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Special only for us, insider’s tour of Keeneland and enjoy a traditional southern lunch, while learning from famed jockey Chris McCarron! Then join us for an exclusive insider tour of Darley Thoroughbred Farm where we will meet Holy Bull and other stallions up close and personal.
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Holy Bull Chris McCarron Christopher John “Chris” McCarron began riding professionally in 1974 at East Coast racetracks where he won the 1974 Eclipse Award for Outstanding Apprentice Jockey in the United States. In 1980 won the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Jockey as best overall jockey and that same year his peers voted him the prestigious George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award. McCarron won nine Breeders’ Cup races, including five Breeders’ Cup Classics, and rode six winners in the U.S. Triple Crown Races. In 1989 Chris McCarron was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame. After twenty-eight years in racing he retired in June 2002. He finished as thoroughbred racing’s all-time leader in purse earnings with more than $264 million in winnings. In 2005, McCarron announced he would be opening the first riding academy in the United States: the North American Racing Academy which is part of the Kentucky Community and Technical College System.
Holy Bull Holy Bull (born 1991) is an American Hall of Fame Champion Thoroughbred racehorse. He was sired by Great Above, whose dam was the U.S. Racing Hall of Fame filly Ta Wee. At age three, Holy Bull won eight out of ten starts, five of which were Grade I events. In later years, Holy Bull dominated American racing. He defeated older horses Cherokee Run, Devil His Due and Colonial Affair in the Metropolitan Handicap. His victory in the Metropolitan marked the beginning of a six-race winning streak that included the Dwyer Stakes, Haskell Invitational Handicap, Travers Stakes, and Woodward Stakes. Holy Bull ended the 1994 racing season as U.S. Champion 3-year-old male and Horse of the Year. In retirement he stands stud at Darley’s Jonabell Farm in Lexington, Kentucky. His offspring include 2000 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile winner and U.S. Champion 2-year-old male Macho Uno, 2005 Kentucky Derby winner Giacomo, and 2007 Stephen Foster Handicap winner Flashy Bull. In the Blood-Horse magazine List of the Top 100 Racehorses of the 20th Century, Holy Bull was ranked #64. In 2001, he was inducted in the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame.