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The Friday Show Presented By Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance: The Gold Standard

Al Gold’s Cyberknife and Florent Geroux winning the Grade 1 Haskell at Monmouth Park

What does a surgical instrument used to treat cancer  have in common with TV shows like “Seinfeld,” “Frasier,” “The Odd Couple,” and “Peter Gunn,” or with the Grateful Dead band, the late turf writer Bill Handleman, or baseball star Cleon Jones of the 1969 Miracle Mets?

All have been the inspiration for Thoroughbred names given to his horses by Al Gold.

The most famous of them is Cyberknife the two-time Grade 1 winner in 2022, who makes one final career start in Saturday's $3-million, Grade 1 Pegasus World Cup at Gulfstream Park before going off to stud at Spendthrift Farm. The  Gun Runner colt is named for the instrument doctors used to treat Gold's prostate cancer several years ago and he wanted to raise awareness of its effectiveness

Gold is this week's guest on the Friday Show, joining Ray Paulick and bloodstock editor Joe Nevills to talk about the thrills he's had with Cyberknife, his up-and-coming 3-year-old colt Instant Coffee (winner of the Grade 3 Lecomte Stakes Jan. 21), the bloodstock team he's assembled, and the fun he's had naming some of the horses in his stable.

Watch this week's episode of the Friday Show below:

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