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Glasgow News 1
Mary Wood Weldon Memorial Library, together with Kentucky Chautauqua, will present Roscoe Tarleton Goose: Kentucky Derby Winner at 6:00 p.m., Tuesday, April 30 at the library,
1530 S. Green Street, Glasgow, Kentucky.
Roscoe Tarleton Goose was born on a Jeffersontown, Kentucky farm in 1891. As a child, Roscoe took a job riding horses for a blacksmith in Louisville to help his family’s finances. Fearless and slight of build, Goose was a natural horseman. While exercising horses at Churchill Downs, Goose was approached by trainer John Kuprion to ride as a jockey. By autumn of 1910, Roscoe Tarleton Goose 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 what was a stunning victory, Roscoe Tarleton 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.
Roscoe Tarleton Goose is portrayed by Eddie Price of Hawesville. Price is a graduate of Kentucky Wesleyan College and Western Kentucky University. He worked as a high school history teacher for more than 30 years and a part-time instructor at Owensboro Community & Technical College for 21 years. Price is the author of the award-winning historical fiction novel Widder’s Landing and is a member of the Kentucky Humanities Speakers Bureau.
Kentucky Chautauqua is an exclusive presentation of Kentucky Humanities with support from the National
Endowment for the Humanities and from: Christina Lee Brown, the Carson-Myre Charitable Foundation, and PNC.
Kentucky Humanities is a non-profit Kentucky corporation affiliated with the National Endowment for the Humanities.
For more information, visit kyhumanities.org or call (859) 257-5932.
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