Celebrate the upcoming Kentucky Derby with a thrilling historical presentation by Eddie Price. In this Chautauqua performance, Eddie portrays Roscoe Tarleton Goose. Roscoe was born on a Jeffersontown, Kentucky, farm in 1891. As a child, he took a job riding horses for a blacksmith in Louisville to help his family's finances. While exercising horses at Churchill Downs, Goose was approached by trainer John Kuprion to ride as a jockey. By autumn of 1910, he was the leading money winning jockey at Churchill Downs and was one of the top riders in America. A few years later, he had attracted the attention of trainer and farm owner Thomas Patrick Hayes. Hayes had a horse called Donerail he wanted Goose to ride in the Kentucky Derby. In a stunning victory, Goose and Donerail won the 1913 Kentucky Derby. The race odds were set at 91:1, the longest odds of a Derby winner, a record which still stands.

This program was funded in part by Kentucky Humanities, PNC Financial Services, and the Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels.