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i see nothing about the Derby tomorrow. No interest?

My only interest is in getting free alcohol at a Derby party.

Some horse I never heard of won.

I could say that for pretty much every horse race ever.

Leroy wrote:I could say that for pretty much every horse race ever.

To be honest, I felt very Leroy-like typing that.

lukethedrifter wrote:Some horse I never heard of won.

The last victory he had before the Derby was at my hometown track - Turfway Park

One of my bosses at my little bistro is a very quiet, business-like, nose-to-the-grindstone kind of managers. Doesn't seem to care at all about sports, gets upset if he sees one of the waiters even peeking over at the bar's TVs for baseball or basketball updates, etc.

Anyway, apparently he's a huge horseracing nut. Had an extra 40" LCD hooked up on our patio, turned every screen we have onto the pre-race stuff. I've never seen any of these TVs actually being used other than this, apparently the only time other people remember this is Iowa football season, as we're directly next to the stadium. Otherwise it's one TV at the bar, and jazz music piping through the rest of the place. He even brought a bag of mint leaves and excitedly told us to push mint juleps to our tables and bar customers. And, most importantly, we were 'allowed' to watch the race itself, but not ignore our customers otherwise.

Well, we had two guys come in and sit at the bar for the Derby (and ordered Templeton, not juleps), and not a single other table came in. It was kind of surreal how this guy thought the Derby was going to create this big pop. I honestly felt kind of bad for the guy.

A friend has an annual Derby Day party where everyone places bets, even the kids. I was working so I missed it but apparently the younguns cashed in as every child bet Animal Kingdom to win. Since none of the adults did there were kids flashing rolls of $40 and $80- in 5s and 1s. Woo hoo.