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...woman to win the Derby since Mrs. Payne Whitney's victory with Twenty Grand (1931) was taken down to the judges' stand to receive the $5,000 gold trophy. Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley made appropriate remarks. Bumbling Governor Ruby Laffoon of Kentucky said it gave him "inexpress-, inexp- unexplainable pleasure" to present the cup. He then turned to the microphone, urged everybody to come to Kentucky on Labor Day to celebrate the bicentennial of the birth of that great Kentuckian, that great friend of horses, "Dan'l Boone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: 6oth Derby | 5/14/1934 | See Source »

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