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Oliver Lewis

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African Americans and Horse Racing

In African Americans and Horse Racing
…was an African American jockey, Oliver Lewis.
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Kentucky Derby

In Kentucky Derby: History
Those wins included Oliver Lewis’s victory in the first Derby, in which 13 of the 15 competing jockeys were Black; Lewis rode Aristides, a horse trained by a former slave, Ansel Williamson. Isaac Burns Murphy, born in Kentucky in 1861, was one of the greatest American jockeys of…
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