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The Derby is frequently referred to as "The Run for the Roses", because a lush blanket of 554 red roses is awarded to the Kentucky Derby winner each year. [41] New York sports columnist and future Churchill Downs president Bill Corum in 1925 began describing the race thusly, [ 6 ] but the tradition originated in 1883 when New York City ...
This is a listing of first-place, second-place, third-place and fourth-place finishers, and the number of starters in the Kentucky Derby, a Grade I American Thoroughbred race run at 1 + 1 ⁄ 4 miles on dirt for three-year-olds. It is the first leg of the American Triple Crown, run at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky.
The 2022 Kentucky Derby (officially, the 148th Running of the Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve [1]) took place on Saturday, May 7, 2022, at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky. It was the 148th running of the Kentucky Derby, a 1 + 1 ⁄ 4 miles (2.0 km) Grade I stakes race for three-year-old Thoroughbreds. The Derby is held ...
This page lists Kentucky Derby winners. Pages in category "Kentucky Derby winners" The following 150 pages are in this category, out of 150 total. ...
Calvin Borel is the first jockey since Jerry Bailey in 1993 to win the Kentucky Oaks and Kentucky Derby in the same year. Borel won the Kentucky Oaks aboard Rachel Alexandra [4] Mine That Bird is the first Sovereign Award as champion two-year-old colt (2008) in Canada to win the Kentucky Derby since Sunny's Halo (1983) [4] Mine That Bird ...
“The one thing that continues is you got 20 of the best 3-year-olds from around the world,” said trainer Doug O’Neill, a two-time Derby winner. “It seems like the one mainstay that we can ...
The Kentucky Derby is only open to three-year-old Thoroughbreds, [8] thus entrants in the 2019 race were foaled in 2016, mostly as part of the North America foal crop of roughly 22,500. [ 9 ] [ a ] The field is limited to twenty horses who qualify based on points earned in the 2019 Road to the Kentucky Derby , a series of designated races that ...
The 2002 Kentucky Derby was the 128th running of the Kentucky Derby. The race took place on May 4, 2002, [ 2 ] and 145,033 people were in attendance. [ 3 ] The race was won by War Emblem who led from start to finish.