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1916 Kentucky Derby

42nd running of the Kentucky Derby

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ4560208 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1916 Kentucky Derby was the 42nd running of the Kentucky Derby. The race took place on May 13, 1916.

Full results

Winning Breeder: Jack P. Chinn & Frederick A. Forsythe; (KY)

Horses St. Isidore, Bulse, and Huffaker scratched before the race.

Payout

The winner received a purse of $9,750.

Second place received $2,000.

Third place received $1,000.

Fourth place received $225.

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“1916 Kentucky Derby” enters the record as 42nd running of the Kentucky Derby. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Kentucky, Derby and 42nd can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “1916 Kentucky Derby” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.