To See Her Fiftieth Derby, Daily Racing Form, 1924-05-16

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• * 0 i0 K 10 . 0 0 n e ■ TO SEE HER FIFTIETH DERBY LOUISVILLE, Ky.. May 15.— The lure of | a horse race win bring Mrs. Susan A. Sher-« ley, 92, to Churchill Downs May 17, when i she plans for the fiftieth time to witness the ! running of the Kentucky Derby, she an- I nounced today. Mrs. Sherley is the widow of Capt. Zachary 1 Sherley, who in the heydey of river traffic operated a number of steamboats on the i Ohio river. Mrs. Sherley has never laid a wager on j any Derby horse, she said, from the time of j Axistides, in 1S75, down to Zev, in 1923.


Persistent Link: https://drf.uky.edu/catalog/1920s/drf1924051601/drf1924051601_10_4
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Library of Congress Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/unk82075800