I heard Pimlico was going to ban BYOB in the infield ther result was attendance would of been half normal years so they lifted the ban.
I survived the Preakness infield in 1989. It’s one of those things that I’m glad I did once, and just as glad that I’ll never do again. Tens of thousands of sloppy-drunk guys screaming at any woman in sight to take their clothes off, fighting in the porta-johns, running the pre-race band off the stage in a shower of beer bottles and cans, and generally acting about like you’d expect tens of thousands of sloppy-drunk guys to act.
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Oh yeah, and I think I saw horses for maybe two seconds out of the entire 11-race day.
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