Kentucky Derby Race Time

May 7, 2005 2:24 PM

Kentucky Derby Race Time. OK, I'm about to lose my fucking mind...[MI]

I am having guests over to watch the Ky Derby, and I'm trying to TiVo it, but nowhere on ESPN, askJeeves, Google, the Churchill Downs site, can I find an exact/approx. time the actual race is going to start. ESPN just shows "race coverage" and I don't want to go through three hours of coverage.

Thanks.

posted by docpops to grab bag (5 comments total)

6:04 PM ET according to Churchill Downs
posted by thermopolis at 2:29 PM on May 7, 2005

OK, that jibes with my best guess, i.e., they said "post time", but I know "post time" from my ass. I was worried that meant, maybe, all the riders get together and compare war stories or something. My only job for this shindig is to tape the damn race and I don't want to screw it up.
posted by docpops at 2:35 PM on May 7, 2005

Yeah, the countdown on the Kentucky Derby site has it for less than 30 minutes from now, i.e.: 6:04pm as thermopolis says! Giddyup!
posted by fionab at 2:38 PM on May 7, 2005

[added Kentucky Derby Race Time to actual question]
posted by jessamyn at 4:36 PM on May 7, 2005

I used to live about two miles from Churchill downs. It was amusing watching staggeringly drunk race fans in seersucker suits look for their cars after the race. Another advantage was that the city cleaned up the freeway exits and the neighborhood in general. Rich old guys with their attractive young "nieces." Scads of B-celebrities. Rumors of elaborate race scams. I miss it.

And this year's winner came in at 50-1. Yowza!
posted by mecran01 at 10:09 PM on May 8, 2005