It’s that magical time of year again — the Kentucky Derby. Where incomprehensibly named horses run for our amusement and gambling pleasure. It feels like there are odd naming conventions that pop up every year, and 2018’s sure feels like it’s liquor-themed horses. Seriously, they all could be a plausible name for a bottle of booze.
QUIZ: Kentucky Derby Horse, or Kentucky Whiskey
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Kentucky Derby horse or Kentucky whiskey?
- Instilled Regard
- Early Times
- Blended Citizen
- Firenze Fire
- Old Forester
- Rhetoric
- Old Blowhard
- Free Drop Billy
- Barterhouse
- Echo Spring
- Promises Fulfilled
- Flameaway
- Audible
- Larceny
- Good Magic
- Justify
- Rebel Yell
- Old Tub
- Tradition
- Highspire
- Lone Sailor
- Revenge
- Limestone Landing
- Hofburg
- My Boy Jack
- Old Pogue
- Jethro T. Boots
- Bolt D’Oro
- Enticed
- Very Old Barton
- War Eagle
- Bravazo
- Flatboat
- Stagg Jr.
- Mendelssohn
- Magnum Moon
- Four Roses
- Solomini
- Dixie Dew
- Mellow Corn
- Vino Rosso
- Noble Indy
- Philadelphia
- Jacob’s Ghost
- Combatant
- Sunny Brook
- New Make
- Trybox
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Horses: Instilled Regard, Blended Citizen, Firenze Fire, Free Drop Billy, Promised Fulfilled, Flameaway, Audible, Good Magic, Justify, Lone Sailor, Hofburg, My Boy Jack, Bolt D’Oro, Enticed, Bravazo, Mendelssohn, Magnum Moon, Solomini, Vino Rosso, Noble Indy, Combatant
Whiskeys: Early Times, Old Forester, Rhetoric, Old Blowhard, Barterhouse, Echo Spring, Larceny, Rebel Yell, Old Tub, Tradition, Highspire, Revenge, Limestone Landing, Old Pogue, Jethro T. Boots, Very Old Barton, War Eagle, Flatboat, Stagg Jr., Four Roses, Dixie Dew, Mellow Corn, Philadelphia, Jacob’s Ghost, Sunny Brook, New Make, Trybox
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