{"id":24225,"date":"2017-05-08T16:18:05","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T23:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=24225"},"modified":"2017-05-08T16:22:23","modified_gmt":"2017-05-08T23:22:23","slug":"california-derbies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/california-derbies\/","title":{"rendered":"After the Kentucky Derby: California&#8217;s High Stakes Races"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/derbz.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While California had at least one hopeful in the recent Kentucky Derby,\u00a0on the same weekend Temecula hosted its own derby with wine-barrel race cars! The upcoming crop of derbies in the Golden State promise many winners in high-stakes competitions ranging from outhouses to soapboxes and rubber duckies! \u00a0Pictured left to right: Nevada City Soapbox Derby in September; Redding Rubber Ducky Derby in September; and Conejo Valley Day Outhouse Derby in May<\/p>\n<h2>Outhouse Derbies<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>THOUSAND OAKS: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/thousand-oaks-conejo-valley-days.html\">Conejo Valley Days<\/a> May 13, 2017 includes an Outhouse Derby Race described as a crap shoot to win.<\/li>\n<li>ANGELS CAMP: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/fairs\/calaveras-jumping-frog-jubilee.html\">Calaveras County Fair<\/a> Rodeo usually has an Outhouse Race. It is not officially listed in this year&#8217;s program so anything goes&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-duck-races-derbies.html\">Ducky Derbies<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>WESTPORT<b>:<\/b> Mother&#8217;s Day May Great Rubber Ducky Race May 14 at Wages Creek<\/li>\n<li>HUNTINGTON BEACH May 19-21, 2017, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/huntington-beach-duckathon.html\">Duck-a-thon<\/a> at Huntington Beach Pier<\/li>\n<li>VISTA: Duck Race launches at the Wave Waterpark\u00a0 May 21<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-soapbox-derbies.html\">Soapbox Derbies<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>DUNSMUIR: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/dunsmuir-dogwood-daze.html\"> Dogwood Daze<\/a> Soapbox Derby May 27<br \/>\nSAN DIEGO<b>: <\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/san-diego-soapbox-derby.html\">VanGo! S.T.E.A.M. Festival Derby Race<\/a>\u00a0June 10<\/li>\n<li>SUSANVILLE:\u00a0Main Cruise Classic Car Show &amp; Shine Soapbox Derby June 23-24<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While California had at least one hopeful in the recent Kentucky Derby,\u00a0on the same weekend Temecula hosted its own derby with wine-barrel race cars! The upcoming crop of derbies in the Golden State promise many winners in high-stakes competitions ranging from outhouses to soapboxes and rubber duckies! \u00a0Pictured left to right: Nevada City Soapbox Derby [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24225"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}