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The Kentucky Oaks was traditionally known as "Louisville's Day at the Races", but as the race for fillies becomes more prestigious, more and more celebrities are flocking the "Run for the Lilies".

Many celebrities now make a weekend of their Derby experience attending both the Derby and oaks, and others who are not lucky enough to get a Millionaire's Row seat on Derby day have found the Oaks to be just as exciting.

Celebrated attendees, by year

2003 Janet Jackson, LaToya Jackson, Tobey Keith, Kid Rock, Slash, Sigourney Weaver, Bo Derek, Dan Aykroyd, Sara Rue, Evan Marriott, Steven Speilberg, Troy Aikman, Rick Pitino, Maury Povich, Connie Chung, Bob Costas, Tom Hammond, Pamela Anderson

2002 George Strait, Kevin Richardson, Howie Dorough, Alice Cooper, Dennis Hopper, Bo Derek, Melissa Joan Hart, Jerry O'Connell, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, P. Diddy, Francis Ford Coppola, Angelica Houston, Heather French Henry, Rachael Leigh Cook, Joe Ugly, Chris Redman

2001 Shannon Elizabeth, Joe Ugly, Tony Bennett, Chris Redman, Peyton Manning, Courtney Cox, Warren Moon, French Stewart, Wendie Malick, Mellisa Joan Hart, Pamela Anderson, Kid Rock and Bo Derek

2000 Current President George W. Bush Jr. and his father, past President George W. Bush Sr., KidRock, Bo Derek, John Michael Montgomery and two members of the Back Street Boys

1999 Muhammad Ali, Donald Trump, Bo Derek, Eriq LaSalle, Ed Asner, Jennifer Tilly, Al and Tipper Gore, Luke Perry, Rush Limbaugh, Joan Rivers, Fran Drescher, Travis Tritt

1998 Teri Hatcher, Robert Duvall, Rick Pitino, Jack Nicholson, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Prince Albert of Monaco, Sylvester Stallone, Bo Derek

1991 General Norman Schwarzkopf, Lee Iaccoca, John Goodman, Morgan Freeman, Michelle Phillips

1988 Steve Garvey, Bobby Knight, Julius "Dr. J" Erving, Jerry Lewis, Zsa Zsa Gabor

1982 Walter Cronkite, Armand Hammer, Stan Musial, Dan Issel, Waylon Jennings

1976 John Wayne, Telly Savalas, Robert Goulet, Howard Cosell

1974 Princess Margaret and Lord Snowden, Bob Hope, David Brinkley

1969 President and Mrs. Richard M. Nixon

1968 Joe Namath

1961 Prince Ranier of Monaco

1951 The Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Greer Garson

1950 Bob Hope, Claudette Colbert

1947 Admiral "Bull" Halsey

1941 Lana Turner, Don Ameche

1937 Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey, Gene Tunney, J. Edgar Hoover

1930 Lord Derby