Derby Blogs

I stood in the Kentucky Derby Museum last night about an hour after Street Sense crossed the wire. That's where the Winners' Party is held. On the big TV screen, they were showing the replay of the race over and over again, and the replay included the blimp shot that NBC showed in its telecast. I watched the replay about 30 times, and I can tell you exactly what every horse did in the race.

Street Sense looked awesome this week. He trained awesomely. He won awesomely.

Rewrite the rule book.

Or better yet, toss it in the trash.

It's all over but the shoutin'.

So I passed a metal detector and went up to the sixth floor balcony next to the press box, above the Twin Spires, to watch the eighth race.

Here's my ticket for the $1 million guaranteed Derby Day Pick 4:

Race 7 – The La Troienne

We still have a good four hours of betting ahead of us, but the tote board is starting to make a little more "sense".

Get it? Sense. Like in "Street Sense."

Well, so far so good.

One of the perks of staying at a Louisville hotel during Derby Weekend is the assortment of "party favors" that the hotel staff places in your room on Derby Eve.

So it is now Derby morning and I’m going to do this blog thing one more time.

I’ll go down on record with a Derby pick – actually picks – so anyone who wants to tell me “I told you so” or “Oy! What a dummy!” will have a chance to do so.

I’d also like to leave a thought or two behind in the run up to this very entertaining Run for the Roses: