They're not allowed to touch the worm or the board once the race starts. I'm not sure how he's training them.īut people blow on them, clap for them, cheer them on. And we've checked his worms out and can't find anything illegal. He's won the big race twice - once on a Saturday and once on a Sunday - and then he's won some semifinals. We do have one guy that's won three times. In the history of the festival, there's not been a worm like, well, Secretariat or Man-o-War? HANSEN: Oh, I didn't realize there were show worms and racing worms. I take mine to all the restaurants and public schools for about three weeks and do that. HANSEN: Roy, do you have a worm in this race? KREGE: They were so close to each other that some of the fans booed when we declared who the winner was. well, do worms now have noses? I mean, what was it? We already had one controversial call, like you do in all official events. KREGE: Because the worms really get in a good race. If a worm's really racing, he'll be up there within a minute. HANSEN: So, if the worms are racing approximately, as you said, three, four feet to the finish line, how long does the race last? So, we have some tight regulations just like the Olympics do. We feel that only the winning worm is strong enough to predict what the weather's going to be for the mountain, and that's only after the veterinarian checks it out to be sure it's steroid, stimulant free, there's been no singing or anything like that. HANSEN: So, the winner gets to predict the mountain weather? And the great thing is that they get to predict the mountain weather. We'll race about eight semifinals and a final race. KREGE: Well, we race 25 worms at a time up a 42-inch race lane. HANSEN: This weekend, how many races are you running and how many worms are involved? ROY KREGE (Annual Wooly Worm Festival): Thank you very much, Liane. Roy Krege has been involved in the festival from the beginning and he's in Banner Elk. For over 30 years, Banner Elk, North Carolina, has held a wooly worm festival, where one of the events is a race to see which worm will be this winter's Nostradamus. But if it is narrow, prepare for lots of snow days home from school. The wider the copper band around the worm's middle, the milder the weather. According to legend, a wooly worm can predict the weather that might be coming in any given winter.
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