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The 2022
Kentucky Derby
is the 148th renewal of The Greatest Two Minutes in Sports and will run on May 7th, 2022
Kentucky Derby, the most prestigious American horse race, established in 1875 and run annually on the first Saturday in May at Churchill
The Kentucky Derby is a horse race held annually in Louisville, Kentucky, United States,
almost always on the first Saturday in May, capping the two-week-long Kentucky Derby Festival
The competition is a Grade I stakes race for three-year-old Thoroughbreds at a distance of one and a quarter miles at Churchill Downs
Location:
Churchill Downs; Louisville, Kentucky, U.S
Record:
1:59.40, Secretariat (1973, 1+1⁄4 miles); 2:34.50, Spokane (1889, 1+1⁄2 miles)
Weight:
Colt/Gelding: 126 lbs (57.2 kg); Filly: 121 lb (55 kg)
Purse:
US$3 million; 1st: $1,860,000
Inaugurated:
May 17, 1875 (146 years ago)
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