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Good Black Information: The Day by day Drop – GBN Day by day Drop for Might 9, 2022: Oliver Lewis, the Inaugural Kentucky Derby Winner


Good Black Information: The Day by day Drop by Lori Lakin Hutcherson

Jockey Oliver Lewis received the inaugural Kentucky Derby atop the colt Aristides on Might 17, 1875. Lewis was one in every of 13 Black jockeys within the fifteen-strong subject. However despite the fact that Blacks dominated horseracing within the late 1800s, by the early 1900s, they’d been pushed out of the game, with James Winkfield being the final to win in 1902. Afte  …  See extra

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