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Title: Kentucky Derby day
Post by: Rash on May 07, 2011, 06:27:26 AM

Spring is here, and little did they know what a horse was going to win in 73.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyqllleV6WA

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The movie version.  If you go to the races. get up against the rail in last 100 yards or so.  It sounds a lot like the movie clip.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyqllleV6WA

Title: Re: Kentucky Derby day
Post by: ROX on May 07, 2011, 12:34:33 PM

Ran a "racino" (casino inside a racetrack) for a few years and one of the perks was an employees only area not only on the infield (semi-secret underground tunnel) and then again near the final pole.  Didn't matter if it was a simple early season race or the Derby, it was pretty cool to hear those horses thunder by.  I'd take new employees who have never even seen a race and take them down there right at the track's edge...their reaction was most always =  :x

It's the entire atmosphere as well...massive roast beef sandwiches and Rueben's the size of your head...salted peanuts....cold beer...mudddy faced jockeys walking back to the dressing rooms...non-winning tickets tossed in the air...discarded racing sheets all over the ground (the clean-up crews used suped up leaf blowers) and placing a few bucks on the longshots on a rainy/muddy day.   :cheers:

Title: Re: Kentucky Derby day
Post by: fbWldcat on May 07, 2011, 12:38:51 PM

There is always a special buzz around Kentucky on Derby Day. Rox has it right. There's nothign quite like it.  :aok

Title: Re: Kentucky Derby day
Post by: Rash on May 07, 2011, 02:39:13 PM

Sounds like fun Rox.   :x    That mud does fly, and some horses not to fond of it in their face.  Quarter horses really sling the mud.

My sister had a few race horses.  Two actually made money, and one of those was an ok stakes racer, but got hurt.  She had a lot more losers.

Noticed I had the wrong link for the movie version of Big Reds derby.  This is how it sounds close to the track.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xabXrwKuy4k&feature=related

Title: Re: Kentucky Derby day
Post by: Rash on May 07, 2011, 05:10:16 PM

I can't make a living at this, but dialed in looks quick.

Title: Re: Kentucky Derby day
Post by: icepac on May 07, 2011, 07:50:06 PM

The cougar quotient is unbelievably high at the derby as well as at Foxfield steeplechases the same day.

Title: Re: Kentucky Derby day
Post by: EagleDNY on May 09, 2011, 06:58:39 PM

Nothing quite like Derby day (or Preakness day if you folks are near Baltimore in a couple of weeks...)