We’re talking about the 143rd Kentucky Derby, of course! That’s according to our exclusive 2017 Derby Countdown Clock™.
Left: Citation‘s winning trophy from 1948; he was the eighth Triple Crown Winner. It was designed by George Lewis Graff for the Louisville firm Lemon & Son, according to the International Museum of the Horse in Lexington.
We’re talking about the 143rd Kentucky Derby, of course! That’s according to our exclusive 2017 Derby Countdown Clock™. Until then, here’s figure skaters Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir at this year’s first Saturday in May.
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“Adidas has never, one time gotten me a basketball player in my 15 years. . . . They don’t promote their schools to recruits. Maybe it’s more because they are a European outfit, but Adidas has never one time directed a player my way.”
— University of Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino, speaking to The Courier-Journal and other media outlets about the school’s sticking with a five-year endorsement contract where Adidas pays U of L a combined $39 million.
The contract helps pay Pitino’s huge annual salary: $5.1 million next year vs. $4.4 million this year. He’s also due $7.5 million in retention bonuses kicking in every three years starting in 2017. All told, his 10-year contract is worth $50.9 million in salary, according to the CJ.
Related: See the sneakers players wore during the school’s 15 best performances. The pairs, top and above, are Crazy Fast; $70 at Amazon.
That’s the official figure from Churchill Downs; 2015’s remains the record year. Attendance during each of the preceding 10 years:
At $200,000 per “date,” The New York Times says today, the Triple Crown-winner’s earning owners Ashford Stud up to $600,000 a day — a $30 million annual haul — over the course of the five-month breeding season. The story is by long-time racing writer Joe Drape, whose book about the horse was published late last month; that’s the cover, left.
Related: Pharaoh has more than 90 mares in foal — a rate exceeding one per day, according to The Courier-Journal.
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