Del Mar Race Track Hats Photos Hat Contest Images

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This article salutes those who go to the effort of making wild, creative and incredible hats for Del Mar with this photo essay.

The Hats of Del Mar
Photos Of The Kentucky Derby-style Contest and Contestants

Girls look great in thier creative hats at Del Mar Race Track.
Photo: JackFleming.com

They top off the event like a bartender adding Grand Mariner to a Cadillac margarita.

They provide as least as much entertainment as the horses and jockeys and take creativity to a whole new level.

They are the ladies and even gentlemen who show up at Del Mar Race Track in their Kentucky Derby hats, who make Opening Day a real Southern California happening. Opening Day in 2012 is July 18.

One girl made her hat from a deck of cards, another had a full-body jockey-horse combination, a gorgeous gal named Mercedes (right) looked stunning in her red flowered dress and hat and even men got into the act, a dude combining a horse head with a surfboard in a huge hat that took two hands to balance.

Del Mar rewards people's participation with a hat contest. Always at 3:05 on Opening Day, there is a parade of hats around a circle just inside the GA gates (and by a margarita stand) in which anyone can walk up and talk to people and snap photos.

The winner of the contest gets a two round-trip domestic tickets on American Airlines.

This article salutes those who go to the effort of making wild, creative and incredible hats for Del Mar with this photo essay.

Photo: JackFleming.com