Churchill Downs It includes a 360-degree cinema that shows the short film "The Greatest Race," a documentary about the Kentucky Derby. The museum is normally open year-round. In October 2013, Churchill Downs began installing a new, ultra high-definition video board built by Panasonic, which became operational in time for the 2014 Kentucky Derby. Called "The Big Board", it measures wide and high, with the bottom edge off the ground, and weighs . It was constructed along the outside of the backstretch of the dirt course facing the grandstand and infield. At the time, it was the largest ultra high-definition video board ever
Bandera Downs Bandera Downs Bandera Downs was an American horse-racing track located in Bandera, Bandera County, Texas. A thousand people were on hand for the first race at the new track known as Lost Valley Downs in July 1965 running American Quarter Horse and Thoroughbred events until closing after the 1967 season. The track was sold in 1984 and reopened as Bandera Downs by the new owners. It opened as for its first season of parimutuel racing on July 6, 1990, shortly after the Texas Legislature legalized parimutuel betting. Despite a $6 million renovation and 284,690 people gambling $35.8 million the first