Editor’s Notebook: Some unexpected Kentucky magic outside of Derby Week

By: Linda Blackford

Outlets: Kentucky Lantern

Published: May 1, 2026

Words: 627

Last Updated: 2 months, 4 weeks ago

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On Friday morning, Kentucky Oaks Day, I was greatly entertained by a column in the Courier-Journal by Eric Reynolds bemoaning the corporatization of the Kentucky Derby.

The opening line, “The Kentucky Derby has been kidnapped and dressed in a seersucker suit,” gives you some idea where he’s headed.

He then follows with this banger: The Derby has become a “gleaming, overpriced, overmanaged product sitting inside Churchill Downs like a prize hog at …

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