Countdown to the Kentucky Derby - 74 Days to Go!
Hoop Jr., named after owner Fred W. Hooper’s son, Fred Jr., won the 1945 Kentucky Derby on the latest date that it’s ever been run.
Hoop Jr., named after owner Fred W. Hooper’s son, Fred Jr., won the 1945 Kentucky Derby on the latest date that it’s ever been run.
Pensive became the second of eight Kentucky Derby winners to be bred and owned by Calumet Farm
76 Days!!! Count Fleet was bred and owned by the the Hertz’s, of car rental fame. The brown colt was by their Derby winner, Reigh Count.
79 Days!!!Gallahadion won “The Sweetest Derby” in 1940, so named as he was owned by Mrs. Ethel V. Mars’ Milky Way Farm.
80 Days!!! Johnstown was named after Johnstown, PA, a town that had undergone several major floods, the first being 1889.
81 Days!!! Lawrin, the only Kentucky Derby winner bred in Kansas, was sometimes called “The Kansas Seabiscuit”.
82 Days!!! War Admiral, “The Mighty Atom”, was the great Man O’ War’s most famous son. He was bred and owned by Sam Riddle, who was born in Glen Riddle, Pennsylvania.
60,000 people were on hand to witness the sixty-second Derby, which was incident filled. Bold Venture was a 20-1 longshot behind the favorite, Brevity.
