Sturgis KY Derby Days

05/03/2025

05/03/2025

Remembering that magical Derby Day that we celebrated Sturgis and hopeful that we can bring this back one day! Happy Derby Day, Sturgis!! 🫶🌹🐴

05/03/2025

Happy Derby Day! Check out this inside look of the backside of Churchill Downs! 🐎🐎🐎🌹🌹🌹

05/04/2024

Happy Derby Day, Y’all!
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10 Kentucky Derby facts

1. Meriwether Lewis Clark Jr. started the Kentucky Derby in 1875. His grandfather was William Clark of the famed exploring duo Lewis and Clark.

2. Black jockeys won 15 of the first 28 Kentucky Derbies. In the first Kentucky Derby, 13 of the 15 jockeys were Black.

3. Horses with a name starting with the letter S have won the Kentucky Derby 19 times, more than any other letter. The only first letters that haven't won the Derby, you ask? Q and X.

4. The Kentucky Derby was nationally televised for the first time in 1952, with an estimated 10 to 15 million viewers.

5. The drink of choice at the Kentucky Derby is the Mint Juleps and an estimated 120,000 are served at Churchill Downs on a traditional Derby weekend.

6. The blanket of roses placed up on the Kentucky Derby winner weighs roughly 40 pounds.

7. The Kentucky Derby was permanently scheduled for the first Saturday in May beginning in 1931. The Derby has since run on a day other than the first Saturday in May only twice: when it was postponed in 1945 during a wartime horse racing suspension, and in 2020 when it was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Bonus fact: The Kentucky Derby began in 1875 and has never been canceled.

8. Three fillies (female horses) have won the Derby: Regret (1915), Genuine Risk (1980), and Winning Colors (1988).

9. Sir Barton never won a race before winning the 1919 Kentucky Derby. That year, he won the first Triple Crown (before it was actually called the Triple Crown).

10. Since the Kentucky Derby began using a starting gate in 1930, no winner has emerged from post 17.

05/07/2023

We would love to see your Derby day pictures!!! Please share below 👇 📸😎

05/07/2023

WOW!!!!!
A sincere thank you to all who came out and supported this event! It was truly heartwarming to see so many having so much fun in our community! We can’t wait until next year! 🫶🐎❤️🌹🐎🌹😎

05/06/2023

Don’t miss it!

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05/06/2023

Come watch the derby on the BIG screen!!!! 5:30 PM in the amphitheater! 🐎🌹🐎🌹
However, be sure to come earlier for all the festivities!

05/05/2023

04/11/2023

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03/31/2023

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