1959 Kentucky Derby information

The 1959 Kentucky Derby was the 85th running of the Kentucky Derby. The race took place on May 2, 1959. Winning breeder: Captain David H. Wills (U.K.)...

The Kentucky Derby (/ˈdɜːrbi/) is an American Grade I stakes race run at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky. The race is run by three-year-old Thoroughbreds...

"The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved" is a seminal sports article written by journalist Hunter S. Thompson on the 1970 Kentucky Derby, which first...

Clark Jr. along with the Kentucky Derby, the Clark Handicap, and the Falls City Handicap. The Kentucky Oaks and the Kentucky Derby are the oldest continuously...

national American television networks and announcers that have broadcast Kentucky Derby. In 2014, NBC renewed its broadcast agreement with Churchill Downs through...

The 1958 Kentucky Derby was the 84th running of the Kentucky Derby. The race took place on May 3, 1958. Winning breeder: Calumet Farm (KY) "Countdown...

The 1960 Kentucky Derby was the 86th running of the Kentucky Derby. The race took place on May 7, 1960. "Countdown to the Kentucky Derby | Remembering...

29, 1971) was a British-bred Thoroughbred racehorse who won the 1959 Kentucky Derby defeating Sword Dancer, First Landing, Royal Orbit and the filly...

located on Central Avenue in south Louisville, Kentucky, United States, famed for hosting the annual Kentucky Derby. It officially opened in 1875 and was named...

The Kentucky Derby Open was a PGA Tour event in Kentucky that was played at Seneca Golf Course in Louisville in the late 1950s. Gary Player won his first...

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...

Year, and First Landing, champion juvenile in 1958 and third in the 1959 Kentucky Derby. He also owned Cicada, champion filly at two, three, and four and...

who won the 1959 Kentucky Derby. Kerr also traded horses that won the Aintree Grand National, the Grand Prix de Paris, the French Derby, the Irish 2...

starts at age two. At age three, he began to develop and in the 1959 Kentucky Derby was beaten by a nose by Tomy Lee in a stretch duel. When Tomy Lee...

Decidedly (March 3, 1959 – November 12, 1984) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse who is best known for winning the 1962 Kentucky Derby. Decidedly was a...

1941, 1944, 1963, 1964, and 1971. Notable past winners include the 1959 Kentucky Derby winner, Tomy Lee and the 2001 Champion Sprinter and winner of the...

scheduled on Kentucky Derby Day at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky. The current purse is $600,000. Originally, the event was known as the Derby Trial...

ran third in the California Derby, won the 1959 Preakness, and in 1909 Joe Madden, who ran second in the California Derby to High Private, won the Belmont...

three-year-old graded stakes, the Rebel Stakes and the Arkansas Derby, and then take the Kentucky Derby. Smarty Jones's collected the bonus. The exposure from...

verse and chorus are recited annually at the Kentucky Derby. Colonel Matt Winn introduced the song as a Derby tradition. As early as 1930, Foster's song...

(1959), Jaipur (1962), Damascus (1967) and Avatar (1975) Two of Shoemaker's most noted rides were in the Kentucky Derby. He lost the 1957 Kentucky Derby...

Anita Derby. In his only out-of-the-money finish in twenty career races, Royal Orbit ran fourth to winner Tomy Lee in the 1959 Kentucky Derby under jockey...

horses. The name "Derby" (deriving from the sponsorship of the Earl of Derby) has been borrowed many times, notably by the Kentucky Derby in the United States...

descendant of Nearco through his damsire First Landing who won the 1959 Kentucky Derby. Raced under Mellon's Rokeby Stables colors, Run the Gantlet was...

event (excluding majors) in the state in 59 years, since the Kentucky Derby Open in 1959. (Valhalla Golf Club near Louisville hosted the PGA Championship...

Louis B. Mayer and owned by Helena Gregory Braunstein. Fourth in the 1959 Kentucky Derby after a rough start but strong comeback drive, Royal Orbit then gave...

the Kentucky Derby. Inaugurated in 1935, the Santa Anita Derby has long been considered the most important West Coast stepping-stone to the Kentucky Derby...