Kentucky Derby - America’s Greatest Online Sports Betting Event!

[Shame About Ray]

It’s Kentucky Derby Week, or as I like to call it, the real religious holiday. Yes, that’s how important the Kentucky Derby is to my family. Call me crazy, but I just don’t understand how anybody who considers himself a true horse race betting fan could do anything this coming Saturday except hang-out with friends, eat some good food, drink a lot of high-priced whiskey, watch the races at Churchill Downs and try to make lots of money in the BetUS online racebook.

The Kentucky Derby is as old, and as important, as any sporting event in the United States. How important? The horse, trainer and jockey that win the Kentucky Derby become forever remembered in our collective horse racing minds. No horse racing fan forgets you if you win the Kentucky Derby.

Case in point, Risen Star who was obviously the most talented 3-year old colt of his generation. He took down the Preakness Stakes and Belmont Stakes in 1988. But who do we remember? The filly Winning Colors out of the D. Wayne Lukas barn. She wired the Derby field that year.

This year, the winner of the Kentucky Derby automatically gets a seat next to Curlin for year end honors. That’s the way it is every year.

For horse racing fans, going to the Kentucky Derby is unlike anything you are ever going to experience again. I’ve been to a few Breeders’ Cups, okay? And, let me tell you, Breeders’ Cup day is nothing like the Kentucky Derby. I spent an entire week in Lexington, going back and forth to Louisville during Derby week last year, and it was unlike anything I had ever seen in my life.

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