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1 1/4 -- Miles from start to finish. |
The recent history on favorites doesn't bode well for Point Given.
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1:59 2-5 -- Fastest time in Derby history, set by Secretariat in 1973. Northern Dancer ran the second-fastest winning time at the Derby in 1964 at 2:00. The slowest 1 1/4-mile Derby winner was Stone Street, who won the race in 1908 in a time of 2:15 1-5. |
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2 -- Times the odds-on favorite has won in the past 22 runnings of the Derby -- Fusaichi Pegasus (2.30-1) in 2000 and Spectacular Bid (0.60-1) in '79. The favorite has won a total of 48 times. The Derby favorite has finished last five times. |
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4 -- Jockeys who have won back-to-back Derbies -- Isaac Murphy (1890-91), Jimmy Winkfield (1901-02), Ron Turcotte (1972-73) and Eddie Delahoussaye (1982-83). |
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5 -- Most Derby wins by a jockey, held by Eddie Arcaro and Bill Hartack. Arcaro won in 1938 (Lawrin), '41 (Whirlaway), '45 (Hoop Jr.), '48 (Citation) and '52 (Hill Gail). Hartack set the pace in 1957 (Iron Liege), '60 (Venetian Way), '62 (Decidedly), '64 (Northern Dancer) and '69 (Majestic Prince).
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7 -- Presidents who have attended the Derby, including Harry Truman, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter and George H. Bush. Nixon was the only sitting president to attend. |
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11 -- Best finish by a female jockey in the Derby, accomplished by Julie Krone (1995) and Patricia Cooksey (1984). Four women have ridden in the Derby a total of five times. |
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13 -- Of the 15 jockeys in the first Derby who were black. Black jockeys won 15 of the first 28 runnings of the Derby. Last year, Marlon St. Julien became the first black jockey to ride in the Derby in 79 years, when he guided Curule to a seventh-place finish. |
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15 -- Age of the youngest jockeys to win the Derby -- Alonzo Clayton (1892) and James "Soup" Perkins (1895). |
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$40 -- Price of a general admission ticket for the Kentucky Derby, compared to $2 on regular days. |
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54 -- Age of jockey Bill Shoemaker when he rode Ferdinand to victory in 1986, becoming the oldest jockey to win. |
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91-1 -- Odds against 1913 winner Donerail, the biggest longshot to win the race. Donerail returned $184.90 on a $ 2 bet. Gallahadion was the second-biggest longshot to win at 35-1 in 1940. |
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92 -- Age of Frances Genter in 1990, when Unbridled made her the oldest owner of a Derby winner. |
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1,320 -- Length, in feet, of Churchill Downs from start to finish. |
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1,561 -- Starters in the first 126 Kentucky Derbies. |
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163,628 -- Largest crowd at a Derby, set in 1974. Last year's crowd of 153,204 was the second largest. |
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$1,038,400 -- Net payout to last year's winner, Fusaichi Pegasus. The first Derby winner, Aristides in 1875, won $2,850. |
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$65,333,000 -- Dollars waged on the 2000 Derby, eclipsing the record set in 1999 ($57,280,277). |
