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The Kentucky derby is every year on May 1st. It’s held at Churchhill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky. The Kentucky derby is also known as “The Run for the Roses” and “The Most exciting two minutes in sports”. It’s a 1.25 mile race held for three year old thoroughbred horses. An average of 150,000 people come to see it. The first race in 1875 held 10,000 people and only 15 thoroughbred horses in a race that was a 1.5 mile course. By the early 1900’s the owners of some of the derby winners started sending there horses to run in the Preakness stakes in New York. In 1930, sportswriter Charles Hatton coined the saying “Triple Crown” meaning that the same horses would be running three times continuously.