Giddy Up! The Kentucky Derby is not just fancy hats and mint juleps

This Saturday marks the 135th running of The Kentucky Derby. If you don’t know anything about the Kentucky Derby, except that women wear big hats and spectators drink mint juleps then you’re missing out, because there’s so much more to the Derby than that. Like how people choose which horse to bet on, how much a jockey can weigh and why mint juleps are a waste of good bourbon.

Jennie Rees, is a reporter for the Courier Journal, she’s covered horse racing for over 25 years and she joins The Takeaway from the back side of Church Hill Downs.