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The Breeders’ Cup is coming up soon, and if you can’t get to Churchill Downs for horse racing’s World Championships, no need to worry: you can recreate the bluegrass experience in your own kitchen with these Kentucky-inspired recipes perfect for a #BC18 viewing party.

1. Mini Hot Browns

With the Breeders’ Cup World Championships right around the corner, it’s time to start making more detailed plans about your trip to Louisville, Ky. These plans include where to eat and the good news for Breeders’ Cup attendees is that good restaurants are not at all hard to come by in “The ‘Ville.” Everyone loves barbecue, or at least most racing fans do. Here are five restaurants in Louisville that all Breeders’ Cup-bound barbecue fanatics should check out.

Welcome to Tacos and Trifectas! Each week, America’s Best Racing’s Southern California correspondent Jose Contreras - @LosPonies to those who follow him on Twitter - will provide a taco review along with a selection that he will key in trifecta bets in hopes of winning some cash to buy more tacos! Contreras will map out a trifecta betting strategy for how to key his main pick and keep track of his return on investment (ROI), which was positive in 2017.

Stop back each week if you love tacos and want a trifecta play!

Welcome to Tacos and Trifectas! Each week, America’s Best Racing’s Southern California correspondent Jose Contreras - @LosPonies to those who follow him on Twitter - will provide a taco review along with a selection that he will key in trifecta bets in hopes of winning some cash to buy more tacos! Contreras will map out a trifecta betting strategy for how to key his main pick and keep track of his return on investment (ROI), which was positive in 2017.

Stop back each week if you love tacos and want a trifecta play!

** This article first ran on Aug. 30, 2017, and has been updated to preview the 2018 meeting. **

One of the success stories in Thoroughbred racing over the past decade is located square on the Kentucky-Tennessee state line, surrounded by farmland, with the relentless bustle of I-65 within eyesight and earshot.

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