Watch The Kentucky Derby

There is much ado about the Kentucky Derby. It is hard to understand how a horse race can garner so much attention for television. Perhaps it is the hats. Well-dressed woman in beautiful hats were not common in racing circles until Col. Meriwether Lewis Clark, Jr. and his 1875 Kentucky Derby launched what has become a spring tradition. Woman always dressed to show off the latest in hats and coordinating apparel but the advent of television coverage made this spectacle even more important for the women attending as they might have a few minutes on television if they had the right hat. For some this part of the Derby is as important as the two minute horse race itself. Television coverage of the Derby immerses viewers in the festivities in a way being there would not allow. As race time approaches coverage of women