Do you have a favorite. Do you bet on the ponies.
Gotta pull for California Chrome.
Are you a Kentucky Derbie Fan
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LoisLane looking for Superman
I have cousins who go every year.
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jam
I'm sick. I wheeled the 5 horse to all except the 17, 7 and 8 horse.
A two dollar exacta. Stupid, stupid, stupid....California Chrome ran
a great race. An nice investment, $8,000.00 for a Kentucky Derbie
winner. To make a run for the Triple Crown, well we will see.....
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Heaven
I love the Kentucky Derby. Congrats to California Chrome.
I will never forget Secretariat. His Belmont Stakes win 'moving like a tremendous machine' is unequalled. Ronnie Turcotte never used the whip on Big Red in that race.
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Band on the Run
I love seeing the hats every year. If only I could attend with a cool hat. They are very expensive. The horses are a good feature. Oh, to wear a hat while drinking mint julep from a silver container. Compared to England, Americans have crummy hats.
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tiki
OHHHHHHHHH - I was so so sooooooooooo happy to see California Chrome take it!!! I loved the story - the humble beginnings and a couple guys who did it out of love for the animal. These ultra-wealthy breeders make it so impersonal - Pletcher, Baffert - they have a host of colts they can choose from - but this was a one shot deal and that boy took it! I liked the Wicked one too - probably because his winnings were going at least in part to the victims of last year's Boston marathon bombings..........and I still wish that woman jockey could get her Derby win.
It was a really great race though. Remember Barbaro? I still tear up when I think of that beautiful boy.........
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GLTirebiter
I loved the story - the humble beginnings and a couple guys who did it out of love for the animal.
Yes, the story reminds me of Seabiscuit: a horse nobody else believed in, a trainer who was "too old", from a California track the elite owners considered a backwater, and owners who were too foolish to listen to the "experts". Next up: Preakness!
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zed is dead
I love the owners' sense of humor. They call themselves DAP; for Dumb Ass Partners.
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designs
When they turned that final corner and headed into the home stretch California Chrome really accelerated away from the pack. Can't imagine what that must be like to ride a horse doing 40mph.
