Sorry to be slow off the mark responding to your query, Jay. I’ve been in a state of reeling disbelief and stunned shock this past couple of days from hearing about Carrie Prejean’s implants.

You know how New Yorkers pronounce “Houston Street.” A nation that can’t even agree on a pronunciation for its own place-names is ill equipped to cope with those in foreign parts. That Churchill Downs announcer, probably intuiting this, simply decided to do as the Romans do.

Let’s just be thankful Lord Derby won the coin toss. If he hadn’t, you’d be writing about the Kentucky Bunbury.