150 Years of the Kentucky Derby in 10 Objects

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The Fighting Finish: ‘If he’d just ridden his horse, he’d have won by two or three lengths’ – reliving a notorious Kentucky Derby episode
Steve Dennis | May 1, 2024 |
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‘If you’re going to make a mistake, they say, make a big one’ – when the Shoe misjudged the winning post at Churchill Downs
Steve Dennis | Apr 26, 2024 |

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Citation: ‘He can catch and beat any horse he can see’ – when Calumet conquered all
Steve Dennis | Apr 17, 2024 |
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‘He had every intention of breeding every mare on the farm’ – recalling Northern Dancer’s earliest days at stud
Avalyn Hunter | Apr 14, 2024 |
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Ladies first – or how Regret galloped gloriously through the glass ceiling in the 1915 Kentucky Derby
Steve Dennis | Apr 12, 2024 |
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‘He had materialised as if from nowhere, which summed up his entire Derby adventure’ – reliving the unlikely tale of Canonero II
Steve Dennis | Apr 4, 2024 |
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‘The 2008 Kentucky Derby would shake racing’s complacency about its bad old habits until it cracked’
Steve Dennis | Mar 29, 2024 |
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Kentucky Derby 150th anniversary: Remembering Jet Pilot, who got the full beauty treatment by a cosmetics queen
Steve Dennis | Mar 17, 2024 |
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‘Mine That Bird has won the Kentucky Derby … an impossible result here!’ Reliving the tale of one man and his stetson
Steve Dennis | Mar 6, 2024 |
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‘A little white-faced Canadian-bred used America’s greatest race as springboard to becoming the world’s greatest stallion’
Steve Dennis | Feb 21, 2024 |