Proud Spell sloshing her way to victory in Friday's Kentucky Oaks. Let's hope things dry out today. Copyrighted Herald-Leader photo by Mark Cornelison.
Ten years ago the first Saturday in May, I arrived at Churchill Downs for the first time to attend the Kentucky Derby. My assignment was to write the "Derby virgin" story, chronicling first encounters with uniquely Derby experiences such as the mint julep, placing a bet and the infield.
Since then, I've covered nine of these things -- if you're counting, I took last year off in favor of covering LBB in the Legally Blonde opening in New York -- and experienced a lot. I've watched the race from the roof of Churchill Downs, I've hung with Scooby Doo in the infield and I trailed Lee Cruse and his antics around the Downs.
Back then, blog might be a way to pronounce log if you had too many mint juleps, and we filed our stories via dialup. This year, I will be your Derby blogger, your Kentucky Culture Vulture trying to bring you a bit of the experience, what makes Derby distinct.
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