Churchill Downs today announced that famed hat designer Christine Moore is the featured milliner of the 145th Kentucky Derby presented by Woodford Reserve. This is the second consecutive year that Moore, also the official milliner of America’s Best Racing, has served as the Derby’s featured milliner.

The night before the 1945 Kentucky Derby, the city of Louisville was packed with racing fans. They booked every hotel room in the city, where people were crowded in three or four to a room. They filled the parking lots with cars with out-of-state plates. The biggest club in town, Club Madrid, was sold out with a capacity crowd of more than 1,400 people to hear an orchestra flown in from the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York. Restaurants around town ran out of food.