The KentuckyDerby (/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 KentuckyDerby Is Decadent and Depraved" is a seminal sports article written by journalist Hunter S. Thompson on the 1970 KentuckyDerby, which first...
bull rider. Nafzger trained Unbridled, who won the 1990KentuckyDerby and Breeders' Cup Classic. In 1990, he was voted the Eclipse Award for Outstanding...
The KentuckyDerby Museum is an American Thoroughbred horse racing museum located on the grounds of Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky. Dedicated...
2001) was a champion American Thoroughbred racehorse who won the 1990KentuckyDerby and Breeders' Cup Classic. He retired with a career record of eight...
The 1991 KentuckyDerby was the 117th running of the KentuckyDerby. The race took place on May 4, 1991, with 135,554 people in attendance. Heading into...
view on the distinction of a Kentucky colonel commission and only issued about a dozen new commissions annually, on Derby Day. Governor Keen Johnson followed...
The 1989 KentuckyDerby was the 115th running of the KentuckyDerby. The race took place on May 6, 1989, with 122,653 people in attendance. The race took...
Clark Jr. along with the KentuckyDerby, the Clark Handicap, and the Falls City Handicap. The Kentucky Oaks and the KentuckyDerby are the oldest continuously...
national American television networks and announcers that have broadcast KentuckyDerby. In 2014, NBC renewed its broadcast agreement with Churchill Downs through...
Louisville, Kentucky, serving as the kickoff event of the KentuckyDerby Festival. It is held on a Saturday in April preceding the KentuckyDerby, the first...
or 1990 in Aragua, Venezuela). He rode Rich Strike to victory in the 2022 KentuckyDerby and the second largest payout to win in history of the Derby. Rich...
third-place and fourth-place finishers, and the number of starters in the KentuckyDerby, a Grade I American Thoroughbred race run at 1+1⁄4 miles on dirt for...
makes American Pharoah a great-grandson of Unbridled, who won the 1990KentuckyDerby and the Breeders' Cup Classic. He carries lines to Grade I champions...
has been run five weeks before the KentuckyDerby, which is held on the first Saturday in May. Thus the Florida Derby is currently run either at the end...
to have won both the KentuckyDerby and the Epsom Derby. Cauthen, the son of a trainer and a farrier, grew up in Walton, Kentucky, around horses, which...
verse and chorus are recited annually at the KentuckyDerby. Colonel Matt Winn introduced the song as a Derby tradition. As early as 1930, Foster's song...
When retired to stud, he became a major sire whose offspring included KentuckyDerby winner Unbridled. He was named for Joseph C. Nichols (1905–1984), a...
the 2024 KentuckyDerby by a nose, beating Sierra Leone and Forever Young with a time of 2:03.34. Mystik Dan is a bay colt bred in Kentucky by Lance Gasaway...
(1995–2000) was a black thoroughbred gelding who contended the 1998 KentuckyDerby, despite having won none of his previous fifteen races, a record number...
day in American horse racing, the KentuckyDerby, is preceded by the two-week Derby Festival in Louisville. The Derby Festival features many events, including...
racehorse owner who won America's two most important races, the 1990KentuckyDerby and Breeders' Cup Classic Lewis A. Grant (1828-1918), American Civil...
Farms, Empire Maker was sired by champion Unbridled, winner of the 1990KentuckyDerby and Breeders' Cup Classic. Empire Maker's dam, Toussaud, was the...
by Grindstone, winner of the 1996 KentuckyDerby, who in turn was sired by Unbridled, who won the 1990KentuckyDerby. Unbridled was in turn sired by Fappiano...
the KentuckyDerby. Inaugurated in 1935, the Santa Anita Derby has long been considered the most important West Coast stepping-stone to the Kentucky Derby...
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