Glasgow, KY – If you like history, and especially Kentucky history, you’ll definitely want to check out “Roscoe Tarleton Goose: Kentucky Derby Winner at the Mary Wood Weldon Memorial Library on Tuesday, April 30th. Mary Wood Weldon Memorial Library, together with Kentucky
Chautauqua, will present Roscoe Tarleton Goose: Kentucky Derby Winner just a week before the 150th running of the Kentucky Derby.
Roscoe Tarleton Goose is the trainer of the derby’s biggest longshot winner. This live drama will from his perspective. 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.
Amy Tollison, Adult Services Manager with the library, st down with WCLU News to talk more about this story and Kentucky Chatauqua.
You do not need a ticket. First come first serve at the Mary Wood Weldon Memorial Library on Tuesday April 30th at 6:00pm.