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The odds of owning a horse who races in the Kentucky Derby are pretty slim. All Derby horses are 3-year-olds, meaning each horse has just one chance in its lifetime to race the Kentucky Derby. According to the Churchill Downs communications department, approximately 26,000 thoroughbreds were foaled in the United States in 2010. Just 1.4 percent (369) of those horses were nominated to the Triple Crown, and only 20 will race on Saturday in the 139th Kentucky Derby.

Initially a successful venue, the track ran into financial difficulties due to a protracted, gambling-related horseman boycott removing it from the upper echelons of racing that would last until the Winn era (see below). In 1894 the New Louisville Jockey Club was incorporated with the new capitalization and improved facilities. Despite this, the business floundered until 1902, when a syndicate led by Col. Matt Winn of Louisville acquired the facility. Under Winn, Churchill Downs prospered, and the Kentucky Derby then became the preeminent stakes race for three-year-old thoroughbred horses in North America.

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Thoroughbred owners began sending their successful Derby horses to compete in two other races. These two are the Preakness Stakes at the Pimlico Race Course, in Baltimore, and the Belmont Stakes in Elmont, New York. The three races offered large purses, and in 1919 Sir Barton became the first horse to win all three races. However, the term Triple Crown did not come into use for another eleven years. In 1930, when Gallant Fox became the second horse to win all three races, sportswriter Charles Hatton brought the phrase into American usage. Fueled by the media, public interest in the possibility of a "superhorse" that could win the Triple Crown began in the weeks leading up to the Derby. Two years after the term went in use, the race (until that time ran in mid-May since inception) changed the date to the first Saturday in May. This change allows for a specific schedule for the Triple Crown races. Since 1931, the order of Triple Crown races has been the Kentucky Derby first, followed by the Preakness Stakes and then the Belmont Stakes. Before 1931, eleven times the Preakness was run before the Derby. On May 12, 1917, and again on May 13, 1922, the Preakness and the Derby took place on the same day. On eleven occasions the Belmont Stakes was run before the Preakness Stakes, and in 2020, the Belmont was run first, then the Kentucky Derby, and the Preakness Stakes last.

On May 16, 1925, the first live radio broadcast of the Kentucky Derby aired on WHAS as well as on WGN in Chicago.[8] On May 7, 1949, the first television coverage of the Kentucky Derby took place, produced by WAVE-TV, the NBC affiliate in Louisville. This coverage was aired live in the Louisville market and sent to NBC as a kinescope newsreel recording for national broadcast. On May 3, 1952, the first national television coverage of the Kentucky Derby took place, aired from then-CBS affiliate WHAS-TV.[9] In 1954, the purse exceeded US$100,000 for the first time. In 1968, Dancer's Image became the first horse to win the race and then face disqualification. A urine test revealed traces of phenylbutazone (an anti-inflammatory painkiller drug) inside Dancer's Image. Forward Pass won after a protracted legal battle by the owners of Dancer's Image (which they lost). Forward Pass thus became the eighth winner for Calumet Farm. Unexpectedly, the regulations at Kentucky thoroughbred race tracks were changed some years later, allowing horses to run on phenylbutazone. In 1970, Diane Crump became the first female jockey to ride in the Derby, finishing 15th aboard Fathom.[10]

Winners of the Kentucky Derby can be connected to each other due to the practice of arranging horse breeding based on their previous success. All of the horses can be traced back to the three foundational sires, with Godolphin Arabian the ancestor of 7 winners, Byerley Turk the ancestor of 11 winners, and Darley Arabian is the ancestor of 130 winners, including all winners since 1938.

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Watch the horses workout railside, then travel via golf cart through the Infield Tunnel to the backside and enjoy an up close view of horses, jockeys and trainers, then wrap up the tour with unparalleled views of the Twin Spires.

"As a native Louisvillian, I get the passion people here and across the country feel about this iconic race," Grove said in a statement. "But the care of the horses must be our first priority, and this cluster of horse deaths is startling. Lamentations are not enough."

Two horses, Parents Pride and Chasing Artie, also died this past week under mysterious circumstances, Churchill Downs said. Their trainer, Saffie Joseph Jr., has been suspended indefinitely for the "unexplained sudden deaths."

The University of Kentucky will be conducting post-mortem examinations on the racehorses, said Kristin Voskuhl, a spokesperson for the Public Protection Cabinet which includes the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission.

The race length is just 1 and mile, and is open to any 3-year-old horse, although, due to the need for speed and power, the race is largely dominated by male horses. Since 1875, only three fillies (female horses) have won the derby.

Col. Clark envisioned the Kentucky Derby to be an event attended by members of high society, much as was the case in England when he first envisioned the race for the U.S. For the first running of the Kentucky Derby, Clark employed women from wealthy families to promote and invite his ideal clientele to the race. The derby quickly became as much of a spring fashion exposition as a horse race! While decorative hats have been part of the tradition from the beginning, real competition for having one of the best hats at the Kentucky Derby emerged in the 1960s, when television crews began to broadcast the Kentucky Derby and the audience for the event grew to the millions.

Hats at the derby are designed to be show-stopping works of art. Traditionally, the base would be a wide-brimmed Southern hat, adorned with flowers, ribbons, feathers, or netting. More recently other styles have begun to appear, such as the fascinator (a smaller head piece secured to the head with a comb or headband) or the fedora. Celebrities and the very rich will likely have a custom-made hat from a Milliner, although the famous derby milliners have waiting lists several years long! In recent decades, the hat competition has become a competition for all, regardless of gender expression!

The official drink of the Kentucky Derby is the Mint Julep, made with Kentucky bourbon, simple syrup, and crushed mint. Ideally, you are drinking it from your commemorative derby glass, which lists all past derby winners.

While thousands of horses have died in the last decade from racing-related injuries, four deaths during a single Kentucky Derby Week, which takes place every May in Louisville, Kentucky, have owners, trainers, and animal welfare activists asking questions.

Two horses died from unknown causes when they both suddenly collapsed after completing races. Two more horses were euthanized this week due to irreparable injuries, according to a statement from Churchill Downs Racetrack. A horse must win all three races to win the Derby's coveted Triple Crown prize, which comes with a multi-million dollar prize.

Parents Pride died on Saturday, which was Opening Night, and Chasing Artie died on Tuesday. Both were owned by Ken Ramsey and trained by Saffie Joseph Jr., Churchill Downs Racetrack confirmed in the statement. Trainer Joseph Jr. told a local newspaper that the two horses seemed to collapse out of nowhere.

Two other horses sustained musculoskeletal injuries, which are bone and joint disorders that can cause debilitating pain and impair a horse's ability to see, breathe, and even chew and swallow, according to Stephen B. Adams, a professor of surgery at Purdue University, College of Veterinary Medicine.

One horse, Wild Ice, was injured during training on April 27, while the second horse, Take Charge Briana, was injured during a turf race on May 2. Wild on Ice was taken to Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital for care, but both horses "were ultimately euthanized for humane reasons," Churchill Downs said.

The suspension prohibits Joseph, or any trainer directly or indirectly employed by Joseph, from entering horses in races or applying for stall occupancy at all Churchill Downs Incorporated racetracks.

Investigators have yet to find any cause in the deaths of Joseph's two horses in a 72-hour span, along with two others over the past week, which has cast a pall over Churchill Downs in the final preparations for the Kentucky Derby on Saturday.

Joseph received permission from the KHRC to scratch five horses from races on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, according to the Daily Racing Form. He already had scratched one on Wednesday. He told reporters earlier in the day that he scratched any horse that had been in contact with the two that died out of an abundance of caution.

Joseph, a 36-year-old third-generation trainer, said earlier Thursday that investigators examined his barn, checked the horses' veterinary records and took blood samples from each of his horses, which showed nothing abnormal. The feed, hay, straw and supplements used by the horses were checked, too.

Besides Joseph's horses, Derby long shot Wild On Ice and 3-year-old filly Take Charge Briana broke down with musculoskeletal injuries during training or racing at Churchill Downs. Both were euthanized.

Trainer Bob Baffert moved the remainder of his top Kentucky Derby horses to former assistant Tim Yakteen on Sunday including Arabian Knight, winner of the Southwest Stakes at Oaklawn and the horse given the best chance of winning the Derby, according to future odds. e24fc04721