Today in History – May 17
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. Continue reading. The pair won by a reported two lengths, setting a new American record time for a mile-and-a-half race. Fourteen of the fifteen jockeys in the derby, including Lewis,…
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