Huh? Seabiscuit was 75 years ago, not Exterminator.
OK. So my math is off.
Exterminator, better known as “Old Bones” because he was so boney, was placed in the running of the Kentucky Derby as a replacement. His owner was going to run another horse but that colt had sickened. When he won, Churchill Downs was silent. No one knew who he was.
That was nearly a hundred years ago.