Kentucky Derby

Travel America, March-April, 2005

Tauck Worm Discovery celebrates the 131st running of Louisville's Kentucky Derby with a five-day tour (May 4-8) to Kentucky's Bluegrass Country. Included are Derby Day seats on Churchill Downs' famed "First Turn," a private hospitality marquee with all-day food and open bar, closed-circuit television monitors, and private mutual windows.

Other highlights are a private cocktail reception at Lexington's Keeneland Racecourse with headliner entertainment by country artist John Michael Montgomery, tours of a horse farm and bourbon distillery, and visits to Lexington's Kentucky Horse Park and Bardstown's My Old Kentucky Home State Park. Twin rate, with four nights at the Griffin Gate Marriott Resort in Lexington, is $3,990. Contact: Tauck Worm Discovery, (800) 468-2825; www.tauck.com.