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"Best of the Blue Grass Stakes" on WVLK with Tom Leach
In 1991, radio personality Tom Leach produced this top ten ranking of Blue Grass Stakes races. The ranking was voted on by a panel of featured interviewees including legendary racing jockeys, owners, trainers, and farm managers including former…
Horses break from the gate in 1976 Blue Grass
This photograph captures the start of the 1976 Blue Grass Stakes. Honest Pleasure, driven by Braulio Baeza, would capture the victory and go on to a second place showing in the Kentucky Derby.
The 1976 Blue Grass field
This photograph captures an infield view of a packed grandstand and apron during the running of the 1976 Blue Grass Stakes won by Honest Pleasure. The colt, piloted by Braulio Baeza, would finish second in the Kentucky Derby.
Foolish Pleasure (L) and Honest Pleasure (R)
Half-brothers Foolish Pleasure (left) and Honest Pleasure (right) in the stables before Honest Pleasure’s 1976 Blue Grass win. The Champion Two-Year-Old Male won the Flamingo Stakes by 11 lengths in late February and the Florida Derby in early April…