like, I mean, if this were lead, it would be tough.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay, so here we go.
Let's go through this, man.
This is crazy.
So what is your strategy right here?
Like, do you have any?
Well, no, that's, like, as soon as you go to the last stretch, that's just,
like, try
to go as far, like, try to ask your horse to finish, like, to give you the best.
Are you yelling at the horse, too, verbally?
What do you say?
Ah, come on.
Come on, yeah, come on.
Has won the Kentucky Derby!
Oh, my God, so cool.
And that was Bodemeister Dullahan and went the day well.
You must have been.
I was already crying there, like, a little bit.
Wow.
Look at this, yeah.
Doug O'Neill accepting the hugs all around.
Oh, man, that must have been awesome.
Yeah, that was so cool.
Yeah.
Then, uh, well, I guess, like, you know, like you say, that's, like, our Super
Bowl, you
know, like, so my whole life, I was 24 years old, I think, most of my whole
life, like,
just flash in front of me, you know, thinking that maybe this is why I don't
watch this replay,
because then I get emotional a little bit.
Dude, I'm emotional.
I wasn't even in it.
I mean, I've done steroids, but that's the closest I've come.
I used to do them in high school.
That's the closest I've come to being in the Kentucky Derby.
I'm watching the race here with you.
I understand why I don't watch the race a lot.
Oh, I'm sorry, man.
But it's really exciting.
I think, also, it's a way to kind of channel what, just that it's even a
possibility for
people, you know?
Of course, yeah.
It's inspiring, like, if there's young men out there who think about being jockeys,
young
Latino men out there.
We have a good Latino audience who think about being jockeys, or it's
interesting, or they
might have a kid who's, like, more of a petite-sized kid, and, like, what could
I get
my kid into, you know, when you don't think that, man, it's really almost the
last thing
you think about.
Probably, yeah.
I feel like it's either hide-and-go-seek or being a jockey.
I feel like if you're kind of more petite-sized, you know?
Hope you enjoyed that video, and you can watch another, and you can watch this
one, you can
watch this one.
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Some guy just brings you one option, not this guy.
Two options.
Watch one.
This one or this one.
Thank you.