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The 2024 Road to the Kentucky Derby is a series of races through which horses qualified for the 2024 Kentucky Derby, which was held on May 4.The field for the Derby was limited to 20 horses, with up to four 'also eligibles' in case of a late withdrawal from the field.
The Derby is held annually on the first Saturday in May, at the end of the two-week-long Kentucky Derby Festival. It is a Grade I stakes race for three-year-old Thoroughbreds at a distance of 1 + 1 ⁄ 4 miles (2.0 km), and has been run at Churchill Downs racetrack since its inception in 1875.
The event was inaugurated on 9 March 1935, when Head Play defeated Top Row and Ladysman on a muddy track by 2 lengths in a time of 1:51 4 ⁄ 5 before a crowd of 45,000 on the closing day of Santa Anita meeting. [1] In 1937 an even greater crowd came to witness Seabiscuit set a new track record for the 1 + 1 ⁄ 8 miles winning by 7 lengths. [2]
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The Rebel Stakes is a Grade II American Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-old horses held over a distance of one and one-sixteenth miles run on dirt each February at Oaklawn Park Race Track in Hot Springs, Arkansas.
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