My stepmom and I took advantage of the cute photo-op at the Derby party. Photo: Courtesy of Chris Higginbotham
I went to my firstKentucky Derby party and learned along the way that KC has its own piece of Derby history buried in Prairie Village.
The big picture: The Kentucky Derby has run every year since 1875, making it America's longest-running annual sporting event. It's two minutes of horses, a sea of hats and many mint juleps.
Fun fact: Kansas has produced exactly one Kentucky Derby winner, a horse named Lawrin.
Lawrin, trained at Woolford Farm near 83rd and Mission Road in what's now Prairie Village, won the 1938 Derby as an 8-1 long shot.
His owner, Herbert Woolf, ran the KC clothing chain Woolf Brothers, and his trainer, Ben Jones of Parnell, Missouri, went on to win six Derbys.
💭 Abbey's thought bubble: I did not bet on a horse, but I wore a big hat, drank a few juleps and watched two minutes of TV with a roomful of strangers all pretending we knew what was happening.
