The Kentucky Derby, the oldest constantly held main sporting occasion in the US, is celebrating its a hundred and fiftieth anniversary on Saturday with a brand new $200 million paddock and a number of security initiatives meant to curb the horse deaths that marred final yr’s occasion.
Revelers at Churchill Downs shall be sporting colourful hats and sipping $22 mint juleps from memento glasses underneath the dual spires that stand sentry over this cathedral of horse racing. From the primary Derby, received by Aristides in 1875, to this yr’s race, one fixed has remained.
When the announcer declares, “They usually’re off,” all concerned with getting the highest 3-year-old thoroughbreds within the nation into the beginning gate, from the homeowners to the trainers to the grooms, maintain their breath and hope their horse will cross the end line first.
