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The Pennsylvania Derby is a race for thoroughbred horses run at Parx Racing and Casino (formerly known as Keystone Race Track, then from 1986 through 2010 as Philadelphia Park) each year. The track's premiere event is open to horses, age three, and is run at a distance of 1.125 miles (1.811 km) (9 furlongs ) on the dirt and since 2007 normally ...
The Pennsylvania Derby is a 1.125 miles (1.811 km) (nine furlongs) race for three-year-olds that has consistently attracted quality fields and large crowds. Over the past few years, it has evolved into a three-day festival that lasts all of Labor Day weekend at the racetrack, culminating with the running of the Derby.
The race was inaugurated in 2010 [1] with an attractive purse offered of $300,000 [1] as a preparatory race for the Grade I Pennsylvania Derby where the winner was given automatic entry. The event is named in honor of the 2004 Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes winner, and hometown Pennsylvania hero Smarty Jones .
The first “Derby Day” on May 17, 1875, looked nothing like the international spectacle that draws hundreds of thousands of people to a storied racetrack rigged out with bars, clubs and ...
Smarty Jones won the race by 2 + 3 ⁄ 4 lengths, earning $854,800 for the Chapmans along with a bonus of $5 million from Oaklawn Park for sweeping the Rebel Stakes, the Arkansas Derby, and the Kentucky Derby. He also joined Lil E. Tee (1992 Derby winner) as the only Pennsylvania-bred horses to ever win the Kentucky Derby.
August Belmont, Jr. put the Kentucky Derby on the map in 1913 with his mere presence. Two years later, a filly horse would pull a historic win.
With the 149th annual Kentucky Derby right around the bend, we're bringing you a list of things you might not have known about the iconic horse race.
Edwin C. Moon, a former Mercer County, Pennsylvania district attorney who had managed tracks in Missouri and Ohio, was the track's first director of operations and Rosecroft Raceway general manager James M. Lynch became the track's first racing secretary. [4] Liberty Bell Park was constructed over a ten-month period at a cost of $12.5 million.