Saving Stories: Not quite business as usual - the day William T. Young won the Kentucky Derby

University of Kentucky Special Collections

To some, Lexington businessman W.T. Young is known as the namesake of the University of Kentucky’s iconic library building, to others he’s the entrepreneur who built a peanut butter brand and sold it to P & G, and in the world of thoroughbred racing he’s the man who molded Overbrook Horse Farm into a powerhouse breeding facility. In fact, in 1996, Grindstone, a three-year old colt owned by Young, won the Kentucky Derby, beating out Cavonnier by a nose at the wire. In this Derby week edition of WUKY’s award winning history series Saving Stories, Nunn Center for Oral History director Doug Boyd shares audio of a 2001 interview with the now legendary Lexingtonian.

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The Nunn Center has an extensive collection of horseracing interviews which you can access here:

https://kentuckyoralhistory.org/ark:/16417/xt78gt5ff61n

In addition the Nunn Center conducted several interviews on a variety of topics with W.T. Young:

https://kentuckyoralhistory.org/ark:/16417/xt7cnp1wh45p