Chuck Culpepper
speaker
568 appearances
7 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2023
last heard 8 Jul
Chuck Culpepper’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So in 2020, the Kentucky Derby was a depressing event, which is usually it's the opposite of depressing at all times.
But it was the COVID one.
It was empty.
And
Churchill Downs was at first allowed by, we forget what it was like to live with these changes and stipulations and so on based on what the number of cases was, but Churchill Downs was allowed to have 14,000 fans, and then they weren't.
And this man who had one of those 14,000 tickets with his wife, Bob and Barbara Y. of Louisville, it would seem to end his streak of 73 at the time straight.
Derby starting at age nine with his mother in 1947 when Jet Pilot won the derby.
And she encouraged him to crawl between knees and ankles up to the rail so he could see something.
And then the horses blurred by and that was it.
But then one of the owners from that race got him a ticket and said, join our crew, which was allowed.
And, you know, the owner groups were allowed into that derby.
So his streak carried on.
And it got to 79 and he really, really wanted 80 and he's 88 years old and he spent four months in hospitals and rehab centers between Christmas, Christmas day and mid April.
So it looked like this was implausible that he would attend the Derby and, and he made it, he made it in a wheelchair and with a lot of help, but he made it and he was completely exhilarated and in a,
just to see him smile for as long as he did.
As the race ended, he kept smiling for moments afterwards.
One of the most beautiful things I can think of.
He's a big star.
He wears it very well.
That's right, yes.
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