Home› All Encompassing Trip

Kentucky Derby

sigh eternallysigh eternally Chicago Posts: 421
edited April 2008 in All Encompassing Trip
Has anyone here ever been or know what the atmosphere to this shindig is like? I plan on betting on the horsies there next month.
well, that and getting tanked on mint juleps and shots of woodford reserve whiskey.
Post edited by Unknown User on

Comments

  • binauralsoundsbinauralsounds Posts: 1,357
    sigh eternally wrote:
    Has anyone here ever been or know what the atmosphere to this shindig is like? I plan on betting on the horsies there next month.
    well, that and getting tanked on mint juleps and shots of woodford reserve whiskey.

    I went many years ago. Infield is a hell of a time. Basically mardi gras on grass:)

    Yes, im one who lives in louisville and only been to one derby. lol

    You'll love it!

    Sneak in the booze, and bring your beads:)
  • sigh eternallysigh eternally Chicago Posts: 421
    Infield is general admission, right?

    I plan on not remembering that day, unless my horse wins.
  • PJ_SalukiPJ_Saluki Posts: 1,006
    Infield is general admission. Last time I was there I think it was something like $40. Drinks are pricey. You get a souvenir glass with the mint julep. You can bring in blankets, tarps, and chairs. They search the hell out of people (or, at least they did in the first two years after 9/11). If you don't already have a hotel room and you need one you're shit outta luck most likely. Oh, and you won't even remember the big race whether your horse wins or not. It's the final race of the day. If you get there around 10 or 11 a.m. that means you'll have multiple hours of power drinking on top of the hangover from last night's festivities. Great time, kind of expensive, but worth going at least once just to hear the roar of 140,000 people when they open the gate's in the final race.
    "Almost all those politicians took money from Enron, and there they are holding hearings. That's like O.J. Simpson getting in the Rae Carruth jury pool." -- Charles Barkley
  • BetterThanYouBetterThanYou Posts: 853
    what's the date for this years derby?
    "Have you ever.........pooped a balloon?"
    ~D.K.S.
  • BetterThanYouBetterThanYou Posts: 853
    AtPeacew/MyLust wrote:
    It is May 3rd.

    motherfuck. it's like the same story for me this summer. something i want to do......can't because something else is planned already.
    "Have you ever.........pooped a balloon?"
    ~D.K.S.
  • PJPixiePJPixie Posts: 3,026
    Sounds like a good time. I know how much fun it is at the casino's in Vegas...I can imagine what a blast it would be like to REALLY be there!
    Have fun sigh!
    The best use of Life is Love.
    The best expression of Love is Time.
    The best time to Love is Now.


    I'm never as good as when you're there.........
  • in_hiding79in_hiding79 Posts: 4,315
    I will be the one wearing the HAT!! ;)
    And so the lion fell in love with the lamb...,"
    "What a stupid lamb."
    "What a sick, masochistic lion."
  • the wolfthe wolf Posts: 7,027
    in_hiding79 wrote:
    I will be the one in the HAT!! ;)

    ill be the one pasing out the beads : )
    Peace, Love.

    "To question your government is not unpatriotic --
    to not question your government is unpatriotic."
    -- Sen. Chuck Hagel
  • Indian SummerIndian Summer Posts: 2,296
    PJ_Saluki wrote:
    It's the final race of the day.


    Incorrect. Although most don't give two shits about anything after that race, there is actually a race (maybe 2) after the actual derby race.
    "It's all happening"
Sign In or Register to comment.