Women wear clothes that

“EXPLODE with color”…

Their hats--“large and flamboyant”…

On the “first Saturday in May”---

the Kentucky Derby is “a SASSY package”…

More than 100,000 patrons will WAGER

$10-million…

On Derby Day---Race One goes off at

10:30 in the Louisville morning---

EIGHT HOURS before “the Derby” is run…

As the crowd grows---mint juleps are SWIGGED---

and "over-dressed people"

PRETEND to be

“adept at picking winners”…

All through the weekend,

“racing pros” and “great pretenders”

try to figure which “3-year-old”

is MOST LIKELY to become the

137th horse to “wear the Roses” …

Many bettors study

“The Daily Racing Form”..

But some wagers are based on

“liking the colors of the jockey’s SILKS”…

If you’re a Floridian---maybe a few bucks

will be placed on one of five colts BORN

in OUR neighborhood…

Maybe it’s a horse’s NAME

that grabs you---“Arch-arch-arch”,,,

“Mucho Macho Man”… OR--“Pants on Fire”---

Biggest story line is

Calvin Borel---hoping to ride his

fourth Derby winner in five

years---aboard 20-to-1 shot

Twice the Appeal...

The Derby is a “happening”…

When the University of Louisville band

plays “My Old Kentucky Home”---as

horses stroll from “paddock” to “track”---

it’s “okay to weep”…

Finally, when the STARTING GATE

opens---for “two minutes” there is

NOTHING like a Kentucky Derby…

I’m Hubert Mizell, and that’s what I think.