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I was looking to bet on a fillie, couldnt find one to bet on, now I see why...

May be a muddy or sloppy track

Whoa!

Someone didn't use their dictionary. If they did they'd know it's a British word, and synonymous with bowler, strictly speaking a mans hat.

Remember it's a British word, while considering this, it's a mans hat!

OK now that I have your attention, I'll explain in gristly graphic detail what a Derby is:

A Derby is a mid to late springtime thing. The gestation period for a horse is about eleven months. It's best to have a horse mate and foal in mid to late spring. So that is why a Derby is held in mid to late spring.

People would bring their female horses, they wanted to breed with a prized stallion to a Derby. A stallion is prized most at three years of age. A race would be held to see who's stallion would be prized, more or less.

And after the race a bowler would be prepared for the winners. Here's one being prepared:



Here's one being used:



Get your semen here! Get it while it's steaming hot! Get it on a stick!

Gold would be exchanged with the owner of the winner for one of those sticks, a stick with a swab at one end soaked in prized steaming seamen.

Remember the part where I said people do bring a female horse to a derby, this is part where the female horses who were brought to the derby in the first place, begin to be addressed.

In the olden days the semen really did need to be administered while still steaming hot. Now days they use liquid Nitrogen to cryopreserve the semen, to allow for a more genteel setting on the day of the race.

So people don't need to bring their female horses to see the race anymore. But don't you worry about it none, those female horses are still going to get to meet their prized steaming seaman.

The owners of winning stallions are banking on it. So you see a Derby isn't so much race, as it is a stock exchange.

I'm waiting for one of the stallions to announce that he's gay.

Ya'know why gilrs are working this horse don't'chya . . .

turns out i bet on the long-shot which placed, and i bet to place so i won some

No, I found the photo using Google. I've seen it being done, I was about ten and I stayed behind my dad. It didn't look that safe.

I knew it on faith alone though that Google would have photo's of this act, and of the tool used. I just picked-em out from among many.

I picked out the one that had the women doing it, I liked it more somehow. I could have picked out any numbers of them showing men.

Do you have any pet theories as to why that feller in blue jeans has that horse bowler held between his knees? I'd like to hear them.

Randys, what are you talking about.

hold em, texas, i had a full house and the fillie had two pair

Well then, that Great! Congratulation Randys!

you were joking?

if not, i bet on several horses in the Kentucky Derby, one of the bets i made was on the horse that finished 2nd, i bet him to finish second, or to place and that is how i won

I was.

Randys I knew a fellow who tried for that thing where you pick six, he'd place a half a hundred cheap bets on a single day.

He'd tell me all about how he did it, and I basically understood that there was something about six races during the race day, or something, and I didn't really understand it.

On day he had a ticket that he paid like three dollars for, win a quarter of million dollars. He pissed that away in six months, so I still don't understand it.

IIRC, that paid really swell. Good for you.