She said she brought plenty of cash and was planning to put it all on the Derby. Photo by David R. Lutman, Special to the Courier-Journal Kirk M. Clayton of Los Angeles held 10 betting slips from 10 races.
Credit cards are virtually useless at the race track.
They can't be used to place a bet, buy a beer or do much of anything but extract a cash advance from an automatic teller machine. The coin of the realm in the Sport of Kings is neither a coin nor a piece of plastic. And lots of it. When I go, I go prepared to lose whatever I take, but I'm not happy about it. A group of men from Kenosha, Wis., gathered outside the Downs early yesterday with similar ideas about betting big bucks on Derby Day.