The Illinois Derby is a race for Thoroughbred horses for three-year-olds run over a distance of one and one-eighth miles (9 furlongs) on the dirt at Hawthorne Race Course in Stickney, Illinois, just west of Chicago in early April each year. The event was first run in 1923 at the Hawthorne Race Course. The purse is $250,000.
The IllinoisDerby is a race for Thoroughbred horses for three-year-olds run over a distance of one and one-eighth miles (9 furlongs) on the dirt at Hawthorne...
in the IllinoisDerby, an American Grade 2 race for three-year-olds at 1-1/8 miles on dirt held at Hawthorne Race Course in Cicero, Illinois. (List 1970-present)...
Rutherford, New Jersey. He also beat Da Hoss by two lengths to win the IllinoisDerby in Chicago. After his win in the last of these races, Krone described...
win in an allowance race at Sportsman's Park Racetrack, then won the IllinoisDerby by 6+1⁄4 lengths in wire-to-wire fashion. Prince Ahmed bin Salman of...
Nebraska, Iowa, , Michigan, Ohio, North Dakota, Washington, and Illinois. Derbies sometimes last for up to three hours. Competitors typically remove...
Thoroughbred horse racing history. He won three runnings of the Kentucky Derby and was the first jockey to be inducted into the National Museum of Racing...
Roller derby is a roller skating contact sport played on an oval track by two teams of five skaters. It is played by approximately 1,250 amateur leagues...
American Derby is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually at Arlington Park in Arlington Heights, Illinois. The inaugural American Derby was held...
Friday afternoon, May 22, 1936, Rushaway won the IllinoisDerby at Aurora Downs in Aurora, Illinois. That night, Tarn shipped the three-year-old gelding...
1936, Rushaway won the IllinoisDerby during the afternoon, then was shipped 300 miles (480 km) overnight to win the Latonia Derby the following afternoon...
The Soap Box Derby is a youth-oriented soap box car racing program which has been running in the United States since 1934. Proclaimed "the greatest amateur...
Prince Ahmed just three weeks before the race after the horse won the IllinoisDerby. The price of the horse was $900,000. Prince Faisal, his brother, succeeded...
of his win in the IllinoisDerby. At 6:1, Barbaro was the second favorite based on his undefeated record including the Florida Derby. He was attempting...
2008, Recapturetheglory was sent off as a 15-1 longshot in the 2008 IllinoisDerby at Hawthorne Race Course. Under jockey E. T. Baird, the colt scored...
The history of roller derby traces the evolution of roller skating races into a unique sport which underwent several boom-and-bust cycles throughout the...
Doris Adelaide Derby (November 11, 1939 – March 28, 2022) was an American activist and documentary photographer. She was the adjunct associate professor...
Emblem was a relative longshot at odds of 20–1, despite having won the IllinoisDerby in frontrunning fashion on April 6. Shortly after that race, he was...
two IllinoisDerby by 9 ½ lengths as he passed pacesetting Mister Triester at the top of the stretch, stamping his ticket for the Kentucky Derby. He completed...