Brad Blanks

But, yeah, it's a different style of partying, I'd say, you know, but both levels of madness by the end of the day.

But things kicked off.

Things kick on afterwards here, Gerard.

So, yeah, the big thing, what they've done now is the Thursday has turned into the locals day and it's called the Thurby.

And it's just exploded this Thursday in the 25 years I've been coming here.

And they'll get about 80,000 on the Thursday, 110,000 on Oaks Day on the Friday, and then 120 on Derby Day.

So it's where we have a few gaps in between our days, we take a break.

This is just a full-on... You know, even tomorrow will be Wednesday, and even that's starting to gather some momentum.

So they really cram it all in on day by day.

But, yeah, true...

just a lot of fun.

And I have the infield too, which is another whole world.

I've matured out of the infield, Gerard.

I don't participate in that anymore.

But if you're in Australia and coming over there, you've got to at least watch a couple of races up, you know, in there.

And, uh,

Back in the day when I was in there, there'd be a lot of nude, hand-stared beer keg drinking, which is where you stand.

Your mates hold your boots up and you're naked and they funnel a massive funnel of beer in.

with a hose into your mouth and you've got to chug the whole can of beer in that way.

So that was always very entertaining.