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Five Riders Have Earned Laurels In Derby and During Meeting CHURCHILL DOWNS, Louisville, Ky., May 1. — Five jockeys have ridden a winner of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs here and went on to become leading riders at the same race meeting. A number of other reinsmen have claimed both honors at the Louisville track during its eighty-four years of operation, but none of the others gained the dual distinction during a single program. Not since jockey C. Bierman brought Gallahadion to the wire a winner in the 1940 Kentucky Derby and finished out that spring meeting with more winners than any of the other seventy-one riders in action j at Churchill Downs has a jockey taken »oth honors. At the end of that nineteen-Jay I program, Bierman had averaged one winning race a day to beat out jockey W. Eads, who had sixteen victories. The first jockey to gain the dual honor , was Isaac Murphy, also the first to win the Kentucky Derby three times. Murphy rode his first Derby winner in 1884 on Buchanan. At the same spring program he rode six winners, which gave him first place among the jockeys.
