Do You Watch the Kentucky Derby? – Survey of the Day

Every year on the first Saturday in May for the last 138 years folks have raced their three-year-old thoroughbred horses around the dirt track in Louisville, Kentucky known as Churchill Downs. "The Most Exciting Two Minutes in Sports" draws around 155,000 fans just at the track, and another 15 million watching worldwide.  Are you one of them? 

If you do happen to be a fan of the Kentucky Derby, check out the website www.kentuckyderby.info. It offers questions that will test your knowledge, betting, tickets to the race, history, and just about anything you can think of related to the “Run for the Roses.”

Some of the interesting facts I found include;

• The Kentucky Derby is held on which day? (The first Saturday in May)

• The fastest time in the Kentucky Derby was posted by which horse? (Secretariat)

• Which jewel of the Triple Crown is the Derby? (First)

• Who was the first Kentucky Derby winner? (Aristdes)

• How many fillies have won the Kentucky Derby? (3)

• The last gelding to win the Kentucky Derby was named what? (Funny Cide)

• The 2000 Kentucky Derby Winner was which horse? (Fusaichi Pegasus)

• The first Kentucky Derby was run in which year? (1875)

• The largest Kentucky Derby attendance, in 1974, was what? (163,628)

• The last Triple Crown Winner was which horse? (Affirmed)