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Nineteen Kentucky Derby Winners Are Still Living Bold Venture, Sire of Two «; f Victors, Latest to Pass On CHURCHILL DOWNS, Louisville, Ky., lay 2. — Nineteen winners of the Kentucky Derby now survive as the result of the death of Bold Venture at the King Ranch farm outside Lexington. The 25-year-old horse won the famous event at Churchill Downs in 1936, and was the only Derby winner to sire two winners of the same race. At the time of his death Bold Venture was not the oldest of the living Derby winners. Omaha, which won the turf prize the year before Bold Venture did, has that distinction. Omaha, second of three colts to carry the Belair Stud silks to victory in the .Derby, is a pensioner at .a farm near Omaha, Neb. Bold Venture carried the racing silks of Morton L. Schwartz to victory in the Churchill Downs race. Schwartz, who- died several years ago, had bred and raced Bold Venture in all his starts. The colt was sold several years after his retirement to Robert J. Klebergs King Ranch. For the King Ranch racing stable Bold Venture sired Assault, winner of the Derby in 1946, and Middleground, which was first in the 1950 renewal. Bold Venture raced only once following his Derby triumph. He broke down in winning the Preakness and was retired. Throughout his short racing career. Bold Venture was dogged by bad luck. As a two-year-old he was being shipped to Saratoga along with a number of other horses. A fire broke out in their horse car; two horses died as a result of the blaze, and Bold Ventures life was saved by a groom who held the colts head out a door in order that he would not suffocate. Also as a two-year-old Bold Venture going to the post in one race, ran off in another in which ,he was seventh. He suffered very bad racing luck in the Hopeful Stakes of the same year.
