A nice little thing happened on a business trip that I just took, and it’s largely due to the PIG® logo.

Dan Silver and I were visiting New Pig customers, mainly learning about their use of  PIG® Lite-Dri® Loose Absorbent and other loose absorbents. We were in Louisville, Kentucky, and we had a little free time before our next hop to Cincinnati.

We headed over to Churchill Downs, the track where the Kentucky Derby is run, just in hopes of getting to see the track.

We asked an employee at the gate about that, and he said there were tours, but we didn’t have time. We went inside the building anyway, sort of hoping for some dumb luck.

We ended up asking two other employees if there was a way to see the track besides taking a tour. The one lady checked about a balcony in the off-track betting area, but she found out that off-track betting wasn’t open.

The other lady’s gaze was kind of fixed on my chest. I get that a lot. Okay, not really. She pointed to the PIG® logo on my shirt and asked about it. Piggers have seen that kind of curiosity countless times. I saw an opportunity.

“If I tell you about the logo,” I said, “would you help us get a look at the track?” A workplace-related exchange, right?

The next thing you know, the lady who noticed the logo said something about going off to take a break, and the other lady shooed us after her. She took us right up to the track, close enough to touch it, and Dan got the pictures below. To say the least, Churchill Downs is really something.  Next Saturday, the Kentucky Derby will be run there for the 135th time in front of about 150,000 people, and we got to see it on a quick stopover.

That, ladies and gentleman, is PIG® power (and Louisville hospitality).

By Scott-D

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