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Did you know ...

• racehorse Clyde Van Dusen, winner of the 1929 Kentucky Derby, was named after his trainer?
• the American thoroughbred racehorse Meridian won the Kentucky Derby in 1911, establishing a new record time?
• the average speed of the contestants in the Great Steamboat Race, held each year before the Kentucky Derby, is only 7 miles per hour?
• the last African American jockey to win the Kentucky Derby was James Winkfield in 1902?
• Winning Colors is one of only three fillies to have won the Kentucky Derby?
• Michael Matz, who trained the 2006 Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro, saved the lives of four children on the ill-fated United Airlines Flight 232 in 1989, and also carried the U.S. flag at the 1996 Summer Olympics Closing Ceremonies?
• racehorse Lil E. Tee, who was deemed so worthless that even an auction company rejected him as unsaleable, won the 1992 Kentucky Derby?
• Thoroughbred racehorse Gallant Man lost the 1957 Kentucky Derby by a nose after his jockey stood up to celebrate?
• Ed Brown (pictured) was an African-American slave who rose to become a Belmont Stakes-winning jockey and a Kentucky Derby-winning horse trainer?
• Forward Pass, an American Thoroughbred racehorse, was the only horse in the history of the Kentucky Derby to have been declared the winner as the result of a disqualification?
• 1943 Triple Crown winner Count Fleet was both sire of and sired by Kentucky Derby winners?