Brad Blanks
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But that's where you get your celebrity sightings, which adds another thing, you know, the likes of, I was there one year, Tom Brady, you know, comes quite a bit actually.
And he was in there with, and he brought like the whole of his offensive line from the New England Patriots at the time.
So, uh, yeah, the big thing, what they've done now is this, the Thursday has turned into the locals day and it's called the 30.
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.
But, yeah, just a lot of fun.
And they have the infield too, which is another whole world.
I've matured out of the infield, Gerard.
I don't participate in that anymore.
I actually stand on the mud of the track.
I stand on the soil and watch the Kentucky Derby, which is crazy that you โ
It did everything to suggest that it's going to run the 2,000 metres and have that very famous sweeping run.
It's going to come from probably the last third of the field.
It's like they come out and guys want a position.
The jockeys want a position very quickly, and they're cleaning people up.
You've seen about two years ago, if you're in one to four, you're cleaned up by the horse in barrier five, just knock them all out, and they didn't stand a chance.