The Kentucky Derby 2017 will kick off in a few hours and due to the heavy rain all day Friday, there are concerns on what the track will look like today for this big event. Janice Dean from Fox…
This is the 143rd running of the Kentucky Derby and it’s a race that is held rain or shine. Rain does interfere with all those beautiful hats getting drenched leaving them looking a bit wilted, but when it comes to the horses, they run. When they run, do they really have a leg up if their “father was a mudder and their mother was a mudder?” Apparently that makes them a “mudder” too, at least this is the theory that Kramer offers up on the iconic sitcom Seinfeld, as seen in the YouTube video below.
If you are a Seinfeld fan, there is no way you can forget the famous scene of Kramer overhearing two guys talking about the horse races on the subway. The famous line “his father was a mudder, his mother was a mudder” was first said by one of the two men sitting behind Kramer on the subway. Kramer strained to hear the conversation about a horse that these guys called a long shot, but was going to win. The next scene you see Kramer repeating that “mudder” line to a stranger at Off Track Betting (OTB) as they stand in line to make a bet. Kramer plops down $600 and you can hear the screaming coming from him as the race ends- he won!
A horse coming from a line of “mudders” is only Kramer’s subway theory on the horse having a leg up to win on a sloppy track. With that said, there are horses in the 2017 Kentucky Derby that have experience with running off track. Four names have been tossed around all week as the favorites to win the derby this year. Only one of those four names have that off track experience under their saddles.
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