I started coming to the Infield in ‘77 with my high school friends. From 79 thru 84 I introduced my college crowd to the fun. My sons, now teenagers themselves, attend with me. After more than 30 years in the Infield and countless memories of the first Saturday in May, I had the Twin Spires roofline tatoo’d on my right arm so I can take a little Derby with me everywhere I go. Rain, snow sleet or sunshine, I’ll see ya in the Infield!

At 4:00 pm on Oaks Day 2005 my then girlfriend and now wife and I were sitting in our town home’s basement office outside of Baltimore Maryland talking about the Derby looking at the website and listening to the link for “My Old Kentucky Home”. I finally said “this is ridiculous, we should be there”. My wife’s reply was “well let’s go”. So, despite knowing all we could get were General Admission tickets we decided to go. We dropped her two older children off with some friends and we packed up our five month old son and some appropriate Derby clothing finally leaving somewhere around 7:00 pm to drive all night long to my sister’s house in Louisville. We got to Louisville around 5 am on Derby Day. We took a quick nap and headed to Churchill Downs around 11am.
 
We hung out at the track having a blast. My sister was there as well in a box that just happened to have a few no shows. So in the end we did get into the bleachers to watch Giacomo (who came in second in the Read more »