Kentucky Derby party to benefit Old Friends at the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame

The National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame will be hosting a Kentucky Derby party to benefit the retired Thoroughbreds at Old Friends at Cabin Creek: The Bobby Frankel Division, on Saturday, May 5 from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Tickets for the event are $65 and can be ordered through Old Friends by contacting JoAnn Pepper at (518) 698-2377. For more information about the event, sponsorship opportunities, or to donate, please visit www.oldfriendscabincreek.com.

The event will be catered by Longfellows and will feature a cash bar. There will also be numerous contests, such as the “Fancy Hat Contest” and “Fancy Tie Contest.” There will be celebrity judges, a 50/50 raffle, auction items, and giveaways.

Coverage of the 138^th running of the Kentucky Derby can be seen throughout the Museum on high-definition televisions courtesy of Best Buy, as well as in the Hall of Fame gallery on the Museum’s theatre screen in high-definition.

Borel takes aim at a racing first

By BRIEN BOUYEA

Jockey Calvin Borel will look to make some more history when he rides Super Saver in the Preakness Stakes on Saturday. Already only one of only nine jockeys to win the Kentucky Derby three times, and the only one to win it three times in a four-year span, Borel could become the first jockey to ever win back-to-back editions of both the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes.

Of the jockeys other than Borel who won back-to-back runnings of the Kentucky Derby — Isaac Murphy (1890 and 1891), Jimmy Winkfield (1901 and 1902), Ron Turcotte (1972 and 1973) and Eddie Delahoussaye (1982 and 1983) — none of them doubled up with the Preakness in both of those years, although Turcotte did win the 1973 Preakness with Secretariat on the way to the Triple Crown.

Borel, who won last year’s Run for the Roses on 50-1 shot Mine That Bird and followed by capturing the second jewel of the Triple Crown with Rachel Alexandra, is on the verge of accomplishing something no other jockey has ever done.

The other jockeys who have won the Kentucky Derby at least three times — Eddie Arcaro, Bill Hartack, Bill Shoemaker, Murphy, Earl Sande, Angel Cordero, Jr., Gary Stevens and Kent Desormeaux — are all in the Hall of Fame.