• The 1988 Kentucky Derby was the 114th running of the Kentucky Derby. The race took place on May 7, 1988, with 137,694 people in attendance. $2 Exacta:...
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    The Kentucky Derby (/ˈdɜːrbi/) is an American Grade I stakes race run at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky. The race is run by three-year-old Thoroughbreds...
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  • "The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved" is a seminal sports article written by journalist Hunter S. Thompson on the 1970 Kentucky Derby, which first...
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  • national American television networks and announcers that have broadcast Kentucky Derby. In 2014, NBC renewed its broadcast agreement with Churchill Downs through...
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  • The 1968 Kentucky Derby was the 94th running of the Kentucky Derby. The race took place on May 4, 1968. The race was the first Kentucky Derby in which...
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  • The 1987 Kentucky Derby was the 113th running of the Kentucky Derby. The race took place on May 2, 1987, with 130,532 people in attendance. Winning Breeder:...
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  • Louisville, Kentucky, nicknamed "Derby City" because it hosts the Kentucky Derby Derby (surname) Derby Carrillo (born 1987), Salvadoran footballer Derby Chukwudi...
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  • Started in 1973, it was part of the Kentucky Derby Festival in Louisville, Kentucky, leading up to the Kentucky Derby horse race. The Classic was sponsored...
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    Clark Jr. along with the Kentucky Derby, the Clark Handicap, and the Falls City Handicap. The Kentucky Oaks and the Kentucky Derby are the oldest continuously...
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    became a professional jockey in 1979 and rode his first of three Kentucky Derby winners in 1988. He had nine wins in Triple Crown races, winning the Preakness...
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  • The 1989 Kentucky Derby was the 115th running of the Kentucky Derby. The race took place on May 6, 1989, with 122,653 people in attendance. The race took...
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  • Winning Colors (horse) (category Kentucky Derby winners)
    spring of 1988, the large filly won the Santa Anita Derby, defeating colts her age by 7½ lengths. Sent to Churchill Downs for the 1988 Kentucky Derby, she...
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  • third-place and fourth-place finishers, and the number of starters in the Kentucky Derby, a Grade I American Thoroughbred race run at 1+1⁄4 miles on dirt for...
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  • went on to triumph in Kentucky. In 1988, Winning Colors became the first and to date only filly to win both Derbies. Santa Anita Derby winners have also been...
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    day in American horse racing, the Kentucky Derby, is preceded by the two-week Derby Festival in Louisville. The Derby Festival features many events, including...
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    verse and chorus are recited annually at the Kentucky Derby. Colonel Matt Winn introduced the song as a Derby tradition. As early as 1930, Foster's song...
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  • Louisiana Derby have gone on to win the Kentucky Derby: Black Gold in 1924, and Grindstone in 1996. The 1988 winner, Risen Star, went on to become a "Dual...
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    Aristides (horse) (category Kentucky Derby winners)
    an American Thoroughbred racehorse that won the first Kentucky Derby in 1875. In 1875, the Derby was raced at a mile and a half, the distance it would...
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  • the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, and Belmont Stakes, though not all in the same year. In 1974, when he was 31, Cordero won the Kentucky Derby aboard...
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    Strike the Gold (category Kentucky Derby winners)
    21, 1988 – December 13, 2011) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning the 1991 Kentucky Derby. Upon the death of 1987 Derby winner...
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    Steve Cauthen (category Sportspeople from Covington, Kentucky)
    to have won both the Kentucky Derby and the Epsom Derby. Cauthen, the son of a trainer and a farrier, grew up in Walton, Kentucky, around horses, which...
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  • Championships in Lexington, Kentucky at Keeneland Race Course Animal Kingdom: American Thoroughbred racehorse; won 137th Kentucky Derby and 2013 Dubai World...
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  • Forty Niner (horse) (category Racehorses bred in Kentucky)
    betting favorites to win the 1988 Kentucky Derby. Although he drew the disadvantageous post position seventeen in the Derby, with rider Pat Day riding he...
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  • three-year-old graded stakes, the Rebel Stakes and the Arkansas Derby, and then take the Kentucky Derby. Smarty Jones's collected the bonus. The exposure from...
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  • the 1988 Kentucky Derby. This list contains the current 2007 standings that leads to the Belmont Stakes race. Derby 2007 Prep Race Schedule | Kentucky Derby...
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  • 20 Track Condition: Fast Total Attendance: 86,106 1988 Kentucky Derby Daily Racing Form, May 22, 1988 Preakness Stakes Chart. 2010 Preakness Stakes Media...
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  • Bataan Death March. Winning Colors, 23, American racehorse, won 1988 Kentucky Derby, euthanized. Grits Gresham, 85, American conservationist, sportsman...
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    COVID-19 in 2020. However, he later recovered from the illness. Kentucky Derby Winning Colors (1988) Thunder Gulch (1995) Grindstone (1996) Charismatic (1999)...
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  • Male Horse, and becomes one of the early favorites for the next year's Kentucky Derby. In 2006, the National Thoroughbred Racing Association (NTRA) wrote...
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    the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, and Belmont Stakes. The three races were inaugurated in different years, the last being the Kentucky Derby in 1875...
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