Posted on 04/30/2021 4:33:59 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The Kentucky Derby is getting started. Enjoy it.
No question, we are in for some hard times these coming years. Not just with the malevolent creatures in the White House, but in so many areas of American life — from popular culture to sporting events. BLM zombies lurk from every corner of crazy, spreading their racist poison.
Thankfully, the first Saturday in May is coming up. Kentucky Derby horse racing is front and center. Churchill Downs is a decidedly No Woke Zone edifice, built for the Sport of Kings, featuring a vast Millionaire's Row complex and super-exclusive Skye Terrace, put up in 1969 for Gov. Reagan, Sen. Dirksen, and President Nixon's visit, though Nixon was savvy enough to spend some time with the crowd. The one sport gloriously stuck somewhere in the late 1940s. This week in Louisville is about the only time American men and women still dress up and wear hats.
Horse racing has been my favorite sport since I was a little kid, and while it has its downsides, it never insults its fans on the scale such as we see elsewhere. Part of that is that so many of the sportscasters and radio hosts are intimidated by their lack of knowledge of the sport and just refrain from saying anything. One exception was the boorish lefty, Bob Costas, who finally exited NBC's race team a few years ago.
Last year's race protesters have also quietly melted away from the Derby City, and the most reckless of them, Grandmaster Jay, is facing 20 years in federal prison.
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Just don’t accidentally sit in the No Whites section.
Waiting on the day the animal psychoanalysts from Yale med school say the horses think racism is the greatest threat to the sport.
Racingism?
“Best of all, a good bottle of straight Kentucky bourbon can often be had for less than $10.”
Yeah, right.
They’ve been woke since they changed the words to My Old Kentucky Home and Maryland My Maryland.
Mitch McTurtle was an also ran.
Horse racing not woke? Give it time; Leftists will insist a stallion can identify as a mare and vice versa.
They can't train a horse to do the perversions that leftists embrace.
Preakness dropped the song “MARYLAND MY MARLAND” last year...the State officially dropped the song in March....they gotta ruin everything...
Horse racing is a pretty elite sport. You have to have money to have horses and train and race them.
It is unacceptable to have money and do things you enjoy these days.
Horse racing may not be, but NBC sure is.
Why do they have a track and field athlete doing a fashion segment?
Can I assume from that there are no black female jockeys this year?
Tsk tsk.
Watching NBC leading up to the Derby in a couple of minutes. Stands are packed, owners and trainers and fans maskless. No social distancing, crowds and jockeys maskless. All NBC interviewers are masked, stands out like a black clad Antifa “protestor” at a Klu Kluz Klan meeting.
War is the Sport of Kings. Everything else is just the sport of the well off.
Medina Spirit ridden by Juan Velazquez and trained by Bob Baffert, his seventh win and all time winiest trainer.
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