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The track reported a wagering total of $209.2 million from all the sources on all the races on the Kentucky Derby Day program. It was a 9 percent increase compared to the total of $192.6 million in 2016 and an increase of 8 percent over the previous record set in 2015 of $194.3 million. [ 29 ]
In 2018, Smith became the rider of Justify, who, after winning two races with the horse in California, won the 2018 Kentucky Derby. In doing so, the horse broke the 136-year-old "curse of Apollo" by winning the Kentucky Derby without having raced at 2 years of age. The last time this feat was accomplished was by Apollo in the 1882 race. [12]
By 2024, McPeek had reached 2,000th career wins, with this milestone achieved on February 21, at Turfway Park. [8] On May 4, McPeek's horse Mystik Dan won the 150th Kentucky Derby, giving McPeek individual wins in all three of the American Triple Crown races. [6] As of September 21, McPeek has career earnings of $128,467,789. [1]
This was the first Kentucky Derby for all of Mystik Dan’s owners. The Derby fractions were :22.97 for the opening quarter of a mile, :46.63 for the opening half-mile and 1:11.31 for the opening ...
Owned by Lance Gasaway, 4 G Racing (Brent Gasaway) and Daniel Hamby — all making their first appearance in the Kentucky Derby — Mystik Dan improved to 3-1-1 in seven career starts and earned ...
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.
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
Rich Strike is the second-biggest longshot to have won the Kentucky Derby after Donerail (91:1 odds) in 1913. [4] He was not in the field until Ethereal Road was scratched the day before, with Rich Strike being added from the also-eligible list for the Derby. [5] [6] Owner Richard Dawson found out about the change just 30 seconds before the ...