The 1935 Kentucky Derby was the 61st running of the Kentucky Derby. The race took place on May 4, 1935. The race was won by Omaha, ridden by Willie Saunders...
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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...
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Saturday in May, the day of the Kentucky Derby. The festival, Kentucky's largest single annual event, first ran from 1935 to 1937, and restarted in 1956...
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"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...
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The 1934 Kentucky Derby was the 60th running of the Kentucky Derby. The race took place on May 5, 1934. The win by the Brookmeade Stable of Isabel Dodge...
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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...
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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...
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The 1936 Kentucky Derby was the 62nd running of the Kentucky Derby. The race took place on May 2, 1936. Winning breeder: Morton L. Schwartz (KY) "Countdown...
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Invited to Derby Festival". NewspaperArchive. Middlesboro Daily News. 1935-01-25. Retrieved 2021-03-22. Fred Astaire Danced for Kentucky Archived October...
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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...
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