150 Years of Kentucky Derby History in 10 Objects

Thoroughbred Racing Commentary – Steve Dennis – The Fighting Finish: ‘If he’d just ridden his horse, he’d have won by two or three lengths’ – reliving a notorious Kentucky Derby episode

Thoroughbred Racing Commentary – Steve Dennis – ‘If you’re going to make a mistake, they say, make a big one’ – when the Shoe misjudged the winning post at Churchill Downs

Thoroughbred Racing Commentary – Steve Dennis – Citation: ‘He can catch and beat any horse he can see and there is nothing wrong with his eyesight’ – when Calumet conquered all

Thoroughbred Racing Commentary – Steve Dennis – Ladies first – or how Regret galloped gloriously through the glass ceiling in the 1915 Kentucky Derby

Thoroughbred Racing Commentary – Steve Dennis – ‘He had materialised as if from nowhere, which summed up his entire Derby adventure’ – reliving the unlikely tale of Canonero II

Thoroughbred Racing Commentary – Steve Dennis – ‘The 2008 Kentucky Derby would shake racing’s complacency about its bad old habits until it cracked’

Phil has it a question:

Was it the Winstrol or a mediocre crop of 3 year olds.

Thoroughbred Racing Commentary – Steve Dennis – Go, go, go! Remembering Jet Pilot, the Kentucky Derby hero given the full beauty treatment by a cosmetics queen

Thoroughbred Racing Commentary – Steve Dennis – ‘Mine That Bird has won the Kentucky Derby … an impossible result here!’ Reliving the tale of one man and his stetson

Thoroughbred Racing Commentary – Steve Dennis – ‘A little white-faced Canadian-bred used America’s greatest race as springboard to becoming the world’s greatest stallion’

Thoroughbred Racing Commentary – Steve Dennis – Kentucky Derby anniversary: ‘Uncle Sam’s most famous race began life as British as warm beer and indifferent dental hygiene’

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Phil M Stockmen