Jimmy Winkfield
Learn more about Jimmy Winkfield, who won the Kentucky Derby twice, 1901 and 1902, and is the most recent Black jockey to win the celebrated race.
Learn more about Jimmy Winkfield, who won the Kentucky Derby twice, 1901 and 1902, and is the most recent Black jockey to win the celebrated race.
No one experiences life quite like a Thoroughbred jockey. Here are some stories from the Kentucky Derby Museum Oral History Collection that illustrate why being a jockey is so unique.
Today we're sharing some of our Oral History Collection with Gary Stevens. Learn more about him and watch our video clips.
Chris Goodlett would like to share with you some of the highlights of this collection and how we chose to present it in the permanent exhibition, Bill Shoemaker: Larger than Life.
He was born enslaved, but became one of the greatest jockeys of all time. Meet Isaac Murphy, and learn more about his story in our permanent exhibit on African Americans in Thoroughbred Racing.
Iron Liege, a tough luck colt that was considered the 3rd best of Calumet’s 1954 crop, would go on to become Calumet’s 6th Kentucky Derby winner.
77 Days!!! 1942 Shut Out was by the champion Equipoise out of the Chicle mare, Goose Egg. Mrs. Payne Whitney bred Shut Out’s dam, Goose Egg, and gave him the appropriate name.
79 Days!!!Gallahadion won “The Sweetest Derby” in 1940, so named as he was owned by Mrs. Ethel V. Mars’ Milky Way Farm.
