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Fonso (1877–1903) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse and was the winner of the 1880 Kentucky Derby under jockey George Garret Lewis. [1] Fonso was bred in Kentucky [2] and was a chestnut colt sired by King Alfonso out of the mare Weatherwitch.
The Derby Stakes, also known as the Derby or the Epsom Derby, is a Group 1 flat horse race in England open to three-year-old colts and fillies. It is run at Epsom Downs Racecourse in Surrey on the first Saturday of June each year, over a distance of one mile, four furlongs and 10 yards (2,423 metres), or about 1½ miles. [ 1 ]
1880 Kentucky Derby winner Fonso. Location: Churchill Downs: Date: May 18, 1880: Winning horse: Fonso: ... The 1880 Kentucky Derby was the 6th running of the Kentucky ...
Apollo (1879–1887) was a champion American Thoroughbred racehorse who won the 1882 Kentucky Derby. He was the only horse to have won the Derby without racing at age two until Justify equalled the achievement in 2018. Apollo went on to race 21 times as a three-year-old, 30 times as a four-year-old, and 4 times as a five-year-old.
Lord Murphy did not race well in Britain, [4] being unplaced in the 1880 Chatsworth Handicap Plate at Derby and the 1881 Visitors Plate run at the Craven meeting. [5] He acquired a "savage" temper [6] and became a "roarer", an ailment that Keene thought developed secondary to the change in weather between the United States and England. [7]
Held annually without fail since 1875, the Kentucky Derby is the oldest continuously run sporting event in America. Set to take place on May 7, the most famous horse race in the entire world means...
What’s the slowest winning time in the history of the Kentucky Derby? A plucky turtle is in the running. These horses — and one turtle — have the slowest win times in Kentucky Derby history
Blue Gown (1865 – November 25, 1880) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse that was the winner of the 1868 Epsom Derby and Ascot Gold Cup.He was one of the best colts of his generation at two, three years and four of age, but his form declined in 1870 after an unsuccessful period in France.