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Podcast: Ridiculous History
Episode: How the Kentucky Derby Became a Thing
Description: Weβve all been there, right? You wake up one day, and you say: βYou know what? Forget work! Itβs so nice outside. I want to put on a fancy hat, watch a bunch of horses run around in a circle, and gamble. Like they do in Europe.β In today's episode, Ben, Noel and Max learn how the volatile, ambitious Colonel Meriwether Lewis Clark Jr. created a little something called the Kentucky Derby.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.