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And they’re off! Every year, the first Saturday in May marks “The Most Exciting Two Minutes in Sports,” the annual Kentucky Derby. Tidbits offers some fascinating facts about the “Run for the Roses,” a contest for three-year-old thor-oughbred horses held every year since 1875. • Construction on the racetrack now known as

Churchill Downs was begun in Louisville, Kentucky in 1874. It was the brainstorm of Meriwether Lewis Clark Jr., the grandson of William Clark of the Lewis and Clark expe-dition. Clark leased 80 acres of land from his uncles John and Henry Churchill, and raised $32,000 for constructions costs by selling membership subscriptions to the track for $100 each.

• The first Kentucky Derby was held in May of 1875 before a crowd of 10,000 spectators. Fifteen three-year-old thoroughbreds pound-ed around the track and the contest was won by a chestnut named Aristides. The original race was 1.5 miles (2.41 km), compared to today’s 1.25 miles (2.01 km). Aristides ac-complished the distance in just under 2:38. In 1896 it was determined that 1.5 miles was too long a distance for three-year-old horses so early in the spring, and the race length was shortened.

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• When race fans showed up for the 1895 event, they were met by a brand-new grandstand fea-turing the Twin Spires. A 24-year-old drafts-man designed the Spires, which have become a familiar landmark to the Derby crowd.

• At a party hosted by a socialite following the 1883 Derby, all the ladies were presented with roses. Track founder Meriwether Lewis Clark was in attendance and it’s believed he con-ceived the idea of declaring the rose the race’s official flower from that experience. But it wasn’t until 1896 that a bouquet of pink and white roses was first presented to the winner, and it was 1932 before the garland of roses we see today was introduced. The term “Run for the Roses” was coined by a sports columnist in 1925. The blanket of roses bestowed upon the owner of the winning horse is composed of more than 500 red roses sewn onto a green satin backing. In addition, the jockey receives 60 long-stemmed roses wrapped in 10 yards of ribbon. Owners frequently have the garland of roses freeze-dried to preserve it, and some even have a flower dipped in silver in com-memoration of the win.

• The two-minute mark has only been broken three times in Derby history, the first time in 1973 by the famed Secretariat. Nicknamed “Big Red,” the chestnut finished the course in 1:59.40, a record that still holds today as the fastest time ever. The second horse to finish in under two minutes was just a length and a half behind Secretariat. Sham, who was Secre-tariat’s dark brown half-cousin, had hit his face on the starting gate and knocked out a tooth. Although he bled severely throughout the race, Sham came in about one-fifth of a sec-ond behind the winner. The Derby was without an under-two-minute winner until 2001 when Monarchos finished in 1:59.97.

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• During the early 1900’s, owners of Derby-winning horses began sending their thoroughbreds to Mary-land’s Preakness Stakes and the Belmont Stakes in New York. Although it wasn’t officially called the “Triple Crown” until 1930, the first winner of all three races was in 1919, a chestnut named Sir Bar-ton. There have only been 11 Triple Crown winners, including Secretariat, who took the prize after a 25-year drought, setting records in all three races. There were back-to-back Triple Crown winners in 1977 (Seattle Slew) and Affirmed in 1978. There hasn’t been one since.

• On those occasions when two or more horses are in a dead heat and it’s impossible to see which crossed the line first, a “photo finish” is needed to determine the winner. The first time this was used at the Kentucky Derby was in 1947, when a photo at the finish line concluded that Jet Pilot was the winning horse.

• For almost 100 years, the mint julep has been the traditional beverage of the Derby. Each year, 120,000 juleps are served on Derby Weekend at Churchill Downs, requiring more than 10,000 bottles of Early Times Kentucky Whiskey, 1,000 lbs. (454 kg) of fresh mint, and 60,000 lbs. (27,215 kg) of ice. Spectators can expect a price of $11 per glass. Along with the juleps, a thick stew called Burgoo is traditionally served, a concoction of a mixture of meats, including pork, beef, chicken, and mutton, along with vegetables and barbecue sauce.

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• The 1944 Derby winner was named Pensive and the victor in 1949 was Ponder. What was unusual about these two steeds? Pensive was the sire of Ponder and both horses won the Derby with the exact same time, 2:04.20. Ponder went on to sire the 1956 Derby win-ner, Needles.

• Until 2005, only the first four finishers re-ceived a share of the Derby’s purse money. The rules were then changed to award a po-tion to the fifth-place winner as well.

• The Derby has had a number of notable firsts. It was broadcast live on the radio for the first time in 1925, with the first national television coverage occurring in 1952. The size of the purse topped the $100,000 mark for the first time in 1954. (This year, the purse will be $2,180,000, with $1,240,000 of that amount awarded to the winner.) In 1968, Dancer’s Image became the first winner to be disquali-fied after traces of drugs were found in its system. The Derby’s first woman jockey was Diane Crump who rode Phantom in 1970. Di-ane came in 15th out of 17. Jockeys were al-lowed to wear advertising logos on their silks for the first time in 2004.

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UPDATeD DATeS: May 13th - 17thOften referred to as “The Mother of the Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement,” Rosa Parks was one of the most influential leaders in African-American history. Let’s learn more about this courageous woman who championed the cause for desegregation. • Born in Alabama to a carpenter father and a

teacher mother, Rosa was a sickly child who was raised on her grandparents’ farm following the separation of her parents. Home-schooled until the age of 11, Rosa then attended the Industrial School for Girls in Montgomery. At age 21, she married a barber named Raymond Parks, and finished her uncompleted high school diploma.

• Segregation in the South called for separate re-strooms, drinking fountains, and seating areas on public transportation. The first four rows of city buses were “Whites Only,” with blacks forced to sit at the very back. If the bus was full when a white person boarded the bus, blacks were made to move, stand, or get off the bus. Blacks were also not allowed to sit across the aisle from a white person, and had to enter the bus from the back so as not to walk past a white at the front.

• When Rosa landed a job at a local department store, she rode the city bus to and from work each day. On a December day in 1955, as she was headed for home, she boarded the bus and took a seat in the 11th row, the first row of the section reserved for blacks. The bus filled up and three whites were standing. The driver de-manded that four black people give up their seats. Three black men moved, but Rosa slid over to the window seat, refusing to surrender her place.

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• Within four days, a boycott of Montgomery’s city buses was in place, organized in part by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who declared, “…it is more honorable to walk in dignity than ride in humiliation.” More than 90% of the city’s black residents refused to ride the buses. Carpools were set up, with those who owned vehicles volunteering their services. Because 75% of bus customers were black, the finances of the public bus companies plunged. Yet it still took 381 days for agree-ment to be reached on the end of segregation.

• Rosa later moved to Detroit, where she worked for a U.S. Congressman until age 75. In 1992, she published her autobiogra-phy. Rosa was the recipient of 20+ honor-ary doctorates from universities around the world. She was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which is the highest honor that can be bestowed upon a civilian. Time magazine designated her as one of the 20 most influen-tial figures of the 20th century.

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• In some parts of Asia, it is the custom to put salt in one’s tea.• If you’re of a certain age, you might remember that in 1968, Tommy James and the Shondells had a No. 3 hit with the song “Mony, Mony.” You might be sur-prised to learn, though, that the inspiration for the song came from the busi-ness world. On Broadway in New York City, atop the 40-story building that housed the Mutual of New York Insurance Company, also known as M.O.N.Y., Tommy James often saw a huge neon sign flashing the short form of the com-pany’s name. He evidently liked the way it sounded. • Those who study such things say that explorer Christopher Columbus had blond hair. * * *Thought for the Day: “No sacrifice is worth the name unless it is a joy. Sacrifice and a long face go ill to-gether.” -- Mahatma Gandhi

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Derby wins, Eddie Arcaro and Bill Hartack, each with five. Arcaro was the first to accom-plish this feat, with his first win in 1938 at age 22, followed by victories in 1941, 1945, 1948, and 1952. Arcaro is also the record-holder for the most American classic race wins, and the only rider to win the Triple Crown twice. He triumphed in 17 Triple Crown races, including the five Derbys, and six each in the Preakness and Belmont Stakes. As a small youth, rejec-tion for a spot on the baseball team pushed him to excel in a different area. He stood just 5’2” (1.6 m) when fully grown. At the 1959 Belmont Stakes, Eddie seemed destined for his 7th win, but his horse fell and Eddie was thrown into a large puddle of water and was narrowly saved from drowning. Riding helmets had very re-cently been introduced to the sport and Arcaro claimed his had saved his life. His lifetime re-cord was 4,779 wins.

• Bill Hartack won his first Kentucky Derby in 1957 at age 24. He was favored to win the next year, but just two weeks before the Derby, he broke his leg and another jockey rode the horse Tim Tam, who won the race. Hartack was the nation’s leading jockey four different times, and was the first to at-tain $3 million purse winnings in a year.

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• On May 17, 1954, the U.S. Su-preme Court hands down a unani-mous decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, ruling that ra-cial segregation in public education is unconstitutional. The decision dealt with Linda Brown, a young black girl who had been denied admis-sion to her local elementary school.

• On May 19, 1967, one of the first major treaties designed to limit the spread of nuclear weapons goes into effect as the Soviet Union rati-fies an agreement banning nuclear weapons from outer space. The United States, Great Britain and sev-eral dozen other nations had already signed and/or ratified the treaty.

• On May 13, 1981, Pope John Paul II is shot and wounded at St. Peter’s Square in Rome by Turk-ish terrorist Mehmet Ali Agca. Agca claimed that he had planned to go to England to kill the king, but it turned out there was only a queen and “Turks don’t shoot women.”

• On May 16, 1717, French writer Francois-Marie Arouet, better known as Voltaire, is imprisoned in the Bas-tille. His satirical attack on politics and religion had infuriated the gov-ernment, and Voltaire was arrested. Several times in his life, Voltaire was forced to flee one step ahead of arrest.

• On May 18, 1861, the Humboldt Times newspaper casts first lady Mary Todd Lincoln in an unflatter-ing light when it recounts a tale of how Mrs. Lincoln had usurped her husband’s presidential duty of ap-pointing federal offices. According to the report, Mary Todd Lincoln took it upon herself to appoint a stranger to any office he desired.

• On May 14, 1916, a lead article in the Times of London proclaims that an in-sufficiency of munitions is leading to defeat for Britain on the battlefields of World War I. The article prompted the creation of a Ministry of Munitions.

• On May 15, 1942, gasoline rationing begins in 17 Eastern states as an at-tempt to help the American war effort during World War II. By the end of the year, President Franklin D. Roosevelt

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ticed the problems that farmers faced when attempting to till soil. Because the area had formerly been woodland, the soil was rich with hummus, which clumped and clung to the blades of the plows farmers were accus-tomed to using. While repairing a broken cir-cular saw, Deere stumbled upon an idea. He employed his smith skills to fashion the steel blade into the shape of a plow. He affixed two wooden spokes, then hitched the device to a horse. It plowed the heavy Illinois soil like a charm. In fact, a farmer who happened to be observing the test run immediately put in an order for his own John Deere plow.

• In short order, Deere gave up his blacksmith shop and focused on making plows. The company grew steadily and added many em-ployees. In the late 1840s, John relocated the entire operation to Moline, Illinois. Ashamed of his own lack of education, John sent his children to the state’s finest schools. One of his proudest days occurred when son Charles earned the equivalent of an MBA from Bell’s Commercial College in Chicago.

• With his son Charles managing the company, John found time to pursue philanthropic in-terests. He co-founded both the First Nation-al Bank and the First Congregational Church. He was elected the mayor of Moline in 1873, where one of his first actions – the replace-ment of the city’s open drains with a sewer pipe system – saved countless lives by reduc-ing the spread of disease.

• The original John Deere logo, registered in 1876, depicted a deer that was native to Afri-ca. Thirty-six years later, in 1912, it was re-placed with the image of a North American white-tailed deer. In the decades that fol-lowed, the now-familiar “outline” logo took over as the symbol of the John Deere brand.

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• Standing just 4’11” (1.5m) tall and weight 96 lbs. (43.5 kg), Willie Shoemaker was just 17 when he rode a horse in a race for the first time. Although he finished fifth in that first race, by his third race, he was in the winner’s circle. By week two, he had won seven races. He won his first Kentucky Derby in 1955 at age 23, and his second four years later. It would be six years before his next Churchill Downs vic-tory, but Willie wasn’t finished yet. Twenty-one years later in 1986, Shoemaker won his fourth and final Derby at age 54, making him the oldest Derby winner in history. Although he had won 11 Triple Crown races over the course of four different decades – four Der-bys, five Belmont Stakes, and three Preakness Stakes – he never achieved the Crown itself. He set a world record with 8,833 winning rac-es, and accomplished the amazing feat of win-ning six races in one day, six different times in his career. Shoemaker retired in 1990 and tragedy struck just one year later when his vehicle plunged off a 50-foot embankment, leaving him paralyzed from the neck down. He still managed to succeed as a horse trainer until 1997.

• Steve Cauthen is the last jockey to win the Triple Crown, a feat achieved in 1978 astride the horse Affirmed. He was also the young-est jockey to take the title – Cauthen had been 18 less than a week when he won the Derby. At 19, he became the first jockey to win $6 million in a single season. Yet he rode in the Kentucky Derby only once! Because he had trouble meeting U.S. weight requirements, he moved to England where weight restrictions were higher, and he went on to become the British Champion Jockey three times.

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