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Louisville, Kentucky USA  State Song
Kentucky Derby, annual horse race that has been run at Churchill Downs racetrack, in Louisville, Kentucky, on the first Saturday of May since 1875. The race is limited to horses 3 years of age. The Kentucky Derby is one of the three races for 3-year-olds that make up the Triple Crown of horse racing. The other two races are the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico in Baltimore, Maryland, and the Belmont Stakes, at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York. The largest city of Kentucky, in the north-central part of the state on the Ohio River west of Lexington. On the site of a fort built by George Rogers Clark in 1778. Population, 269,000+. 
A state of the east-central United States. It was admitted as the 15th state in 1792. Daniel Boone's Transylvania Company made the first permanent settlement in the area in 1775. By the Treaty of Paris (1783) the territory became part of the United States. Frankfort is the capital and Louisville the largest city. Population, 3,698,900+. |
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