Countdown to the Kentucky Derby - 116 days to go!
116 Days!!! 1903 Judge Himes was bred and foaled by Johnson H. Camden at his Hartland Farm.
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.
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.
