{"id":6543,"date":"2011-05-12T18:25:21","date_gmt":"2011-05-12T23:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=6543"},"modified":"2011-05-12T18:29:52","modified_gmt":"2011-05-12T23:29:52","slug":"bet_on_brown_de","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/12\/bet_on_brown_de\/","title":{"rendered":"Bet on Brown? Desis at the Derby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Could betting desi at the Derby make you some money? A news post from Ram mentioned that the recent 137th <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kentuckyderby.com\/\">Kentucky Derby<\/a>, also known as &#8220;The Most Exciting Two Minutes in Sports with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kentuckyderby.com\/experience\/fashion\">Big Hats<\/a> Sideshow,&#8221; had two jockeys of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Indo-Jamaican#Notable_Jamaicans_of_Indian_descent\">Jamaican<\/a> desi descent in the top ten finishers. Rajiv Maragh rode Mucho Macho Man (aka <a href=\"http:\/\/therail.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/05\/04\/from-mucho-macho-man-to-3m\/\">MMM)<\/a> to a third place finish and a piece of the $2 million purse, and Shaun Bridgmohan rode Santiva to a sixth place finish. So I guess betting on the right brown can make you a little green, or a lot&#8211;first place went to another kind of brown more common in the jockey world, John Velazquez riding Animal Kingdom. <\/p>\n\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kentuckyderby.com\/contenders\/mucho-macho-man\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"maragh.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/maragh.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" height=\"156\" width=\"125\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Bridgmohan.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/Bridgmohan.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" height=\"156\" width=\"125\" \/><br \/><\/div>\n\n<p>Maragh and Bridgmohan&#8217;s&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kentuckyderby.com\/contenders\/mucho-macho-man\">Derby<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kentuckyderby.com\/contenders\/santiva\">bios<\/a>\n both mention dads who made them complete high school before pursuing \nthe thrilling but <a href=\"http:\/\/animal.discovery.com\/tv\/jockeys\/horse-racing\/jockeys-101\/injuries-safety.html\">inherently risky<\/a> field of horseracing, a fact probably notable because riders are eligible for a jockey \nlicense at age 16. Maragh&#8217;s father was a jockey. <a href=\"http:\/\/nehrujackets.tumblr.com\/post\/4690250980\/how-to-respond-when-someone-asks-you-whatchu-know\">Bridgmohan<\/a>, whose brother is also a jockey, is referenced in the lyrics for <a href=\"http:\/\/rapgenius.com\/lyrics\/Das-racist\/Fake-patois\">&#8220;Fake Patois&#8221;<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/cse?cx=016152447450613227378%3Adpwagjvv5hy&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;q=das+racist&amp;sa.x=0&amp;sa.y=0\">Das Racist<\/a>: <i>What you know about Shaun Bridgmohan? First Jamaican in the Kentucky Derby.<\/i>&nbsp;<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could betting desi at the Derby make you some money? A news post from Ram mentioned that the recent 137th Kentucky Derby, also known as &#8220;The Most Exciting Two Minutes in Sports with Big Hats Sideshow,&#8221; had two jockeys of Jamaican desi descent in the top ten finishers.<\/p> <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/12\/bet_on_brown_de\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6543"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}