Really, REALLY looking forward to this...

[Travis Stone]

I'm surprised there hasn't been an incident with a race and some drunken folks. I know they have fencing up, but at the Preakness a while back, not only did someone run out onto the track, but someone also threw something from the infield at the horses going down the backside.

[TheSpyder]

MP's with guns every 25 yards against the fence...would be pretty hard to jump over and take them on. Especially if drunk.

Originally Posted by Travis Stone

I'm surprised there hasn't been an incident with a race and some drunken folks. I know they have fencing up, but at the Preakness a while back, not only did someone run out onto the track, but someone also threw something from the infield at the horses going down the backside.

[slotdirt]

This stuff is amateur. Go search 'Preakness' on youtube and see what you find.

[-BT-]

Originally Posted by TheSpyder

MP's with guns every 25 yards against the fence...would be pretty hard to jump over and take them on. Especially if drunk.

About 4 years ago when it rained pretty much the entire day, and also the tornado that came through 40 min. prior to the derby there was a big mud fight. It was when millionaires row was being re-modeled and they had all the yupity yups caged off via chain link fence in the infield, finally people just got fed up having to walk around that area so when ever they opened the gate for people to come in and out of millionaires row people started throwing mud all over these millionaires row people with there high priced suits and thousand dollar hats, it went on for a little while until MP's came in and shut it down.

I also agree, the infield in Baltimore is a lot dirtier, any time you let people bring in full trash cans of beer you should expect the worse. Last year’s porto-poddy runs were pretty intense. People would try and run on the roof of like 20+ porto-poddy’s while the crowd tossed full cans of beer at them trying to knock them off. Beers were being tossed around like grenades by days end

[IrishofNDMan]

Originally Posted by -BT-

About 4 years ago when it rained pretty much the entire day, and also the tornado that came through 40 min. prior to the derby there was a big mud fight. It was when millionaires row was being re-modeled and they had all the yupity yups caged off via chain link fence in the infield, finally people just got fed up having to walk around that area so when ever they opened the gate for people to come in and out of millionaires row people started throwing mud all over these millionaires row people with there high priced suits and thousand dollar hats, it went on for a little while until MP's came in and shut it down.

I also agree, the infield in Baltimore is a lot dirtier, any time you let people bring in full trash cans of beer you should expect the worse. Last year’s porto-poddy runs were pretty intense. People would try and run on the roof of like 20+ porto-poddy’s while the crowd tossed full cans of beer at them trying to knock them off. Beers were being tossed around like grenades by days end

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n8xM...eature=related

[slotdirt]

Meredith from "The Office" was on my flight the morning after the Derby last year. Exciting stuff.