The 1933 Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs was won by Brokers Tip and jockey Don Meade. The finish of the 1933 race is known as the"Fighting Finish" because Meade and jockey Herb Fisher, riding rival Head Play, fought one another down the home stretch. Brokers Tip won by a nose.On May 2, 1936, Bold Venture, ridden by Ira"Babe" Hanford, won the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs. Hanford was an 18-year-old apprentice jockey who had never competed in the Kentucky Derby.
That was the first of many history-making moments that have transpired in the past 150 years at this venerated racetrack, home to what is called “the most exciting two minutes in sports.” The Churchill Downs venue, a National Historic Landmark, has many long-standing traditions, but it’s not frozen in time. The biggest change in decades will be unveiled at this year’s Run for the Roses: a $200 million redesign to the saddling paddock, where the feisty 3-year-old thoroughbreds are held before the race, that has been underway for more than a year.
On the second floor of the clubhouse are the eye-catching Peb murals, named for Pierre Peb Bellocq, the cartoonist who created them. The rise of Jim Crow laws that enforced racial segregation in the Post-Reconstruction South forced them off the track, and for decades, their contributions to the sport were forgotten.
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