Sorry, race fans, Denver’s biggest Kentucky Derby Party, on Saturday at Botanic Gardens, is already sold out. At $100 a ticket, this daytime gala brings out the city’s young, beautiful and preppy.
It started at the boathouse at Wash Park with about 150 people — and now it pulls in more than 2,000 to raise money for the Sean “Ranch” Lough Foundation.
“It’s girls in big hats and sundresses, guys in seersucker,” said organizer Drake Harris after the move to the gardens. “Who can beat it?”
, a cancer support group, hosts “Jockeys, Juleps and Jazz” for the race, 2-6 p.m. Saturday at Invesco Field at Mile High. Go to . And the Saddle Up! Foundation hosts a party at the foundation’s arena in Parker — so you can see the Derby with real horses. Go to .
