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?mt??TTT?TTTTtTTTtTT??TT?TT?TTttT 1 Do You i I Know — 2 p?tTtTrtT»It»tftt»tTtlTTTt IttTTTtTf ? I. Murphy, the famous negro rider, was one of the two jockeys who rode three Kentucky Derby winners. Murphys three were Buchanan, in 1884 ; Riley, in 1890, and Kingman, in 1891? fj Old Rosebud holds the mile and a quarter Derby running time record of 2:03%, established in 1914? • • Paul Jones was the first winner to carry 126 pounds? ??__ One winner carried only 97 pounds. This was Vagrant, in 1876, the second year of the Derbys running? 11 Three times the field consisted of only three contestants. This was in 1892, 1899 and 1906? 11 For the first twenty-one years the Derby distance was a mile and a half? 11 . As late as 1916 the valne to the winner was less than 0,000? 11 The last filly to finish in the money was Prudery, in 1921? 11 Alan-a-Hale, the winner in 1902, was sired by Halma, the winner in 1895? 11 The Derby, unlike most fixtures of long standing, has never missed an annual renewal? 11 Colonel Johnson, president of what was then the Nashville Blood Horse Association, started the first Derby field? 11 Roscoe Goose, who Is now associated with Senator J. N. Camden, in the racing of his horses, rode the winner of 1913, Donerail? — it— Broomstick sired two Derby winners-Meridian, 1911, and Regret, the only filly that ever won the race, 1915? — ??— E. R. Bradley colts twice finished one-two in the race. They were : Behave Yourself and Black Servant, in 1921, and Bubbling Over and Bagenbaggage, in 1926? —11 H. P. Whitney won both the Preakness and the Derby in 1927, Bostonian winning the Preakness and Whiskery the Derby. The pair went in both races? 11 One of the most famous winning combinations in early history was the colt, Hindoo, and the jockey, J. McLaughlin. Hindoo won in 1881? 11 The nearest approach to Old Rosebuds record was that of Bubbling Over, which ran the mile and a quarter in 2:03%? 11 The only winner of a winter Derby to ever win the Kentucky was Black Gold, in 1924? 11 G. Lewis, who rode Arlstldes, the first Derby winner, also rode two other winners, which were Fonso, in 1880, and Montrose, in 1887? 11 Black Gold paid the shortest price of any winner since Morvich. The winning tickets on Black Gold were equivalent to .75 to 91. Morvich, in 1922, paid .20? 11— Zev, largest money winner on the American turf, paid 9.20 to when he won the Derby? _?? Flying Ebony, winner in 1926, was one of the "field"? 11 The slowest time for the Derby, over the one and one-quarter miles distance, was made by the winner, Stonestreet, 2:15y5, in 1908? 11 That W. Knapp, who rode Exterminator to victory in 1918, is training and will saddle The Nut for the Derby for the Warm Stable? 11 The most valuable Derby ever ran was that of 1928, won by Reigh Count, whose winning share amounted to 5,375? 11 The fastest Derby run at the original distance of one and one-half miles was by Spokane, in 1889, the time being 2:34%? 11 The Derby has been won by forty- seven colts, six geldings and one filly?
