2024 galloping Triple Crown thread

Kentucky Derby draw is done. Ladies and gentlemen, start your horses!

Kentucky Derby Post Draw 2024: Contenders, Dark Horses with Best Odds | News, Scores, Highlights, Stats, and Rumors | Bleacher Report

 

Domestic Product sounds pretty gross to me.

 

I know nothing about the horses, but the names are great.

Take Mystik Dan to take it all. Just a hunch.

 

I saw a (short) commercial about it this week. Without it, I wouldn’t have known the race was this Saturday. I probably haven’t watched it live in years.

I doubt I’m alone.

 

Fierceness is in a bad PP. Chasing Freedom will get hammered down in the odds as people make political statements via $2 bets. If Honor Marie gets a good trip, I expect it'll hit the board.

 

Happy Derby Day to y’all. May your mint julep be strong and your trifecta cash.

 

Pat Forde with a tribute to the Derby at 150.

Kentucky Derby at 150: The Powerful Force of an Immovable American Sports Tradition

 

Better that than Domestic Byproduct.

 

Thank you, @garrow. I'm glad someone got the joke!

 

A five-hour NBC promo for a two-minute race. What a country!

Seriously, pretty damn cool for a sports event in the United States to be doing 150 of anything. With the inaugural running in 1875, it predates by one month the first college football game played under rules that have evolved into today's game. That July, Alexander Graham Bell called Thomas Watson to ask who beat.

Its also older than the formation of the National League by one year. The U.S. Open (tennis) started six years later and U.S. Open (golf) is a relative upstart, dating to 1895.

 

At one stop, had one photog who was shocked to hear the lyric "the people are gay" ... until I told him the original lyric.