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The Kentucky Derby was first run at 1.5 miles (2.4 km), the same distance as the Epsom Derby and the Grand Prix de Paris. In 1896, the distance was changed to its current 1.25 miles (2 km). On May 17, 1875, in front of an estimated crowd of 10,000 people, a field of 15 three-year-old horses contested the first Derby. Under African-American jockey Oliver Lewis, a colt named Aristides, who was trained by future Hall of Famer, Ansel Williamson, won the inaugural Derby. Later that year, Lewis rode Aristides to a second-place finish in the Belmont Stakes.
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Ron Peltz’s Equirace.com bought With a City privately for $150,000 in late December with a goal of using the Lane’s End Stakes (G2) to reach the Kentucky Derby (G1). As ambitious as that might have been for a horse who was available for a $40,000 claiming price just a month earlier, With a City punched his ticket just the way Peltz envisioned on Saturday when he scored a stunning win at odds of 48.80-to-1 in the Lane’s End, which was contested over Turfway Park’s Polytrack surface for the first time.
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The Pletcher vs. O’Neill dynamic is nothing new on this year’s Kentucky Derby trail. The two went head to head in the Sham (Grade 3) with Pletcher’s Ravel narrowly getting the best of O’Neill’s Liquidity, run on February 3. A week later on February 10, the two went at it again in the Risen Star (Grade 3) with O’Neill claiming victory with Notional; Read the rest of this article »
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With a City most likely will head straight for the Kentucky Derby. Equirace.com, headed by Peltz and his son Luke, are the same people who sprung a 27-1 upset in the 2004 Hawthorne Gold Cup (gr. II) with Freefourinternet...Read the full article
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Saturday’s Illinois Derby (Grade 2) lured nine contestants seeking important graded earnings in advance of the Kentucky Derby. The salty bunch chasing the $500,000 purse is led by Cobalt Blue from the Doug O’Neill camp and Cowtown Cat from the Todd Pletcher barn.
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