About Our Event🏆

💜 Saturday MAY 3rd 2025 3pm-7ish 🏇

Kentucky Derby Watch Party @ World Famous Winstar Casino Convention Center

Please join Abigail’s Arms for this inaugural signature event combining the excitement of horseracing, delicious gourmet food, signature drinks, fashion and fun at the beautiful Winstar ballroom.

Purpose🌹

Abigail’s Arms Cooke County Family Crisis Center’s mission is to provide a safe space for families in crisis, educate and empower individuals, and create awareness in our communities. 

With this event we will continue our mission in Cooke County and provide 

HOPE to survivors working through trauma. 

Event Highlights🎉

Pre-Race Commentary & Derby broadcast on site for your enjoyment throughout the event!

Off Track Betting Available through OTB within the Casino 

Contests for Best Lady's Hat, Best Gentlemen's Bowtie

Live Experience Auction  |  Online Silent Auction

Gourmet Elaborate Feast + More

Signature Drinks (Mint Julip / Kentucky Mule) and Cash Bar

And the Guest Speaker has just been Announced...


Erin Merryn – Published Writer, Acclaimed Speaker, and Founder of Erin’s Law, a groundbreaking initiative advocating for child sexual abuse prevention education across the U.S.

Erin Merryn is an internationally recognized author, speaker, and child abuse advocate and activist. She earned her MSW from Aurora University. For six years of her childhood she was sexually abused keeping her secret locked away in her childhood diary. Before graduating high school Erin published her diary into a book called Stolen Innocence. She has since published 4 more books.  

In 2013 she had Erin’s Law passed in her home state of Illinois. A law that requires personal body safety taught in public schools every year. She has made it her mission to have it passed in all 50 states. Currently Erin’s Law is in 38 states, Ontario Canada, and Kerala India.  

Since 2004, Erin has shared her story in over two hundred publications and appeared on Oprah, OWN, Today, Good Morning America, CBS This Morning, CNN, Fox, Katie Couric, Tamron Hall, MSNBC among others. In 2015 she was featured in the documentary Breaking the Silence on TLC. Glamour magazine named Erin Woman of the Year and People magazine named her one of fifteen women changing the world. Erin is married and the mother of 4 from Chicago suburbs. Erin's Law


 

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