Virtual Kentucky Derby = NBC 5/2

[DonGuido]

Originally Posted by JolyB

Entries are now open for the Triple Crown Showdown, in which you get to pick the winner of a virtual race between all 13 triple crown winners for a chance to be entered in a drawing to win what CD describes as the "ultimate Kentucky Derby experience." The full scope of the single rand prize is worth reading.

At the same time you will be asked to donate to support COVID-19 relief. It is also possible to enter without making a donation.

Here is the link:
https://www.kentuckyderby.com/

I just entered and Picked . . . Citation 4-1. After all he only lost one race to some horse by the name of Saggy. After that, he never lost against MUCH better company, winning 16 in a row and the first horse to win a $million or more. This was in the late '40s early '50s. Who the HECK was Saggy???

A neat story and basically why Patty is a freaking thoroughbred savant and lover. Her family of 6 Irish Catholic kids, she's the oldest, took a trip to Cincinnati in the early 50's to visit relatives and she talked her dad into taking a side trip to Kentucky on their way back to Binghamton, NY. They stopped at Calumet, for some reason, on a beautiful sunny day and along fence lines as horses ran in the field a number of them came over to the kids holding handfuls of grass in their hands. One horse was much bigger and more beautiful than all the rest but seemed to be ignored by the young Foley kids. Patty saw him and walked over to feed him with a big clump of grass feeding him and rubbing his nose. She didn't stay too long since Jack, their dad was hollering at them from the car window "Let's go we gotta get back home, get in the car!"

She very reluctantly walked to the car looking back at the beautiful specimen that gave her goosebumps and filled her face with a smile. He was shaking his head and neck around as if to say and talking to her, as most horses do in they want something, "hey cute little girl where ya going so soon, c'mon back, stay here, don't you know who I am? I'm Citation! She tells this special adventure often to those who have never heard before and some that have. Each time it's a little different so I took a little "poetic" license adding my interpretation as to how it makes me feel every time I hear it and see her smiling face like it had just happened yesterday.