If you’re watching the Kentucky Derby — known as the “Run for the Roses” and seeing that giant garland of roses and wondered, “Hey, what’s the deal with that?” then we’ve got you covered.
Per NBC: “In 1883, New York socialite E. Berry Wall presented roses to the women at a party. Inspired by this gesture, Churchill Downs founder and president Meriwether Lewis Clark announced that roses were the official flower of the Kentucky Derby. In 1896, the tradition of draping a blanket of 554 red roses on the Kentucky Derby winner began.”
The process that it takes to put together hundreds of roses is quite a task, and here’s a video about it:
There you have it!
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