Given the amount of gambling, drinking, and shenanigans that happen during the Derby, it's a miracle people still treat it like an exercise in pageantry and high class entertainment. i went to the preakness in 2001, and let's just say that i'd played at least 3 games of beirut (beer pong) and seen several sets of boobs before noon. Haha, I went in 2002? I starting drinking on a bus at 7:30 AM. Later I started chugging PJ. After that, I got on the wrong bus (city bus) and ended up in a ghetto.