The 52nd annual St.
Martha's Picket Picnic.
All morning long we've been givg
you a preview of all the fun
the entire family can have here,
from the food to the cake wheel to the games.
So now Jeff is going to show us how the
one of the most popular games works here.
Yeah. So what is this called?
This is horse race bingo.
It's unique to St.
Martha. Very Kentucky.
Yes, very much so.
So we took the classic bingo
game and put a spin on it,
and it's most certainly one of r
most popular games for the adul.
Adults, you got to be an adult
to play this game, kids, right.
So how, how does it work?
What do you purchase beforehand?
Ticket. So we have 15 horses
that are going to run and of
course first out of the gate,
it was going to be our numbers up top.
And then if you get them all five in a row,
you're going to be a winner.
Yes, ma'am. OK And of course,
we'll run multiple races at
the same time as well so we
can get more folks involved.
Does it get really competitive as people
get closer to getting their col?
Oh, it's like a little mini
Churchill Downs in here.
It's go, baby, go. Yes, ma'am.
All right. All right. Go, baby,
go. I'm going to show you.
Show us how this works then.
All right. So we're just going
to call them out like we you
would in the typical bingo.
So we've got we got in 35.
In 35, I'm here. Is your helper.
All right, excellent.
O69-O69-B11 and
O66, we have a winner right her.
Right here.
So that's gonna be horse number.
Just one across the right there.
How much? Depending on the race,
we start off at $5 as late as it gets.
In the evening,
we go up to about $50 per ticket
and winnings into the hundreds.
There you
go. Right. A little Derby right
here at Saint Martha's. Yes, ma.
Yes, ma'am. Come out and play.
And then how long does this go?
I mean, just do one after anothr
after another, all night long,
As quick as we can.
We can call the numbers.
Yes, ma'am. All night long.
Because, I mean, there's money
to be once you got to get to it.
Oh, yeah. And it's a lot.
As the night goes on,
the stakes get higher.
It got so competitive here all of a sudden.
I want to bring Dan back into
because there's a lot of other
cool prizes and things and then
this is one of the most popular.
We focused on the cake wheel
and what the kids can do,
but there's lots of other games
and things you can win too,
right? So we have with the difft
games you can win the Squish Mellows,
we have game for to win socks,
things that all the kids love, right?
So you have the pop, its the ha,
everybody gets a collector Kooz.
Free of charge.
And then we also have duck pond,
even for the little.
Oh, you have a duck pod. We
do. We do so. So do
you also have a game where you n
win plants, the the plant games.
Right. Plant what? It would hel.
Yes. Waiting for those to arriv.
That's why they're not here.
So we have plants. We have cand.
We mentioned the cakes.
We have a fruit booth too.
Paul's fruit market
donates the fruit for us.
And I think that's it.
I forget anything. A
lot. That's a lot. Have you added more
this year or do you know like fm
last year these were really pop?
It's it's usually the same boos.
We'd like to keep the classics in place.
Somebody'll have to refresh my memory if
we add anything recently. But over under,
it was actually in a parishioners basement,
so they brought it out and donated it.
This was in a basement In a basement.
Who would have thought?
It's a hit. It's probably like u
know what we have done without .
Exactly. It's such a gathers a crowd.
We all love to watch it.
They're auctioning horse number,
horse #7. So they've got a microphone.
They're up here and it's awesom.
It's like Churchill Downs in Saint Martha.
So what is your favorite game booth here?
I love candy booth because I'm.
I love candy.
I have a huge sweet tooth.
My go to is the Airheads.
Of course. That's always one.
And then how could you not love this game.
I love it all. It's just it's j.
It's the best single for to all summer.
Hannah, how about you?
I'm going to have to go with horse Race
Bingo as well. Abby and I are both alums,
So now that we're both, you know, adults,
of course we'll meet up with ale
people we graduated from Saint Martha with
and we'll all stand here and have like a
mini reunion at our mini Churchill Downs.
And we'll all get really excited
for each other. But of course,
because we've known each other forever,
we also get so competitive.
So we'll be over here causing a huge scene
at some point over the next two days.
We look forward to that.
And I know, Dan,
you're waiting on lots of diffet
things to arrive here throughout the day.
I remind everybody again the times today
and tomorrow starts at 4:00.
O'clock both days runs till midnight.
We serve the dinners till they run out.
The games keep going and. Well,
we want to thank all the
volunteers that are here today.
We have, we had all the kids coming up today.
Everybody like that showed up to help
us preview the Saint Martha pic.
Jeff, thank you for showing this game off.
This is a hoot, man.
I think I'm a hooked.
I'm hooked. We hope to see.
We hope to see you out here tonight at 4:00.
O'clock. Once again,
a great community event and a gt
place to catch up with friends, family,
maybe even meet some new friend.
But this is all happening here at 4:00
o'clock and the weather is alrey
starting and you see the sun coming out.
Yeah. Yes, it is.
And also don't forget Alden Ger,
our meteorologist,
Alden German is going to be out
here at 4-5 and 5:30 as well,
checking out all the games.
That's when the crowds will
start like filtering in.
So it's going to be a great time everybody.
We hope to see you out here.
Have a great weekend.
See you back here next week.