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Kentucky Derby Weekend

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Check this item off your bucket list! Come experience a Kentucky Derby Weekend in 2020! You will receive two (2) box seats for the Kentucky Oaks on 05/01/20, and two (2) box seats for the Kentucky Derby 05/02/20 at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky. Includes $1,500 Visa gift card to be used towards airfare or accommodations.

The Kentucky Derby is a top rank, Grade I stakes race for three-year-old Thoroughbred horses. The race distance is one and one-quarter miles long, and it is run on the dirt racetrack at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky. The Kentucky Derby takes place on the first Saturday in May every year, and typically draws a crowd of 155,000 people. It is the longest continuously held sporting event in America, and it is one of the most prestigious horse races in the world. Often called "The Most Exciting Two Minutes in Sports", the Kentucky Derby receives this nickname from the approximate length of time it takes the winner to run from the starting gate to the finish line.

The Longines Kentucky Oaks is America's premier and most lucrative race for three-year-old fillies (female horses), held each year on the day before the Kentucky Derby. This feature race is a One Million Dollar Grade 1 stakes race, and awards the winning filly a garland of lilies, appropriately named "lilies for the fillies." Like the Kentucky Derby, the Longines Kentucky Oaks race is one of the longest continuously held sporting events in American history, and one of the only horse races to take place at the original site of its inception.

Donated By Minzi & Mike Jones and St. Mary's School