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>> this is my first derby. >> excellent. >> i'm a virgin. >> yeah. [ laughter ] >> any advice? >> drink lots of mint juleps. this is the $1,000 jew blip mint wood preserve. >> i'm going to keep this. >> okay. >> what is doing the derby? what does that mean to you? >> the people, the energy, the enthusiasm. the history. >> dress up to the nines. >> the drink? >> the drink like you are a freshman in college. >> oh. >> have a brew. don't cost you nothing. >> what kind of stallion gets your blood pumping? >> my husband. [ laughter ] >> the italian stallion. >> okay. okay. >> when you talk like tha...

Believe i did it again. to have my family, my boys here and jill, my wife jill. what they have to go through. the emotions, the stress to have a horse like that. i was so happy that, you know, he's the horse that everybody built him up to be. >> i can't believe it. i'm dreaming. i was living the dream. i don't want to wake up. now it's reality. we are beyond ecstatic. >> by the way, victor espinoza won last year on california chrome and wins this year. he came up short to win the triple crown. american pharoah has the chance that no horse has done since 1978. the preakness is coming up in two ...

We'll continue to watch it and bring you more from baltimore throughout the next hour here. now, turning to a big day in the sports world. less than three hours to go before one of the year's biggest sporting events. we're talking about the kentucky derby. churchill downs already teaming with activity for much of the week as horses and jockeys get in shape for the big day, and fans started amassing there at 8:00 with hats in place, mint juleps in hand. we know we're just a couple hours away. a lot of it is really about the prerace partying, too, as much as those crucial two minutes of sports, ...

Saturday's ever. that's not it. there's a horse race before. kentucky derby. hours before tomorrow night's fight, the kentucky derby, the first leg of horse racing triple crown. 20 horses are scheduled to run. favorite right now is american pharoah. >> nearly 100,000 people will crowd into churchill downs in louisville for one of the biggest parties in america. you can look forward to a day at the track, sunny skies. temperatures near 80. plenty, and i'm talking plenty of mint juleps. this is going to be big. american pharoah is supposed to be the favorite. dortmund is huge. the kentucky derby...

Being with me. >> thanks for having me. i wish you could join us. >> i'm looking forward to the hats and stuff tomorrow. >> yeah, that too. >> and there is a little celebration going on there, just separate from the horse race a little bit? >> yeah, there's a lot of stuff going on. they've got mint juleps tailgating on the backside hat contests, fashion contests celebrities, i think some of those celebrities come for the event, i don't think they know any of the horses but there's a lot to see. it's a great day. >> kind of like me at the billboards yesterday. i was there and i didn't recognize...