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See photos of all the grit and glam from the 2024 Kentucky Derby. The annual horse-racing event, hosted at Churchill Downs, celebrated its 150th anniversary this year.
The Kentucky Derby (/ ˈ d ɜːr b i /) is an American Grade I stakes race run at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky. The race is run by three-year-old Thoroughbreds at a distance of 1 + 1 ⁄ 4 miles (10 furlongs; 2,012 metres). Colts and geldings carry 126 pounds (57 kilograms) and fillies 121 pounds (55 kilograms). [3]
Citation followed with his final Kentucky Derby prep, a win in the Derby Trial Stakes. In the Kentucky Derby , ridden by Arcaro, Citation won by 3 1 ⁄ 2 lengths over his stablemate, eventual 1949 Horse of the Year Coaltown, and Arcaro gave the widow of former jockey Al Snider a share of his Derby purse money .
The 150th Kentucky Derby was all that and more as 156,710 people were on hand to watch Mystik Dan’s thrilling victory via a photo finish in the Run for the Roses on Saturday at Churchill Downs ...
The sweet smell of mint juleps! The colorful hats and bow ties! There’s nothing like the Kentucky Derby. Held annually on the first Saturday in May, the 1.25-mile race at Churchill Downs, in ...
Black Gold went into the 1924 running of the Derby as the favorite. In 1924, the Kentucky Derby was fifty years old and was therefore celebrated as the "Golden Jubilee Derby." It was the first time a golden cup was presented to the winner and the first time "My Old Kentucky Home" was played before the race.
The last horse to win the Kentucky Derby from post position 20 was Clyde Van Dusen in 1929. Big Brown became the seventh horse to win the race undefeated. The time for the 1 + 1 ⁄ 4-mile race was 2:01.92. [12] The official Beyer Speed Figure for the race was 109. He became the first horse since Regret in 1915 to win the race with three or ...
Black jockeys once dominated - and indeed, established - the Kentucky Derby, but their stories got sidelined when African-Americans were pushed out by Jim Crow laws in the early 1900s. But a newly ...