midnight
`` Early ? '' `` Uh-huh . Early . Y ` see , Wally , the blue laws of the blue grass state make it illegal to run horseraces on Sunday , hence the start of the Derby must be early enough to let our three platers complete the race before midnight . '' `` Lieutenant , there still stands a mathematical probability that -- '' `` That the rest of the field will catch the Martian Glanders as they lead our three dogs past the clubhouse turn ? '' `` Lieutenant , you are wronging me . '' `` I have n't said a thing . ''