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Tag: Oliver Lewis

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  • May 29, 2020November 5, 2025

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 readin

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