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Today¿s Kentucky Derby is a multi-million-dollar spectacle incorporating corporate sponsorship, worldwide media coverage, and an annual citywide festival in Louisville, Kentucky. Over its nearly century-and-a-half, the Kentucky Derby has grown to be one of the biggest sporting events of the year, attracting 150, 000 spectators at the track and nearly 15 million television viewers on the first Saturday each May.But 1875, the year of the first D...

In 1877 the members of the United States Senate postponed all business for the day so that they might attend a horse race¿the iconic, polarizing post-Civil War event at the center of this story. The nation, still recovering from the depredations of the Civil War and the Reconstruction that followed, recognized it as a North vs. South encounter, pitting New York¿s powerful thoroughbred Tom Ochiltree and New Jersey¿s Parole¿owned by the ostentat...

In 1968, women mockingly labeled jockettes by a skeptical press, had begun demanding the right to apply for jockey licenses. On May 2, 1970, holding a permit to ride, Diane Crump, shattered tradition by becoming the first woman to ride in the Kentucky Derby.

In 1877 the members of the US Senate postponed all business for the day so that they might attend a horse race. This iconic, polarizing post-Civil War event is at the center of this book." --