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Article: The Derby's unbridled security: more than 150,000 spectators watch the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs. Security is there to weed out the pickpockets, purse-snatchers, and unruly among them--and to be ready for any more serious problems that could disrupt the race.(Special Events)
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- October 1, 2006
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Several hours before a dark bay colt named Barbaro smoked the field by six-and-a-half lengths at the 2006 Kentucky Derby, Saundra Spaulding was working the Churchill Downs telephone switchboard. At one point, as she tried to focus on the callers, she was distracted by caterwauling and banging on the floor above. At first she couldn't figure out the source--until it dawned on her that she was beneath the on-site jail. The inmates were getting restless. "One lady was yelling, and kept going on and on. It was obvious she had had too much [to drink]," says Spaulding. That was at 2 p.m. By the end of the day, scores of people had passed through the two cells on their way to the ...
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