Oliver Lewis, the Black jockey who won the first Kentucky Derby in 1875, was commemorated with a statue on June 24 at ...

Statue of legendary Jockey set for unveiling at Churchill on Wednesday according to a press release from Churchill Downs ...

Organizers say the monument also recognizes the broader legacy of Black horsemen whose contributions helped shape Churchill Downs history.

There were three Oliver Lewises in Lexington born around roughly the same time. Butler sorted through obituaries, death certificates and historical records until she finally found a notice reporting ...

Oliver Lewis won the first Kentucky Derby. For more than a century, those seven words largely remained as the only fact known about the jockey who rode Aristides to victory in 1875. Now the rider — a ...

A statue honoring jockey Oliver Lewis, the Black man who won the first Kentucky Derby in 1875 aboard Aristides, was unveiled at Churchill Downs on Wednesday, June 24. Lewis, born a slave in Woodford ...

"It is about honoring a man who refused to be broken when the world tried to erase him," said Lewis' great-great-grandson Rodney Van Johnson.

Churchill Downs unveiled a new statue Wednesday honoring Oliver Lewis, the jockey who guided Aristides to victory in the ...

Oliver Lewis, the Black jockey who won the first Kentucky Derby in 1875, was commemorated with a statue on June 24 at ...