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J?????????????7??T??????????????T?T?0 1 Do You 2 1 Know — I J??Tmmi???TT??m????*T?m????? • • Old Rosebuds record of 2:03?5 for the event, over one and one-quarter miles, stood as the Churchill Downs track rec-or 1 until 1916 when Woodtrap lowered it by one-fifth of a second? H The longest priced Derby winner was Donerail, which paid 92 to 1 when he won in 1913? H The largest field ever to start in the Derby was in 1928 when Reigh Count conquered twenty-one rivals? H Three owners have each won the Derby twice. George J. Long won 1892 with Azra and in 1906 with Sir Huon ; H. P. Whitney won in 1915 with Regret and in 1927 with Whiskery ; E. R. Bradley won in 1921 with Behave Yourself and in 1926 with Bubbling Over? H Thirty-six winners have been bred In Kentucky? Three were bred in each of these states : New Jersey, Tennessee and California. The states to provide one winner each are Pennsylvania, Alabama, Montana, Missouri, Ohio, New York, Oklahoma and Virginia. Omar Khayyam, the foreign-bred winner, came from England? Fire winners were bred at Woodbnrn Stud of A. J. Alexander, at Spring Station, Ky. ; five were bred at J. E. Maddens Hamburg Place ; three at G. J. Longs Bashford Manor Stud, and two winners were bred by each of these : H. P. Whitney. E. R. Bradley, Milton Young. James B. Haggin. D. Swigert and W. S. Kilmer? 11 ilne has b?en the average number of Derby starters. Four hundred and ninety horses have striven for the golden honors in the fifty-four years of its history? 11 The highest number of nominations was 196. in 1928. Only once since 1922 has the list fallen below 140? 11 The slowest lime for the Derby, over the one and one-quarter miles distance, was made by the winner, Stonestreet, 2:15Ms, in 1908? That W« Knapp, who rode Exterminator to victory in 1918, is training and will saddle Upset Lad for the Derby for the Belle Isle Stable? 11 The most valuable Derby ever run was that of 1928, won by Reigh Count, whose winning share amounted to 3,375? 11 The fastest Derby run at the original distance of one and one-half miles was by Spokane, in 1SS9, the time being 2:34 Ms? 11 I!. 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 , 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? 11 Old Rosebud holds the mile and a quarter Derby running time record of 2:03%, established in 1914? 11 Paul Jones was the first winner to carry 126 pounds? 11 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 1S92, 1S99 and 1906? 11 For the first twenty-one years the Derbj distance was a mile and a half? 11 As late as 1918 the value to the winner was less than 0,000? 11 The last filly to finish in the money was Prudery, in 1921? 11 Alan-a-Dale, 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? — 11— Broomstick sired two Derby winners — Meridian, 1911, and Regret, the only filly that ever won the race, 1915? — ?2— E. R. Bradley colts twice finNhed one-two in the race. They were : Behave Yourself and Black Servant, in 1921, and Bubbling Over and Bagenbaggage, in 1926? JT 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 Aristides, the first Derby winner, also rode two other winners, which were Fonso, in 1880, and Montrose, in 1887? 11 Zev, largest money winner on the American turf, paid 9.20 to when he won the Derby? ~~Li — The Derby has been won by forty-seven colts, six geldings and one filly? 1 1 Flying Ebony, winner In 1925, was one of the "field"?
