• American thoroughbred race horse Little Current received the 1974 Eclipse Award for Outstanding 3-Year-Old Male Horse despite having his racing career ended mid-season by a bone chip in his leg?

Facts on topics related to Little Current (horse)

Secretariat (horse)

• African-American groom Eddie Sweat is depicted with Secretariat in a life-sized statue at the Kentucky Horse Park?
• the thoroughbred horse Onion never won another stakes race after his upset defeat of Secretariat in the 1973 Whitney Handicap?

Kentucky Derby

• 1943 Triple Crown winner Count Fleet was both sire of and sired by Kentucky Derby winners?
• racehorse Lil E. Tee, who was deemed so worthless that even an auction company rejected him as unsaleable, won the 1992 Kentucky Derby?
• Thoroughbred racehorse Gallant Man lost the 1957 Kentucky Derby by a nose after his jockey stood up to celebrate?
• Ed Brown (pictured) was an African-American slave who rose to become a Belmont Stakes-winning jockey and a Kentucky Derby-winning horse trainer?
• Forward Pass, an American Thoroughbred racehorse, was the only horse in the history of the Kentucky Derby to have been declared the winner as the result of a disqualification?
• Michael Matz, who trained the 2006 Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro, saved the lives of four children on the ill-fated United Airlines Flight 232 in 1989, and also carried the U.S. flag at the 1996 Summer Olympics Closing Ceremonies?
• Winning Colors is one of only three fillies to have won the Kentucky Derby?
• racehorse Clyde Van Dusen, winner of the 1929 Kentucky Derby, was named after his trainer?
• the American thoroughbred racehorse Meridian won the Kentucky Derby in 1911, establishing a new record time?
• the average speed of the contestants in the Great Steamboat Race, held each year before the Kentucky Derby, is only 7 miles per hour?

Belmont Stakes

• Ed Brown (pictured) was an African-American slave who rose to become a Belmont Stakes-winning jockey and a Kentucky Derby-winning horse trainer?