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re: Any of you guys ever been to the Kentucky Derby?
Posted on 4/21/26 at 9:44 pm to SuperSaint
Posted on 4/21/26 at 9:44 pm to SuperSaint
Potente can’t lose
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Posted on 4/21/26 at 9:47 pm to BluegrassBelle
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plan to hit dinner after the track at most quality places you’ll need a reservation
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chicken tendies and chandeliers
When did kfc start taking reservations?
Posted on 4/21/26 at 9:52 pm to BluegrassBelle
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dinner after the track at most quality places
Walkons.
Posted on 4/21/26 at 10:02 pm to Deep Purple Haze
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Walkons
There’s randomly one in Clarksville, Indiana (just across the river)
Posted on 4/21/26 at 11:20 pm to Truama_dawg
Yes, get a box with a group and be prepared to spend $15k. If you want to run on top of port o lets and have beer cans thrown at you, go to the Preakness and save money.
Posted on 4/21/26 at 11:58 pm to Jim Rockford
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OTers at tDerby
I did this a few years ago on a Bachelor party. I was doing the throwing.
The infield was a mud pit, but we got to see that replacement horse win.
This post was edited on 4/21/26 at 11:59 pm
Posted on 4/22/26 at 12:04 am to 4WHLN
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The Horse in the 17th Post has never won the race. So don’t bet on that one.
Ye olde Gambler's Fallacy
Posted on 4/22/26 at 3:21 am to Truama_dawg
Go at least twice in your life
First, when you are young and do the infield. A stranger picture in time of the youth in America will not be found.
Second, when you are old and can go first class.
Some thoughts ...
When I wore a younger mans clothes, you could find me in the boxes at the finish line on the 3rd floor. Got you outdoors and right in the action.
Locals used to go the day before to avoid the crowds, and watch the Ladies big race, Now I think they go on Thursday.
A local youth from my youth made good and he wrote about it, well worth the read. Background courtesy of Wik. For article, mash here. A dad gum novel by todays Twatter set, but a primer to the crazies you used to encounter.
Personally I could spend the day in the parking lot where the real money folks have their personal cars and their personal drivers. In my youth I would spend the day on the other side of the track with some of the best collection of black and white gypsies to spend time with. That changed in the 80's when the native Mericans thought those jobs beneath them and the Brown Mafia took over.
Avoid the Mint Juliep they serve today, it is a grotesque zombie of the actual drink and the souvenir glass they sell it in now is easier to shatter (probably comes from China now and full of lead).
Check it off your Bucket List and get as much of the experience as you can.
Enjoy
First, when you are young and do the infield. A stranger picture in time of the youth in America will not be found.
Second, when you are old and can go first class.
Some thoughts ...
When I wore a younger mans clothes, you could find me in the boxes at the finish line on the 3rd floor. Got you outdoors and right in the action.
Locals used to go the day before to avoid the crowds, and watch the Ladies big race, Now I think they go on Thursday.
A local youth from my youth made good and he wrote about it, well worth the read. Background courtesy of Wik. For article, mash here. A dad gum novel by todays Twatter set, but a primer to the crazies you used to encounter.
Personally I could spend the day in the parking lot where the real money folks have their personal cars and their personal drivers. In my youth I would spend the day on the other side of the track with some of the best collection of black and white gypsies to spend time with. That changed in the 80's when the native Mericans thought those jobs beneath them and the Brown Mafia took over.
Avoid the Mint Juliep they serve today, it is a grotesque zombie of the actual drink and the souvenir glass they sell it in now is easier to shatter (probably comes from China now and full of lead).
Check it off your Bucket List and get as much of the experience as you can.
Enjoy
Posted on 4/22/26 at 3:25 am to Bullfrog
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VV fancy.
That would be the Royal Enclosure at Ascot
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It black tails and top hat only
I miss those days, probably last in seen in the 50's and 60's
Best Derby parties were in Lexington, then the Double Mint Twins took the next generation to Louisville. They should be fossils like me so not sure if that is still the "hot" party in town.
Posted on 4/22/26 at 3:31 am to Winston Cup
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When did kfc start taking reservations?
Not sure what Derby Week is like, but if you want the taste closer to the original Kentucky Fried Chicken, this is well worth the trip.
Have not been there since c19, but was awesome before.
Posted on 4/22/26 at 3:45 am to Cheese Grits
Fri night, go to the galt house bar... u will see many insiders and sports/ celebrity types. It will be 3 deep trying to get a drink. & its not fancy. Ubers/Taxi's will completely rape u for rides. typical 3 mile drop off, $100 min
Posted on 4/22/26 at 4:42 am to Truama_dawg
I have been once back when it was still a gentile social event. Now the poors have made it a drunk fest and I have no interest of going again.
Posted on 4/22/26 at 5:12 am to Truama_dawg
Good luck. It will be a zoo. Churchill Downs is large, but it's got neighborhoods all around it, so there are no open spaces except the track.
Posted on 4/22/26 at 5:14 am to Truama_dawg
About 25 years ago I was building playgrounds for Mc Donalds. We were in Kentucky at the time of the derby.
The owner of the Mickey D’s asked us if we wanted tickets. We took them and went.
Infield tickets. Was basically a talladega nascar crowd. Running across port- a- cans. Good party.
I watch now and that’s not the party I remember at all. Maybe they cleaned it up a lot in the infield.
The owner of the Mickey D’s asked us if we wanted tickets. We took them and went.
Infield tickets. Was basically a talladega nascar crowd. Running across port- a- cans. Good party.
I watch now and that’s not the party I remember at all. Maybe they cleaned it up a lot in the infield.
Posted on 4/22/26 at 5:56 am to Shut Up Mulllet
The Hot Brown is over rated. Order something else
Posted on 4/22/26 at 6:04 am to Truama_dawg
Get ready to wait in line for drinks and food. They are pricing the regular folks out. It's nothing but a corporate event. Its all inclusive, but the juice isn't worth the squeeze. I go to Keeneland for Oaks and Derby. They at least want you there, unlike Churchill.
Posted on 4/22/26 at 6:53 am to Truama_dawg
About 20 years ago. I was a guest of Hermes.
If you go, try to be the guest of someone cool.
If you go, try to be the guest of someone cool.
Posted on 4/22/26 at 7:03 am to Truama_dawg
No. But in Houston we had a Derby Party and decided it would start with a tasting of different Mint Julips because my mint patch had come into its own. I do not remember watching horses that day, but lots and lots of laughter and good friends.
Posted on 4/22/26 at 7:06 am to Truama_dawg
This post was edited on 4/22/26 at 7:08 am
Posted on 4/22/26 at 7:20 am to kywildcatfanone
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Churchill Downs is large, but it's got neighborhoods all around it, so there are no open spaces except the track.
The good news is after you get drunk at the track, you can just walk across the street in any direction and score some ghetto crack to sober up with.
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