Pleasant Colony wins
NZPA-Reuter Louisville Jorge Velasauez weaved the second favouriee, Pleasant Colony, through a congested 21horse field to win the 107th Kentucky Derby, first leg of the Trinle Crown for three-vear-olds, at Churchill Downs on Saturday. Pleasant Colony, trained b.v Johnny Campo, won the mile and a quarter race by threequarters of a length from the fast-finishing longshot. Woodchopper, ridden by Eddie Delahoussaye. • The victory earned Pleasant Colony’s owner and Virginia industrialist, Thomas Evans, prize monev of $317,200 from a record $404,700 purse. Another outsider. Partez, took third place, three lengths behind Woodchopper.
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Press, 4 May 1981, Page 30
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