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Happy Mother’s Day!
Today we celebrate all the mommies of the world: Their smiles will always be more beautiful to us than the prettiest of roses!
(Mommy got this jar for Grandmom many years ago and filled it with homemade pink roses that never wilt!)
It's Derby Day!
Only half an hour til post time for the 141st running of the Kentucky Derby! The official flower of the "Run for the Roses" is the red rose: The winner gets a beautiful garland of more than 400 red roses, and his jockey gets 60 long-stemmed roses wrapped in 10 yards of ribbon!
This year's Derby field is one of the deepest in recent memory. As Joe Drape put it for the NY Times, "[F]or the first time since I have been coming here, the horses are the genuine stars and there is a sense that the 141st running of America’s signature race is going to be one for the ages." We can't wait!!
A lot of the buzz this year is about American Pharaoh, the 5-2 morning-line favorite who has "floated like a cloud" all week and who snagged jockey Victor Espinoza, rider of last year's winner California Chrome. We will be cheering for American Pharaoh, but our money's on his more tested (and undefeated!) stablemate Dortmund, son of 2008 Derby winner Big Brown. Either way, we think lucky trainer Bob Baffert is in for a big day today!
Mommy says I am and will always be a winner in her heart, so she made me my very own winner's garland of roses! (Pink, not red, because we don't have any fold-able red paper.)
