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Lawrin 1938 Kentucky Derby Winner
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What if I told you that a Kentucky Derby winning horse was buried in Prairie Village, Kansas? • It's true. • On the west side of Mission Road in Prairie Village, Kansas, at what is 80th Street, you will find a proud black metal sign with white letters at the top, Corinth Downs , dominate above the names of four other courts settled amongst neatly trimmed hedges and bushes. It wasn't always this way. In fact, it wasn't until in the 1970s that developer J.C. Nichols changed the 200 acres of property he purchased in 1955 and made it Corinth Downs Homes Association. As you drive down what has now become Le Mans Court, you will see markers that say Private Street, but respectful visitors to Lawrin seem to be welcome during daylight hours. The home owners likely know every car in the association, and they know that cars that never turn off of Le Mans Court are there for Lawrin. That's right, follow the curve as it turns to the right until you find yourself at a cul-de-sac. You might feel as though you are trespassing, but the home owners are used to visitors. • In the middle of that cul-de-sac is a well-maintained memorial to the only horse from Kansas to win the famed Kentucky Derby. The year was 1938, and what is now a quiet group of beautiful homes was a farm owned by Herbert M. Woolf, the president of the Woolf Brothers department stores. On his farm, Woolford Farms, he had beautiful horses, raised for show. Then, one day in 1933, Herbert purchased Insco, whose father, Sir Gallahad II, had already fathered three Kentucky Derby Winners. Insco, himself, had been in the derby, finishing 6th in 1931, was a special horse. For on the day that Herbert met his new horse, a thunderstorm rolled in and many bidders didn't show. Herbert, of Woolf Brothers, paid his $500 and left that action with Insco. He left with a $500 horse who would father a horse that would win $50,000 on May 7, 1938 at the Kentucky Derby. • Lawrin's jockey, Eddie Arcaro, would go on to jockey four more horses to Kentucky Derby wins, but he would always say that his most exciting race was in 1938 on the back of Lawrin. • For more information, and to hear the radio recording of the race, go to... http://www.kansastravel.org/lawrin.htm
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