Flatter: What price comes with the new-look Churchill Downs?

 Phil M Stockmen
Feb 212025
 

This is the winter of our disconnect.

Horse Racing Nation – Ron Flatter: What price comes with the new-look Churchill Downs?

Aerial view rendering of the Conservatory

Churchill Downs Incorporated Unveils Multi-Year Series of Capital Projects for Churchill Downs Racetrack

Bloodhorse – Frank Angst – CDI Officials Detail Massive Plans for Churchill Downs

Phil has a question:

Will the girls in the infield still climb on their boyfriends shoulders and flash the horses coming down the Kentucky Derby stretch.

If the thoroughbred industry wants to attract a younger audience to the races then why the fuck is CDI building a facility for wealthy old stuffed shirts.

When you whitewash the fun out of the Derby Infield where will the hooligans go.

The highlight of the event wasn’t a horse race but rather the race of the most ambitious drinkers across the top of the port-a-potties. The port-a-potty run, I learned, is a tradition at Churchill Downs as sacred as Derby hats. The brave runners mount a toilet on the end of the row (I have no idea how they get up there) and attempt to run across the tops, all while the crowd hurls beer cans (graciously empty) and other trash at them to knock them off balance. At best, runners can hope to make it across and leap into the mud on the far side. At worst, a faceful of plastic awaits, as they tumble into the toilets and fall to the ground seven feet below.

Kentucky Derby Infield

The Complete Guide to the Kentucky Derby Infield Party

2010 Kentucky Derby Porta Potty Racing

2008 Kentucky Derby Porta Potty Racing

Phil has a question:

Do empty beer cans fly like that.

Grantland – Michael MacCambridge – Director’s Cut: ‘The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved,’ by Hunter S. Thompson

Infield construction (artist's rendering)

Paulick Report – Kevin Kerstein  – Churchill Downs Unveils New Construction Plans, Including Infield

Bloodhorse – Joe Perez – Churchill Announces Expansion and Renovation Projects

TDN – Multi-Year Series of Capital Projects Unveiled for Churchill Downs

Bloodhorse – Byron King – CDI Reports Sharp Increase in 2024 Revenue, Income

You Can Take The Fried Chicken Our Of Kentucky ….

Now is the winter of our discontent”

By William Shakespeare

(spoken by Richard, Duke of Gloucester)

Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of York;
And all the clouds that lour’d upon our house
In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.
Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths;
Our bruised arms hung up for monuments;
Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings,
Our dreadful marches to delightful measures.
Grim-visaged war hath smooth’d his wrinkled front;
And now, instead of mounting barbed steeds
To fright the souls of fearful adversaries,
He capers nimbly in a lady’s chamber
To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.
But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks,
Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass;
I, that am rudely stamp’d, and want love’s majesty
To strut before a wanton ambling nymph;
I, that am curtail’d of this fair proportion,
Cheated of feature by dissembling nature,
Deformed, unfinish’d, sent before my time
Into this breathing world, scarce half made up,
And that so lamely and unfashionable
That dogs bark at me as I halt by them;
Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace,
Have no delight to pass away the time,
Unless to spy my shadow in the sun
And descant on mine own deformity:
And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover,
To entertain these fair well-spoken days,
I am determined to prove a villain
And hate the idle pleasures of these days.
Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous,
By drunken prophecies, libels and dreams,
To set my brother Clarence and the king
In deadly hate the one against the other:
And if King Edward be as true and just
As I am subtle, false and treacherous,
This day should Clarence closely be mew’d up,
About a prophecy, which says that ‘G’
Of Edward’s heirs the murderer shall be.
Dive, thoughts, down to my soul: here
Clarence comes.
William Shakespeare

Phil M. Stockmen

 

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