Chuck Culpepper

And I wonder, you know, I don't know.

I was guilty of bothering people about that for a long time.

You know, hey, I have this idea, but it's in, you know, the Post once let me roam around the Middle East for two months, you know.

So we've had meetings about us having video involved in our stories.

Yes, I think there will be a video component where you say you have an idea.

The Kentucky Derby, it's the only one I've done so far, so I keep coming back to it.

But if that had come together more quickly, that probably would have had some video along with it.

But, you know, it will be mingled all the time with the ideas and the possibility of video, which brings also the possibility of perhaps TV, you know, while you're telling them about the story you've done.

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.