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Rob Miracle Beds… You jump on them as kids. You sleep on them and well, um you… Race them of coarse. One of the more fun things that Kentuckians race is beds. There are two phases of the competition: the style and the speed. During the style phase, the teams assemble costumes and decorate the beds based … Read more
Well mostly…. The original good weather plan was to travel about 60 miles down I64 to Lexington and tour Keeneland race track and several horse farms and pick up some Pizza Pie at Joe B’s in Lexington. Well that got washed. Instead we took my mother-in-law computer shopping. Time for her old Dell desktop with … Read more
One of the best things about college is the friendships you can make. While this represents our 30 year college reunion year, our “family” stays in touch even though we are spread out to the four winds. One of our friends, Lindi, lives on a small 5 acre farm just northwest of Indianapolis, another town … Read more
It’s opening night for the 2014 spring meet at Churchill Downs. Ten races on the schedule starting in the afternoon. During the normal meet going to the track would feel like going to a minor league baseball game but kicking off Kentucky Derby week makes it more like a big production. Sky divers, pyrotechnics, street … Read more
Man are we beat…. After being up for last night’s balloon glow, we only got about 5 hours of sleep before we were up checking the weather before heading out to the 2014 Kentucky Derby Festival Great Balloon Race. After getting up early yesterday and a long 10 hour drive, a nap is in order … Read more
A long standing tradition in the Kentucky Derby Festival is the Great Balloon Race, held the Saturday before the Kentucky Derby. Hot air balloons from around the country gather to race. But a precursor to the race is the Balloon Glow, held the night before. It’s a practice run for tomorrow’s launch and a great … Read more
The alarm went off too early this morning. We had to depart at 5:00am to hit my home town of Stanford, Kentucky for a lunch meetup with my sisters that I’ve not seen in a couple of years. Our goal was to roll into my homestead around 1pm. The trip was going really well. The … Read more
It seems like it wasn’t that long ago when my wife and I departed our residence in North Carolina to return to our childhood home in Kentucky for a vacation and to enjoy the annual build up to the Kentucky Derby. That trip however, was five years ago. You can’t keep a home sick Kentucky … Read more
Nine days ago we packed our bags and loaded up our Expedition for the long ten-hour drive from our home in North Carolina to our native home of Kentucky. It was a trip we had not made in several years. We picked this week specifically because it was the main week of the Kentucky Derby … Read more
And bums a photographer. Papa Clem works at Churchill Downs prior to the 135th Kentucky Derby I got to see three Kentucky Derby horses work this week and got photos I was happy with of I Want Revenge. Early this morning, I Want Revenge kicked his stall and as a safety measure, his trainer decided … Read more