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1977 Kentucky Derby

Index 1977 Kentucky Derby

The 1977 Kentucky Derby was the 103rd running of the Kentucky Derby. [1]

26 relations: Angel Cordero Jr., Bill Shoemaker, Churchill Downs, Darby Dan Farm, Darrel McHargue, Del W. Carroll, George Steinbrenner, Graded stakes race, Jean Cruguet, Jean-Louis Lévesque, Jeffrey Fell, Jorge Velásquez, Kentucky Derby, Laffit Pincay Jr., Larry Snyder (jockey), Laz Barrera, LeRoy Jolley, Louis Wolfson, Ron Turcotte, Seattle Slew, William H. Turner Jr., William Stamps Farish III, 1976 Kentucky Derby, 1977 Belmont Stakes, 1977 Preakness Stakes, 1978 Kentucky Derby.

Angel Cordero Jr.

Angel Tomas Cordero Jr. (born: November 8, 1942) is one of the leading thoroughbred horse racing jockeys of all time and the first Puerto Rican to be inducted into the United States' Racing Hall of Fame.

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Bill Shoemaker

William Lee "Bill" Shoemaker (August 19, 1931 – October 12, 2003) was an American jockey.

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Churchill Downs

Churchill Downs, located on Central Avenue in south Louisville, Kentucky, United States, is a Thoroughbred racetrack most famous for annually hosting the Kentucky Derby.

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Darby Dan Farm

Darby Dan Farm is a produce, livestock, and thoroughbred horse breeding and training farm founded in 1935 near the Darby Creek in Galloway, Ohio by businessman John W. Galbreath.

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Darrel McHargue

Darrel G. McHargue (born September 26, 1954 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) is a retired American Champion jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing.

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Del W. Carroll

Delmer W. "Del" Carroll (October 30, 1919 - May 9, 1982) was an American champion polo player, Thoroughbred racehorse owner/trainer, and soldier during World War II.

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George Steinbrenner

George Michael Steinbrenner III (July 4, 1930July 13, 2010) was an American businessman who was the principal owner and managing partner of Major League Baseball's New York Yankees.

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Graded stakes race

A graded stakes race is a thoroughbred horse race in the United States or Canada that meets the criteria of the American Graded Stakes Committee of the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association (TOBA).

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Jean Cruguet

Jean Cruguet (born March 8, 1939 in Agen, Lot-et-Garonne, France) is a French-American thoroughbred horse racing jockey who won the United States Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing.

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Jean-Louis Lévesque

Jean-Louis Lévesque, (April 13, 1911 – December 28, 1994) was a Canadian entrepreneur, thoroughbred racehorse owner, and philanthropist.

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Jeffrey Fell

Jeffrey J. Fell (born 1956 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada) is a retired jockey and a Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame inductee who was also a successful rider in the United States.

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Jorge Velásquez

Jorge Velásquez (born December 28, 1946 in Chepo, Panama) is a thoroughbred horse racing Hall of Fame jockey.

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Kentucky Derby

The Kentucky Derby, is a horse race that is held annually in Louisville, Kentucky, United States, on the first Saturday in May, capping the two-week-long Kentucky Derby Festival.

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Laffit Pincay Jr.

Laffit Alejandro Pincay Jr. (born December 29, 1946 in Panama City, Panama) was once flat racing's winningest all-time jockey, still holding second place many years after his retirement.

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Larry Snyder (jockey)

Larry Lloyd Snyder (born June 29, 1942 in Toledo, Ohio) is a retired American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey whose career spanned thirty-five years from 1960 to 1994.

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Laz Barrera

Lazaro Sosa Barrera (May 8, 1924 – April 25, 1991) was a Cuban-born American Hall of Fame thoroughbred racehorse trainer.

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LeRoy Jolley

LeRoy S. Jolley (1937 – December 18, 2017) was an American Hall of Fame Thoroughbred horse trainer.

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Louis Wolfson

Louis Elwood Wolfson (January 28, 1912 – December 30, 2007) was a Wall Street financier and one of the first modern corporate raiders, labeled by Time Magazine as such in a 1956 article.

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Ron Turcotte

Ronald Joseph Morel Turcotte, (born July 22, 1941) is a retired Canadian thoroughbred race horse jockey best known as the rider of Secretariat, winner of the U.S. Triple Crown in 1973.

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Seattle Slew

Seattle Slew (February 15, 1974 – May 7, 2002) was an American Thoroughbred race horse who won the Triple Crown in 1977 — the tenth of thirteen horses to accomplish the feat.

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William H. Turner Jr.

William H. "Billy" Turner Jr. (born February 29, 1940) is an American Thoroughbred flat racing trainer who is best known for winning the United States Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing in 1977 with Seattle Slew, and is the world's oldest living Triple Crown-winning trainer.

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William Stamps Farish III

William Stamps Farish III (born March 17, 1939, in Houston, Texas) is an American businessman and a former U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom from 2001 until 2004.

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1976 Kentucky Derby

The 1976 Kentucky Derby was the 102nd running of the Kentucky Derby.

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1977 Belmont Stakes

The 1977 Belmont Stakes was the 109th running of the Belmont Stakes at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York held on June 11, 1977.

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1977 Preakness Stakes

The 1977 Preakness Stakes was the 102nd running of the $200,000 Grade 1 Preakness Stakes thoroughbred horse race.

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1978 Kentucky Derby

The 1978 Kentucky Derby was the 104th running of the Kentucky Derby.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_Kentucky_Derby

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