OUR QUESTION THIS WEEK IS HAS A BLACK JOCKEY EVER WON THE KENTUCKY DERBY? THE ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION IS YES. IT WAS OLIVER LEWIS IN 1875. AT THAT TIME, THE SPORT WAS DOMINATED BY BLACK HORSEMEN.

Aristides won the very first Kentucky Derby, but history also remembers the colt’s jockey: Oliver Lewis, a Black jockey from Lexington.

If this May marks your first trip to the Kentucky Derby, you probably have a couple of questions. OK, maybe a few more than that. The length of the Kentucky Derby race is a mile and a quarter ...