Is your name Jeremy? Do you live in (or near) Boston?
If so, you can attend a Kentucky Derby party for free tomorrow afternoon.
The Sporting Club — a bar located at Omni Boston Hotel at the Seaport — is hosting its 3rd annual Kentucky Derby party from 3 to 7 p.m. on Saturday, May 4.
This year, to honor the racehorse “Lucky Jeremy,” who has a 500-1 odds of winning the top prize in U.S. horse racing, any person with the name Jeremy can enter free of charge and be treated like a VIP with complimentary food, The Sporting Club said.
People who are not named Jeremy can buy tickets online (while they’re still available) for $25.
Source: McLaughlin, Chris. “Is your name Jeremy? Kentucky Derby promo at Boston bar allows ‘VIP’ entry.” MassLive.com 25 Apr. 2024.
Image: Adapted from 2017 Kentucky Derby by squirrel83 under CC BY 2.0.
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That’s fun! There’s a flower shop here in Baltimore that changes their sign weekly, “If your name is [Amy], come in this week for a free bouquet.” It’s always an overtly female name, though — I guess they don’t think men (or people with unisex names) like flowers.
How curious that they only choose unambiguously female names.
I wonder if there’s a reason — like, maybe most of their customers really do have that kind of name…? Otherwise it does seem like a strange bias.