Countdown to the Kentucky Derby - 76 days to go!
76 Days!!! Count Fleet was bred and owned by the the Hertz’s, of car rental fame. The brown colt was by their Derby winner, Reigh Count.
76 Days!!! Count Fleet was bred and owned by the the Hertz’s, of car rental fame. The brown colt was by their Derby winner, Reigh Count.
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.
78 Days!!! Whirlaway, the flashy chestnut colt that was affectionately known to his followers as the “Calumet Comet”, or “Mr. Longtail”, was bred and owned by the famed Calumet Farm.
79 Days!!!Gallahadion won “The Sweetest Derby” in 1940, so named as he was owned by Mrs. Ethel V. Mars’ Milky Way Farm.
80 Days!!! Johnstown was named after Johnstown, PA, a town that had undergone several major floods, the first being 1889.
81 Days!!! Lawrin, the only Kentucky Derby winner bred in Kansas, was sometimes called “The Kansas Seabiscuit”.
82 Days!!! War Admiral, “The Mighty Atom”, was the great Man O’ War’s most famous son. He was bred and owned by Sam Riddle, who was born in Glen Riddle, Pennsylvania.
60,000 people were on hand to witness the sixty-second Derby, which was incident filled. Bold Venture was a 20-1 longshot behind the favorite, Brevity.
