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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.
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.
116 Days!!! 1903 Judge Himes was bred and foaled by Johnson H. Camden at his Hartland Farm.
117 Days!!! 1902 was a year of change at Churchill Downs. The Maxwell Starting machine made its first appearance at the track.
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.
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.
