Skip to content
The COVID Project
  1. Library
  2. Rental and Leasing
  3. SEC-22-GM-020

Ex. SEC-22-GM-020 Organizer notice Confirmed from a secondary source

Kentucky Derby homepage: 'Saturday, Sept 5, 2020... Watch on NBC Sports' (capture Aug. 26, 2020)

Kentucky Derby 146 and 147 (Churchill Downs; hospitality tents, staging, shuttle and car rental in Louisville)

Churchill Downs Incorporated · Louisville, KY (Organizer)

The COVID Project

The record

Jurisdiction
Louisville, KY · Kentucky
Level
Organizer
Issued
2020-03-17 Mar. 17, 2020
In force
Mar. 17, 2020 (the notice's date)
Quarters
2020 Q2
Functions reached
  • PR
  • CR
  • MK
  • CB
Collection
Rental and Leasing SEC-22

Operative words

'no spectators due to an increase in COVID-19 cases throughout the state of Kentucky and the city of Louisville' (Churchill Downs as quoted in Wikipedia, secondary)

The organizer's notice

Kentucky Derby homepage: 'Saturday, Sept 5, 2020... Watch on NBC Sports' (capture Aug. 26, 2020)

Notes

2020: Postponed to Sept. 5, 2020 (the first Derby outside May since 1945) and then run without spectators. 2021: Run May 1, 2021 with reserved seating limited to about 60 percent and reported attendance of 51,838, 'in response to Kentucky's venue capacity orders' (Wikipedia, secondary; Exs. KY-018, KY-047). Usual dates: First Saturday in May (May 2, 2020 planned); run Sept. 5, 2020; May 1, 2021. Scale: About 150,000 attendees in a normal year; 51,838 in 2021 (Wikipedia, secondary). Venue orders 2020: KY-021, KY-022, KY-023, KY-028. Venue orders 2021: KY-018, KY-047.