First Kentucky Derby
The Kentucky Derby was started by Meriwether Lewis Clark, a noticeable Louisville resident who fostered the Louisville Rider Club. Clark started development on the race course in 1874 ashore rented from two family members, John and Henry Churchill. He designed the Kentucky Derby after the English Work of art, the Epsom Derby. The Derby, presently run yearly the principal Saturday in May at Churchill Downs, is the most seasoned successively held pure blood horse race in the US. The Kentucky Derby
Well known rider Oliver Lewis rode H. P. McGrath's pure blood Aristides to triumph in the principal Kentucky Derby on 17/05/1875 at the Louisville Rider Club. Fourteen of the fifteen racers in the derby, including Lewis, were African Americans
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