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Ahead of the 2024 Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs on May 4, we look back at 10 Kentucky Derby winning horses with unique names we'll never forget.
The all-time record, recognized by Guinness World Records, is held by Chorisbar who won 197 times over the course of 324 career starts. [110] Condado, a chestnut horse who raced in Puerto Rico from 1936 to 1943, won a grand total of 152 times [111] Galgo Jr. earned 137 wins in 159 starts from 1930 to 1936. [29]
Citation followed with his final Kentucky Derby prep, a win in the Derby Trial Stakes. In the Kentucky Derby, ridden by Arcaro, Citation won by 3 1 ⁄ 2 lengths over his stablemate, eventual 1949 Horse of the Year Coaltown, and Arcaro gave the widow of former jockey Al Snider a share of his Derby purse money.
Flyingbolt: widely considered as the second best Steeplechaser of all-time; stablemate of Arkle; Timeform rated 210. 2 lb inferior to Arkle; Foolish Pleasure: Winner of the 1975 Kentucky Derby; Frankel: undefeated in 14 career starts; highest rated flat race horse in history: WTR 140; [2] Timeform 147, Racing Post 143
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Owners have to get creative with horse names, since no two horses can share a name, ... There are 14 races in total on Saturday, but the official Kentucky Derby post time is 6:57 p.m. ET.
The track reported a wagering total of $209.2 million from all the sources on all the races on the Kentucky Derby Day program. It was a 9 percent increase compared to the total of $192.6 million in 2016 and an increase of 8 percent over the previous record set in 2015 of $194.3 million. [ 29 ]
Once a horse stops racing for five years, the name is put back into circulation unless it has reached a certain level of success as defined by the Jockey Club (such as horses in racing’s Hall of ...