5pm Mint Julep Charity Honors Black Jockeys 04.06.2021

THIS YEAR'S WOODFORD RESERVE ONE-THOUSAND DOLLAR MINT JULEP CHARITY PROGRAM HONORS BLACK JOCKEYS WHO DOMINATED HORSE RACING IN ITS EARLY YEARS.

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This year's woodford reserve one-thousand dollar mint julep charity program honors black jockeys who dominated horse racing in its early years.

One-hundred julep cups are on sale now online.

We have a link on our website...wtvq.com.

Eleven cups are gold-plated and sell for 25-hundred dollars each... the rest are silver- plated and sell for one-thousand dollars...each engraved with the name of a black jockey and when they won the kentucky derby.

And, there's a theme and a history for this year's flavor...cherries and cream.

"we thought what better way to celebrate the black jockeys than to look at the menus or the dinners that celebrated their wins their championships in the middle of the late 19th century."

Proceeds from this year's cup sales benefit the project to protect african- american turf history... which is a non-profit organization, based in kentucky, that has been working for more than a decade to tell the history of black jockeys....many who dominated in the kentucky derby's early years.

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