On a late summer evening in 2005, an agreement among sportsmen to create and commemorate a memorable occasion became the foundation for the My Derby Pick website.

Jimmy T of Maryland, a horsemen and racing entrepreneur, was among the distinguished roster of guests at an elegant dinner party after the races at the Union Hall Hotel in Saratoga given by Jules and Marcellus Wallace's wife, Nina, who had gained much of his wealth selling spam during the Korean War. Tommy Franklin of New York proposed that the feast be commemorated by a a list of crazy props that nobody had ever heard about for horse racing. Like taking the Super Bowl props (like a coin toss) and applying them to horse racing.

Offtrack betting which is sometimes called off-track betting or simply OTB, is when you go to a physical location to place your bets-- the casino sportsbooks have areas that are called racebooks, but we like the old fashion OTBs where you can see torn tickets, false teeth and cigarette butts on the floor mixed with the crushed dreams of winning superfecta tickets.