151st Kentucky Derby

[SSGT.]

Got our invitations from NTRA for derby week today, and we're stoked.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Haven't been for over 30 years but it was always enjoyable.

 

[SSGT.]

I was asked to be on The National Thoroughbred Racing Association Medical Staff in Texas and we've been able to go to the Derby and Belmont for the past eight years. If you're a people watcher there is no better place to do it than a big horse race. Well stock car racing fans run a close 2nd, but those are my people horse racing is a different, yet the same crowd.

 

[anthonyrosenthal74]

I was asked to be on The National Thoroughbred Racing Association Medical Staff in Texas and we've been able to go to the Derby and Belmont for the past eight years. If you're a people watcher there is no better place to do it than a big horse race. Well stock car racing fans run a close 2nd, but those are my people horse racing is a different, yet the same crowd.

Except at the NASCAR races the ladies trade in thier tent sized feathery and flowery hats for a black trucker hat with the number "3."

 

[bluegrassbrian]

As a lifelong denizen of the Derby City, you will not find me there.

Oaks is for us..
There's nothing quite like watching classy, immaculately dressed women get shitfaced and act like teens on Spring Break.

 

[SSGT.]

Oaks is for us..

We get there on the Saturday before the Derby, this year April 26. It's a working vacation for me throughout the week of racing there will be many hours of monitoring horses and testing for doping and a week of horse racing for the family. So, we're there for the whole week and I agree Friday's running of the Oaks is always a goodtime

This will be the first year for my daughter, who got her veterinary license two years ago to work alongside dad. While Grandma spoils the grandkids with all the goodies she can find.

 

[bluegrassbrian]

We get there on the Saturday before the Derby, this year April 26. It's a working vacation for me throughout the week of racing there will be many hours of monitoring horses and testing for doping and a week of horse racing for the family. So, we're there for the whole week and I agree Friday's running of the Oaks is always a goodtime

This will be the first year for my daughter, who got her veterinary license two years ago to work alongside dad. While Grandma spoils the grandkids with all the goodies she can find.

I tell ya.. back when I started in college I contemplated going in to equine study/management. I never had a LOT of horse experience, but thought it could be fun.
Ended up going in a different direction..