As long as you don't plan on going to the paddock. :D

>>>Preakness visitors to Baltimore might especially enjoy the big highway billboard that shows a pasty-faced guy with shades, a headband, a tank top and a walrus mustache — he looks like a cross between Richard Simmons and a 1970s porn star — saying, "I Get My Preak on for Eight Straight Hours."<<<

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The radio campaign highlights a young stud talking about mixing it up with the elderly in a retirement village. He spouts, "How could I resist, especially considering this might be her last chance? I was a little concerned with how her hip would hold up, knowing we'd be at it all day."

http://msn.foxsports.com/horseracing...ign-?GT1=39002

Say what you want - good publicity, bad publicity, it's all about publicity and that's just what Preakness 2010 needs!!!!!!

BTW - Tom Chuckas is one of the most disingenous people I've ever seen in my life. It's the ferret-like face and eyes that give me the creeps......

It's a drunk fest, brings in new players theme
 

I heard it all now, Pim bringing in all you can drink kids and betting on them to become players down the road. What about all the under age drinkers? Them too? I can see this as a desperate move to advertise the sport, but binge drinking is not a Sport of Kings. Yea yea, all the college's around love it. I think it brings the sport down a notch. How much puke does it take to become a horse player. TONS!! Did it ever come to mind that while they are catering to beer chuggers, the real group of players get squat. How about investing in new tech, racing is only behind about 2 light years.

They're more concerned with the revenue they lost last year.

This is a pure money grab

and Arlington does body cavity searches every racing day!

They need to put guns and ammo in the infield and a bulletproof dome over it.

The infield was basically an open field at Pimlico last year. I understand why they're trying to make up for a 30k plus drop in infield attendance last year.

Sport of Kings is = to the King of beers?

Exactly. Keeping the college kids away means nil chance of them really becoming interested in the sport somewhere down the road. If you can bank an extra few million in the process, good for Pimlico.

Everyone needs to get off the high horse and quit worrying about the new slogan and this promo designed to let college kids have a good time. Not everyone wants to dress up and pretend to be important.

santa anita back in the mid eighties you could bring your own in the infield......the 2004 belmont was insane, i saw a guy with 7 cases stacked on a wagon going thru the turnstiles.

This isn't about college kids having a good time, never was. But when things suck, try anything method. Now the 2nd jewel in racing has stuped to a beer fest to make money, and think this promotes real racing fans. lol

Was he from Philly? That was the Smarty Jones year.

Oh, and will there be more "running of the urinals" footage this year @ Pimlico?

I don't get it. Have you been to a Preakness other than last year's? They want to rekindle the party atmosphere in the infield that has existed for DECADES. They're not trying to create some new misadventure and 'debaucherous' scene... They're hoping to bring back the one that always existed until last year's ill-advised 'crackdown'.

My first racetrack experiences as an adult was in the Preakness infield 1984-89. It helped fuel my interest in the game. I'm sure I'm the ONLY person that ever got interested in the sport that way though.

Between the 3 big race days of the Triple Crown, there is something for everyone. I have no problem with the party atmosphere. Belmont Day is the one that is more about horses if you ask me.

the preakness has ALWAYS been a beer fest except for last year. I would bet that a lot of people in the B-more area think of a party when they hear "Preakness" and not a horse race.

I think folks are overestimating the value in this all-you-can-drink package they'll be selling at Preakness this year. Granted, if MJC can get another 30k or so to pack into the field than they did last year when attendance was miserable and ZZ Top played to crickets, they'll make out well on gate alone, but the new policy sells a mug for $20 and lets you fill it up as many times as you'd like while last year beers were a scant $2. I'd say the average Preakness goer consumes roughly ten beers during their time at the track this Saturday, so really the only difference this year is that more folks are going to go because it's an all-you-can-drink event and not a la carte.

That rambled, but hopefully, someone understands what I'm trying to say.

.....yeah, the palce was like a war zone afterwards. i should post some pix.