1989 Kentucky Derby

115th Kentucky Derby
Kentucky Derby
Grade I stakes race
Location	Churchill Downs
Date	May 6, 1989
Winning horse	Sunday Silence
Jockey	Pat Valenzuela
Trainer	Charles E. Whittingham
Owner	Hancock III, Gaillard & Whittingham
Conditions	Muddy
Surface	Dirt
Attendance	122,653
	← 1988 1990 →

The 1989 Kentucky Derby was the 115th running of the Kentucky Derby. The race took place on May 6, 1989,^[1] with 122,653 people in attendance.^[2] The race took place on a track that was listed as muddy but was drying out very well. The time on the 1+1⁄4-mile was the slowest time since Tim Tam rode to victory at the same length at also the same time of 2:05. Sunday Silence took the win with a 2 1/2 length victory over the favorite to win, Easy Goer.^[3]

^ Kentucky Derby History, 1989
^ "Derby & Oaks Attendance Since 1980" (PDF). Retrieved 2020-01-24.
^ "Figure 4—figure supplement 2. Experiment 2: filtered skin conductance traces (band-pass at 0.0159–2 Hz, 1st order Butterworth), averaged across all trials within participant (n = 20, excluded participants not shown, shaded region represent SEM across all participants)". doi:10.7554/elife.31949.014. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

[1] Kentucky Derby History, 1989

[2] "Derby & Oaks Attendance Since 1980" (PDF). Retrieved 2020-01-24.

[3] "Figure 4—figure supplement 2. Experiment 2: filtered skin conductance traces (band-pass at 0.0159–2 Hz, 1st order Butterworth), averaged across all trials within participant (n = 20, excluded participants not shown, shaded region represent SEM across all participants)". doi:10.7554/elife.31949.014. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

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