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Southern Kentucky Soapbox Derby holds final rallies for championships
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (WBKO) - This Derby weekend, some speedsters kept it close to home with the Southern Kentucky Soapbox Derby’s spring rally held at Phil Moore Park. 25 racers from Kentucky, Indiana, West Virginia and Missouri secured crucial points towards qualifying for the world championship. The spring rallies were one of the final hurdles after months of hard work, for soapbox racers hoping for a spot.
Dodging a few showers and storms for Derby Day
As expected it turned out to be a rather damp and dreary Oaks Day across Central and Eastern Kentucky, along with at Churchill Downs in Louisville. It was a far cry from the perfect weather of Wednesday and Thursday with clouds, spotty showers and temperatures a little cooler. Fortunately the heaviest rain fell early in the day with more scattered rain through the afternoon as temperatures struggled to get into the low 70s for afternoon highs. The rain gear definitely came in handy Friday and this will be a common theme in the coming days as the unsettled weather pattern sticks around.
The Kentucky Derby is turning 150 years old. It's survived world wars and controversies of all kinds
As a record crowd cheered, American Pharoah rallied from behind and took aim at his remaining two rivals in the stretch. The bay colt and jockey Victor Espinoza surged to the lead with a furlong to go and thundered across the finish line a length ahead in the 2015 Kentucky Derby. “There’s nothing like winning the Kentucky Derby,” recalled Espinoza, a three-time winner. “To me it’s the most important thing in horse racing.”America’s longest continuously held sporting event turns 150 years old this Saturday. By age, it’s got the Westminster dog show beat by two years. The Derby has...
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