A Day At the Downs

For our last day in Louisville I felt it necessary to take Jürgen to an historic Louisville landmark: Churchill Downs. For those of you who may not be familiar with the Downs, it is a world famous horse track which hosts the most prestigious horse race, the Kentucky Derby . Our good friend Bruce gave us tickets to the Turf Club so we could watch the races in style. We had a great day eating good food and putting our money towards some promising thoroughbreds. We partook in what we called a "show parlay." How does this work? As a group we each put $2 in for a given horse to "show" (that means to come in third in betting lingo), if we were to win that race we would take whatever our winning were to put towards the next race. Out of eight races that we bet on, we "won" seven of them. It was a very exciting day and a great way for Jürgen to get a slice of Kentucky history. Here are a few photos which were snapped while we stood out by the paddocks and perused the horses before their race.



See those twin spires in the background? Yeah, they are pretty famous.