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Your Price: $ 8.00
Item Number: derby3197
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Circa: 1990
Manufacturer: Harry M. Stevens Inc.
This frosted and clear souvenir glass from the 116th. Kentucky Derby race at Churchill Downs, Louisville, Kentucky held on May 5, 1990 is marked: 1990 / Churchill Downs Inc. / Official Harry M. Stevens Inc.
The first Kentucky Derby was held on May 17, 1875, at the Louisville Jockey Club track (later renamed Churchill Downs). The Derby was originally shepherded by Meriwether Lewis Clark, Jr.. He was the grandson of William Clark of the Lewis and Clark Expedition and grandnephew of the city's founder George Rogers Clark. Horse racing had a strong tradition in Kentucky, whose Inner Bluegrass Region had been a center of breeding high quality livestock throughout the 19th century. Ten thousand spectators watched the first Derby, where Aristides won.
By the early 1900s, owners of winning Kentucky Derby horses started sending their winners to run in the Preakness Stakes in Maryland and the Belmont Stakes in New York. In 1930, sportswriter Charles Hatton coined the term Triple Crown in reference to the same horses running the three races consecutively.
In very good + condition without chips, cracks or fleabites it measures 5 1/4 inches tall, 2 3/4 inches across the rim and 2 1/4 inches across the base.
An addition to any Horse Racing Souvenir Collection.
SH & Ins. will be quoted after orders placed. If you have questions feel free to contact me and thank you for looking.
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