bumblebee
05-17-2005, 08:10 AM
Popular rider Oliver Lewis rode H.P. McGrath's thoroughbred Aristides to victory in the first Kentucky Derby on May 17, 1875 at the Louisville Jockey Club. Fourteen of the fifteen jockeys in the Derby, including Lewis, were African Americans.
The Kentucky Derby, now run annually the first Saturday in May, is the oldest consecutively held thoroughbred horse race in America. It was begun by Meriwether Lewis Clark, a prominent Louisville citizen who developed the Louisville Jockey Club. Clark began construction on the race course in 1874 on land leased from two relatives, John and Henry Churchill. He patterned the Kentucky Derby after the English Classic, the Epsom Derby.1 The Kentucky Derby, the Preakness, and the Belmont Stakes comprise the coveted Triple Crown of U.S. horse racing.
Gas Man
05-17-2005, 10:43 AM
Nah...that's not why today is important!!
bumblebee
05-17-2005, 11:43 AM
Nah...that's not why today is important!!
Yeah and happy birthday to your sorry A$$ too... :cheers:
Grafixx01
05-17-2005, 12:10 PM
Popular rider Oliver Lewis rode H.P. McGrath's thoroughbred Aristides to victory in the first Kentucky Derby on May 17, 1875 at the Louisville Jockey Club. Fourteen of the fifteen jockeys in the Derby, including Lewis, were African Americans.
The Kentucky Derby, now run annually the first Saturday in May, is the oldest consecutively held thoroughbred horse race in America. It was begun by Meriwether Lewis Clark, a prominent Louisville citizen who developed the Louisville Jockey Club. Clark began construction on the race course in 1874 on land leased from two relatives, John and Henry Churchill. He patterned the Kentucky Derby after the English Classic, the Epsom Derby.1 The Kentucky Derby, the Preakness, and the Belmont Stakes comprise the coveted Triple Crown of U.S. horse racing.
HEY, that's the exact day of MY BIRTHDAY! (well, just not the year though). Happy Birthday to ME! :hug: Happy Birthday to ME! :h13: (that's me unwrapping the MV Agusta Tamborini that Gas Man bought me) Thanks Gas Man.
JK_DILLA
05-17-2005, 07:24 PM
Im so horse racing ignorant i dont know where to start :nonod:
Nobody wished ME a happy b-day. poo on yalls!
Gas Man
05-18-2005, 11:09 AM
Happy B-day JK!! I seriously think I did!