Seize the Grey denies Derby winner Mystik Dan in Preakness, dashes hopes for Triple Crown
D. Wayne Lukas worked his way to Seize the Grey after his horse won the Preakness Stakes and kept getting interrupted by well-wishers offering congratulations.
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Kentucky Derby at 150: American sports tradition predates the automobile and the airplane, radio and television
The dominant news of the day in Kentucky on May 17, 1875, was the death of John C. Breckinridge, a U.S. Congressman turned Confederate Civil War general. Breckinridge died at the age of 54 at his home in Lexington, Ky., a divisive historical figure. His obituary filled several columns in the next day’s The Courier-Journal newspaper.