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BETTING ON THE 2007 KENTUCKY DERBY (Article Can Be Found At Our Sister Site
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Churchill
Downs, inside betting secrets, and
smoking pot in the infield, all part
of the Kentucky Derby, America’s
last pure sporting event...
It is the last pure sporting event
in America.
The
Kentucky Derby is a big-time show
in a small-town venue, a wonderful,
old-school sporting competition unsullied
by salary caps or corporate takeovers.
It is as striking as the legendary
twin spires at Churchill Downs and
as refreshing as a 40-to-1 shot.
There are no greasy agents lurking
outside the Louisville track’s
133-year-old gates, no seedings from
some crazy brackets necessary to
determine the competitors, and no
spoiled superstars asking to have
their contracts renegotiated afterwards.
Some
36,000 rickety-legged horses are
foaled every year and all of them
are immediately eligible for this,
the world’s
most famous horse race. But three
years later, only a sturdy 17 to
20 ever make it to the first Saturday
in May.
Unlike
the Super Bowl or World Series, anybody
can walk up and buy a ticket on Derby
Day. Once inside, along with 140,000
fellow fans, you are free to view
the whole social strata of America:
From the college kids smoking pot and
ogling the wet T-shirt contests in
the crowded infield, to the $10 and
$20-betting middleclass in the grandstands,
to the suave guests along Millionaire’s
Row, where the men coolly sit in their
Armani suits, while the women proudly
parade by in expensive dresses topped
off by large, frilly hats that take
you back to another era in the South. CLICK
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