It's Not Mad Cow: 2005-05-01

This is the only picture I could get of the Derby field.

Bi-partisans waiting for the field to come around...

The new Taj Mahal of racetracks

The Bad Year Blimp

Some horses galloping out

Record crowds = Long betting window lines

If you are going to the infield with a chair, you have to use Gate 3 only.

Ah...southern hospitality!

The 131st running of the Kentucky Derby (GI, $2,000,000 added)

I got lucky on Derby Day. A school bus pulled into the parking lot with a ton of cases of beer on it and a whole bunch of college kids. For ten bucks, I got 4 beers and a ride to the infield gate.

Ugh, the infamous City of Louisville Derby "shuttle."

A coal train goes through.

There's the train tracks that run behind the town of Matewan. Coal goes by all day and night.

Rails point to the next coal town.

Matewan National Bank

The church. They are big on churches in West Virginia and Eastern Kentucky.

May 19, 1920. Its rumored now that the sheriff shot the mayor in the back during the battle because he was sleeping with the mayor's wife. He actually did marry the mayor's wife like a week later.