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2008 Kentucky Derby

Index 2008 Kentucky Derby

The 2008 Kentucky Derby was the 134th running of the Kentucky Derby. [1]

63 relations: Ahmed Zayat, Barclay Tagg, Big Brown, Big Truck (horse), Bob Black Jack, Calvin Borel, Charles E. Fipke, Churchill Downs, Colonel John, Corey Nakatani, Court Vision, Denis of Cork, Eastern Time Zone, Edgar Prado, Eibar Coa, Eight Belles, Eoin G. Harty, Filly, Gabriel Saez, Garrett K. Gomez, Gayego, H. Graham Motion, IEAH Stables, J. Larry Jones, James Kasparoff, Javier Castellano, John R. Velazquez, Jose Lezcano, Julien Leparoux, Kent Desormeaux, Kentucky Derby, Louie J. Roussel III, Manoel Cruz, Michael R. Matz, Mike E. Smith, NBC, Nick Zito, Parimutuel betting, Pyro (horse), Rafael Bejarano, Ramón A. Domínguez, Recapturetheglory, René R. Douglas, Richard E. Dutrow Jr., Richard Migliore, Robby Albarado, Shaun Bridgmohan, Steve Asmussen, Stonerside Stable, Superfecta, ..., Tale of Ekati, Team Valor International, Television network, Todd Pletcher, Trifecta, United States, United States dollar, William I. Mott, WinStar Farm, 2007 Kentucky Derby, 2008 Belmont Stakes, 2008 Preakness Stakes, 2009 Kentucky Derby. Expand index (13 more) »

Ahmed Zayat

Ahmed Zayat (أحمد الزيات), also known as Ephraim David Zayat (אפרים דוד זיאת), (born August 31, 1962) is an Egyptian American entrepreneur and owner of Thoroughbred race horses.

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Barclay Tagg

Barclay Tagg (born December 30, 1937 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania) is an American thoroughbred horse trainer.

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Big Brown

Big Brown (foaled April 10, 2005 in Kentucky) is a retired American hero Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning the 2008 Kentucky Derby and 2008 Preakness Stakes. He suffered his only defeat in the Belmont Stakes, and was later named the champion three-year-old colt of 2008.

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Big Truck (horse)

Big Truck (February 12, 2005 – March 4, 2010) was an American Thoroughbred Racehorse.

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Bob Black Jack

Bob Black Jack is a California-bred colt by Stormy Jack (a son of Bertrando), out of the mare Molly's Prospector.

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Calvin Borel

Calvin H. Borel (born November 7, 1966) is an American jockey in thoroughbred horse racing and rode the victorious mount in the 2007 Kentucky Derby, the 2009 Kentucky Derby and the 2010 Kentucky Derby.

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Charles E. Fipke

Charles Edgar "Chuck" Fipke (born 1946) is a Canadian geologist and prospector who discovered the existence of diamonds around Lac de Gras in Canada's Northwest Territories.

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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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Colonel John

Colonel John (foaled March 4, 2005 in Kentucky) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse best known as the winner of the 2008 Santa Anita Derby and Travers Stakes.

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Corey Nakatani

Corey S. Nakatani (born October 21, 1970 in Covina, California, United States) is an American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey.

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Court Vision

Court Vision (foaled March 27, 2005 in Kentucky) is a retired racehorse who was a five time Grade I winner including the Breeders' Cup Mile.

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Denis of Cork

Denis of Cork (foaled February 16, 2005 in Florida) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse, graded stakes winner, and stallion.

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Eastern Time Zone

The Eastern Time Zone (ET) is a time zone encompassing 17 U.S. states in the eastern part of the contiguous United States, parts of eastern Canada, the state of Quintana Roo in Mexico, Panama in Central America, and the Caribbean Islands.

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Edgar Prado

Edgar S. Prado (Lima, June 12, 1967) is a Peruvian-born American jockey, a U.S. Racing Hall of Fame jockey in thoroughbred horse racing.

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Eibar Coa

Eibar Coa Monteverde (born February 15, in Venezuela) is a jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing.

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Eight Belles

Eight Belles (February 23, 2005 – May 3, 2008) was a Thoroughbred racehorse owned by Rick Porter's Fox Hill Farms.

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Eoin G. Harty

Eoin G. Harty (born November 23, 1962 in Dublin, Ireland) is a Thoroughbred racehorse trainer in the United States.

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Filly

A filly is a female horse that is too young to be called a mare.

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Gabriel Saez

Gabriel Saez (born February 1, 1988 in Port Darien, Panama) is a Panamanian horse racing jockey.

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Garrett K. Gomez

Garrett Keith Gomez (January 1, 1972 – December 14, 2016) was an American thoroughbred jockey who won two Eclipse Awards and thirteen Breeders' Cup races during his career.

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Gayego

Gayego, (foaled in Kentucky on March 26, 2005), is an American Thoroughbred Racehorse.

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H. Graham Motion

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IEAH Stables

IEAH Stables (International Equine Acquisitions Holding) operated a thoroughbred horse racing stable in the United States that included Big Brown, the winner of the 2008 Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes.

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J. Larry Jones

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James Kasparoff

James Kasparoff is a California horse trainer whose premier horse, Bob Black Jack, raced in the 2008 Kentucky Derby.

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Javier Castellano

Javier Castellano (born October 23, 1977, in Maracaibo, Zulia State, Venezuela) is a jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing.

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John R. Velazquez

John R. Velazquez (born November 24, 1971) is an American jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing.

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Jose Lezcano

Jose Lezcano (born April 20, 1985 in Panama) is a jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing.

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Julien Leparoux

Julien R. Leparoux (born July 15, 1983 in Senlis, Oise, France) is an Eclipse Award winning jockey currently racing in the United States.

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Kent Desormeaux

Kent Jason Desormeaux (born February 27, 1970) is an American thoroughbred horse racing Hall of Fame jockey who holds the U.S. record for most races won in a single year with 598 wins in 1989.

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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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Louie J. Roussel III

Louis J. Roussel III, known as Louie Roussel (born January 13, 1946 in New Orleans, Louisiana), is an American businessman and a Thoroughbred racehorse owner and trainer who owned Fair Grounds Race Course and who won the final two legs of the 1988 U.S. Triple Crown series with Risen Star, a colt later voted the Eclipse Award as the American Champion Three-Year-Old Male Horse.

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Manoel Cruz

Manoel Cruz (born May 20, 1970 in Minas Gerais, Brazil) is a jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing.

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Michael R. Matz

Michael R. Matz (born January 23, 1951 in Collegeville, Pennsylvania) is an American race horse trainer and former Olympic equestrian team member who was inducted into the show jumping Hall of Fame.

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Mike E. Smith

Michael Earl Smith (born August 10, 1965) is an American jockey who has been one of the leading riders in U.S. Thoroughbred racing since the early 1990s, was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 2003, and has won the most Breeders' Cup races of any jockey with 26 Breeders' Cup wins.

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NBC

The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American English language commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.

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Nick Zito

Nicholas Philip Zito (born February 6, 1948 in New York City, New York) is an American Thoroughbred horse trainer.

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Parimutuel betting

Parimutuel betting (from the Pari Mutuel or mutual betting) is a betting system in which all bets of a particular type are placed together in a pool; taxes and the "house-take" or "vigorish" are removed, and payoff odds are calculated by sharing the pool among all winning bets.

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Pyro (horse)

Pyro (foaled on February 19, 2005 in Kentucky) is an American Thoroughbred Racehorse and sire.

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Rafael Bejarano

Rafael Bejarano (born June 23, 1982 in Arequipa, Peru) is a champion jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing.

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Ramón A. Domínguez

Ramón A. Domínguez (born November 24, 1976 in Caracas, Venezuela) is a retired Eclipse Award-winning champion jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing.

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Recapturetheglory

Recapturetheglory (foaled February 11, 2005) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse.

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René R. Douglas

René R. Douglas (born March 3, 1967 in Panama City, Panama) is a jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing.

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Richard E. Dutrow Jr.

Richard E. "Rick" Dutrow Jr. (born August 5, 1959 in Hagerstown, Maryland) is an American thoroughbred racehorse trainer.

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Richard Migliore

Richard Migliore (born March 14, 1964 in Babylon, New York) is a retired American jockey.

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Robby Albarado

Robby J. Albarado (born September 11, 1973, in Lafayette, Louisiana) is an American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey.

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Shaun Bridgmohan

Shaun Xavier Bridgmohan (born June 24, 1979 in Spanish Town, Jamaica) is a jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing.

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Steve Asmussen

Steven Mark Asmussen (born November 18, 1965) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer.

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Stonerside Stable

Stonerside Stable is an American Thoroughbred horse breeding farm and horse racing operation in Paris, Kentucky.

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Superfecta

The superfecta is a type of wager in USA and Canada parimutuel betting in which the bettor, in order to win, must pick the first four finishers of a race in the correct sequence.

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Tale of Ekati

Tale of Ekati (foaled March 31, 2005 in Ontario) is a retired Canadian Thoroughbred racehorse.

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Team Valor International

Team Valor Stable LLC is an American Thoroughbred horse racing stable based in Versailles, Kentucky.

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Television network

A television network is a telecommunications network for distribution of television program content, whereby a central operation provides programming to many television stations or pay television providers.

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Todd Pletcher

Todd Pletcher (born June 26, 1967 in Dallas, Texas) is an American thoroughbred horse trainer.

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Trifecta

A trifecta is a parimutuel bet placed on a horse race in which the bettor must predict which horses will finish first, second, and third, in the exact order.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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United States dollar

The United States dollar (sign: $; code: USD; also abbreviated US$ and referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, or American dollar) is the official currency of the United States and its insular territories per the United States Constitution since 1792.

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William I. Mott

William I. "Bill" Mott (born July 29, 1953, in Mobridge, South Dakota) is an American horse trainer, most notable for his work with Cigar.

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WinStar Farm

WinStar Farm is an American Thoroughbred horse breeding and racing farm near Versailles, Kentucky, owned by Kenny Troutt.

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2007 Kentucky Derby

The 2007 Kentucky Derby was the 133rd running of the Kentucky Derby.

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2008 Belmont Stakes

The 2008 Belmont Stakes was the 140th running of the Belmont Stakes.

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2008 Preakness Stakes

The 2008 Preakness Stakes was the 133rd running of the Preakness Stakes thoroughbred horse race.

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2009 Kentucky Derby

The 2009 Kentucky Derby was the 135th running of the Kentucky Derby.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Kentucky_Derby

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