Lucky in Yearling Purchases, Daily Racing Form, 1950-05-06

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Lucky in Yearling Purchases CHURCHILL DOWNS, Louisville. Ky., May 5. — T. J. Nichols, own of the winner Day Star in the 1878 Derby, purchased the colt for 25 as a yearling. This marked, the second time Nichols, a resident of Bourbon County, Kentucky, had purchased a Derby winner as a yearling. In 1864, he had purchased Vagrant, winner in 1876 when that son of Virgil, was a yearling, but he later sold him.


Persistent Link: https://drf.uky.edu/catalog/1950s/drf1950050601/drf1950050601_11_4
Local Identifier: drf1950050601_11_4
Library of Congress Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/unk82075800