1913 Kentucky Derby

Horse race 39th Kentucky Derby Grade I stakes race Kentucky Derby Donerail 1913.jpg Donerail after winning the 1913 Kentucky Derby Churchill Downs May 10, 1913 Donerail Roscoe Goose Thomas P. Hayes Thomas P. Hayes Dirt 1912 1914 The 1913 Kentucky Derby was the 39th running of the Kentucky Derby. The race took place on May 10, 1913.http://www.kentuckyderby.com/history/year/1913 Kentucky Derby History, 1913 2010-12-18 2022-02-23 https://web.archive.org/web/20220223083513/https://www.kentuckyderby.com/history/year/1913 dead The winning time of 2.04.80 set a new Derby record.http://d3b4lt1s53xf6k.cloudfront.net/sites/kentuckyderby.com/files/charts/1913.pdf 1913 Kentucky Derby Results Tables 2010-12-18 https://web.archive.org/web/20110814055642/http://d3b4lt1s53xf6k.cloudfront.net/sites/kentuckyderby.com/files/charts/1913.pdf 2011-08-14 dead With odds of 91–1, winning horse Donerail is the longest odds winner in Kentucky Derby history.Long-odds win in Kentucky Derby. BBC Sport. Full results Finished Post Horse Jockey Trainer Owner Time / behind 1st 5 Donerail Roscoe Goose Thomas P. Hayes Thomas P. Hayes 2:04.80 2nd 4 Ten Point Merritt C. Buxton Calvin Banks Anthony L. Aste 1 2 3rd 3 Gowell John McCabe John T. Weaver John T. Weaver1 1 2 4th 8 Foundation Johnny Loftus William L. McDaniel C. W. McKenna Head 5th 6 Yankee Notions Buddy Glass William H. Karrick Harry K. Knapp Neck 6th 1 Lord Marshall T. Steele J. Oliver Keene J. Oliver & G. Hamilton Keene 5 7th 2 Jimmie Gill Charles Borel Shelby West L. P. Doerhoefer & Shelby West 8 8th 7 Leochares Charles Peak John F. Schorr John W. Schorr 15 Winning Breeder: Thomas P. Hayes; (KY) Horses Prince Hermis, Sam Hirsch, Flying Tom, and Floral Park scratched before the race. Payout thumb|Promotional flyer for the Selig Polyscope Company's documentary, The Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs (1913) Post Horse Win Place Show 5 Donerail $ 184.90 41.20 13.20 4 Ten Point 3.50 3.30 3 Gowell 14.10 The winner received a purse of $5,475. Second place received $700. Third place received $300. The 39th "Run for the Roses" still holds the record for the winner having the highest odds. In a small field of only eight horse Donerail entered the race at 91–1. Donerail In 1913, Donerail set a record that still stands today. Owned by Thomas P. Hayes, the thoroughbred entered the Kentucky Derby at 91-1 odds. In fact, Hayes was not convinced that he should enter the horse at all. In a field of only eight horses, the money favorite Ten Point had the best starting position at number four. Donerail started at post five, but passed Ten Point and won by only half a length. Donerail's win was especially remarkable when one considers the economic living standards in 1913. The average household income at the time was about $3,000. The United States was largely made up of farming communities.Digital History https://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=2&psid=3175 2021-12-02 www.digitalhistory.uh.edu In today's economy, a $10 bet on Donerail paid out nearly $26,031. The horse would go on to be on the leaderboard in half of his lifetime races. After his record-making win in the Kentucky Derby, Donerail continued to race until 1916, when he was retired to Glen-Helen Farm.Bartholomew Kaeli 2021-03-09 Donerail: The 91-1 Longshot Kentucky Derby Winner https://www.champsofthetrack.com/post/donerail-91-1-longshot-kentucky-derby-winner 2021-12-02 Champs of the Track en Thomas P. Hayes Donerail was bred by Thomas P. Hayes, who decided to keep the colt. Hayes chose the thoroughbred's name after a small community near Lexington. Trained by his owner, Donerail's first races were less than impressive, and Hayes had no confidence that he was able to perform well in the Kentucky Derby. He told Roscoe Goose, the jockey, to find another mount. Goose continued to beg Hayes to enter Donerail in the Kentucky Derby, and when a friend of Hayes, William J. Treacy paid the entry fee, Donerail was added to the field. The win of Donerail also put Hayes in the history books: it was only the second time in history that the same person bred, trained, and owned the Kentucky Derby winner. Roscoe Goose Donerail's jockey Roscoe Goose was a descendant of one of the pioneer families in the Louisville area. He was confident of the potential of the horse and even told friends that he believed Donerail could win the Kentucky Derby. Roscoe's brother, Carl, was also a jockey and he was killed in a riding accident. Roscoe committed to teach and train young jockeys. He was instrumental in adding the requirement for the jockeys to wear helmets. Roscoe Goose became a trainer, breeder, owner, and elder statesman of horse racing. [2]He would mentor the great jockey Eddie Arcaro. In 1963, Roscoe Goose was one of the first athletes named to the Kentucky Athletic Hall of Fame. He died in 1971 and is buried in Louisville's Cave Hill Cemetery. Derby Day 1913 May 10, 1913, was a beautiful sunny day. The newly renovated Churchill Downs was packed with 30,000 people to watch the race. Twelve horses were expected to compete, but four scratched before the race, leaving a field of only eight. In addition to his record-making odds,O'Connor John Lawrence http://archive.org/details/historyofkentuck01ocon History of the Kentucky Derby, 1875-1921 1921 [New York, Rider Press, co.] The Library of Congress Donerail won the Derby with the fastest time recorded to that point. The favored horses for the race that day were Ten Point (at post four), Foundation (at post eight) and Yankee Notions (at post six). References 1913 Kentucky Derby Derby Category:May 1913 sports events in the United States Kentucky Category:1913 in Louisville, Kentucky