Countdown to the Kentucky Derby- 118 days to go!
118 Days!!! 1901 was the first of two years that the Kentucky Derby was not run in May; it was on April 29th.
118 Days!!! 1901 was the first of two years that the Kentucky Derby was not run in May; it was on April 29th.
119 Days!!! 1900 Lieutenant Gibson was bred in Lexington by the well-known horsemen, Baker and Gentry. They considered Lieut. Gibson the best horse that they had ever owned.
1899 marked the 25th Kentucky Derby, but it was a bit overshadowed by the death of Kentucky Derby founder Colonel M. Lewis Clark two weeks prior.
121 Days!!!! 1898 Plaudit was a son of Himyar, who ran second to Day Star in the 1878 Kentucky Derby.
122 Days! 1897 Typhoon II was bred in Tennessee by John B. Ewing, becoming the third horse to win the Kentucky Derby bred in that state
A field of eight went to the post that day, with at least 15,000 paid attendees in the crowd, not counting those in the free infield.
124 Days!!! 1895 Halma won the first Kentucky Derby to be run under the newly designed grandstand and the famous Twin Spires.
Around 15,000 people showed up to view the 20th running of the Kentucky Derby. They braved a noon time shower that did little to dampen their spirits, but it did help to lessen the dust.
