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I in Kentucky Derby Lore I * I Forty-nine per cent of the post-time favorites have won. | Regret is the only filly that ever triumphed in the Kentucky Derby. I The Derby has been won by fifty-two colts, eight geldings and one fillv. The longest-priced Derby winner was Donerail. He paid 92 to 1 when he won in 1913. J " The largest field that ever paraded to the post in the Derby was in 1928 when Reigh I Count conquered twenty-one rivals. ♦ I Sir Barton, Gallant Fox, Burgoo King and Omaha are the only horses to date to t win both the Derby and the Preakness. | The most valuable Derby ever run was the 1928 renewal, won by Reigh Count. ! The winners share that year amounted to 5,375. I Buchanan, winner in 1884, Sir Barton, 1919, and Brokers Tip, 1933, are the only | horses that have won the Kentucky Derby as maidens. I The Derby fields have averaged ten starters. In the sixty-one years of its history, J a total of 614 horses have striven for the golden honors. 1 The Derby, since its inauguration in 1875, has been run at two distances. Until J 1896 it was one and a half miles. Since then it has been a test of one mile and i a quarter. I The smaUest field numbered three starters. In 1892 it consisted of Azra, Huron ant Phil Dwyer. In 1899 Manuel defeated Corsini and Mazo. In 1905 Agile had only i i Rams Horn and Layson to beat. The fastest Derby run at the longer distance was in 1889 when Spokane won in J 2:341i:. Twenty Grand set the record for the mile and a quarter in 1931, when ] he covered the distance in 2:01*5. | Omar Khayyam was the first and only imported thoroughbred to win the famous i classic. While Cavalcade is sometimes referred to as a foreign-bred, he was J brought in utero to the Meadowview Farms of F. Wallis Armstrong in New J Jersey, and there foaled. | Isaac Murphy, the old-time colored rider, and Earl Sande, are the only jockeys that rode three Derby winners. Murphy had the mount on Buchanan, 1884; iever Riley, 1890, and Kingman, 1891. Sande rode Zev in 1923; Flying Ebony, 1925, , and Gallant Fox in 1930. Only three Kentucky Derby winners have ever sired a winner of the event. Halma ! won in 1895. Seven years later his son, Alan-a-Dale, duplicated the feat. Bubbling Over won in 1925. Burgoo King, his son, won in 1932. Gallant Fox won in I 1930. Omaha, his son, won in 1935. Virgil and Falsetto are the only sires whose get won three Derbys. Virgil sired | Vagrant, which won in 1876; Hindoo, winner in 1881, and Ben Ali, the victor in I 1886. Falsetto sired Chant, winner in 1894, His Eminence, which won in 1901, ! and Sir Huon, conqueror of the field in 1906. | Only three owners have the honor of winning the Derby twice; H. P. Whitney won in 1915 with Regret and in 1927 with Whiskery. Azra, in 1892, and Sir Huon, in | 1906, carried the colors of George J. Long. Gallant Fox won in 1930 for William j Woodward, then sired Omaha, winner in 1935. j Kentucky has produced the majority of winners, forty-one being bred in the Blue I Grass state. New Jersey has furnished four, Tennessee three, California three New York two, Pennsylvania, Alabama, Montana, Missouri, Ohio, Oklahoma and !* Virginia each one, with Omar Khayyam hailing from England. Willie Simms, Winkfield, Johnny Loftus and Albert Johnson rode two winners. | Simms had the leg up on Ben Brush, 1896, and Plaudit, 1898. Winkfields mounts were His Eminence, 1901, and Alan-a-Dale, 1902. Loftus rode George Smith, 1916, i and Sir Barton, 1919. Johnsons winning mounts were Morvich, 1922, and Bubbling Over, 1926. Edward R. Bradley is the only owner with four winners to his credit. Behave Yourself won for him in 1921, Bubbling Over scored in 1926 and then sired i Burgoo King, the 1932 winner for Mr. Bradley. Brokers Tip was successful in 1933. The owner of Idle Hour Farm also has the distinction of having furnished I the winner and second horse on two occasions: 1921 and 1926. I There have been five winners bred at Woodburn Stud of A. J. Alexander at Spring I Station, Kentucky. Five winners have been bred at J. E. Maddens Hamburg • Place. E. R. Bradleys Idle Hour Farm, in Kentucky, has provided four winners. I G. J. Longs Bashford Manor Stud, three, and H. P. Whitney, Milton Young, I James B. Haggin, D. Swigert, W. S. Kilmer and Belair Stud of William Wood- f ward have credit for two each. f J Longfellow, King Alfonso, Broomstick, The Finn, McGee and Black Toney each i number two Derby winners among their progeny. Longfellows winning get I were Leonatus, 1883, and Riley, 1890. King Alfonso was the sire of Fonso, 1880, | and Joe Cotton, 1885. Broomstick has the unique distinction of having sired the • only filly winner, Regret, 1915. Meridian, in 1911, was his first winner. McGee t sired Donerail, 1913, and Exterminator, 1916. Zev, 1923, and Flying Ebony, 1925, I are sons of The Finn. Black Toney sired Black Gold, 1924, and Brokers Tip, j 1933.
