Kentucky Derby

noun

Trademark.

1. a horse race for three-year-olds, run annually since 1875, on the first Saturday in May, at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky.: the first race in the Triple Crown.

Kentucky Derby

noun

1. a race for three-year-old horses run annually since 1875 at Louisville, Kentucky

Kentucky Derby

1. The most famous American horse race, held each spring at Churchill Downs racetrack in Kentucky.

Example Sentences

Before that, he was third in the Kentucky Derby by a whisker while being on the receiving end of some bumping down the stretch by Sierra Leone.

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Sovereignty, the Kentucky Derby, Belmont and Travers winner, will not run in the $7-million Breeders’ Cup Classic after spiking a fever this week.

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Sovereignty won the Kentucky Derby in May to give Godolphin stables a long-awaited first victory in the first jewel of US flat racing's Triple Crown.

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The winner of the Kentucky Derby, Belmont Stakes and Travers Stakes will recover although it’s unclear if he will ever race again.

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The winner was Fierceness, a multiple stakes winner who was the post-time favorite in last year’s Kentucky Derby and Breeders’ Cup Classic.

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