Countdown to the Kentucky Derby - 111 days to go!
111 Days!!! 1908 was known as the year that Matt Winn saved the Kentucky Derby!
111 Days!!! 1908 was known as the year that Matt Winn saved the Kentucky Derby!
112 Days!!! 1907 Pink Star won the 33rd running of the Kentucky Derby, a grandson of 1883 Derby winner, Leonatus.
113 Days!!! 1906 Sir Huon was the third Kentucky Derby winner sired by Falsetto. He was bred and foaled in Louisville at Bashford Manor by his owner and breeder, George Long.
This race was the first time a bugle called the horses to post, as the bugler player “Boots and Saddles”. It was also the second and final time that a field of three went to post.
Today is 115 Days!!! 1904 Elwood was the third Kentucky Derby winner produced by a daughter of Alarm. He was the first horse to win, bred and owned by a woman.
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.
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.
