BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//sebbo.net//ical-generator//EN NAME:Anderson Public Library X-WR-CALNAME:Anderson Public Library BEGIN:VEVENT UID:5b29ffcc-5c6c-4765-87e6-fbc5bdcc2db7 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20260806T011901Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230422T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230422T160000 SUMMARY:Eddie Price as Roscoe Tarleton Goose Kentucky Derby Winner LOCATION:Anderson Public Library\nAnderson Public Library X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Anderson Public Library;X- APPLE-RADIUS=10;X-TITLE=Anderson Public Library:geo:38.0384572,-84.8964429 GEO:38.0384572;-84.8964429 DESCRIPTION:Eddie Price takes us back in history as he portrays Roscoe Tar leton Goose:\nKentucky Derby Winner\n1891-1971.\nhttps://aplkentucky.libne t.info/event/8043313 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Roscoe Tarleton Goose was born on a Jeffer sontown\, Kentucky farm in 1891. Rufus Ganz\, his father and a Civil War v eteran\, changed the family surname to &ldquo\;Goose\;&rdquo\;as Ganz was constantly misspelled &ldquo\;Gans\,&rdquo\; the German word for &ldquo\;g oose.&rdquo\;
After a particularly hard winter\, Rufus decided the fa mily was moving to the big city &mdash\; Louisville. They moved into a sma ll house in the Butchertown area. The Goose family was poor\, and Rufus wa s going blind due to an injury suffered in the war\, making it difficult f or him to earn a living. Roscoe went to work at an early age\, in an effor t to help the family&rsquo\;s finances.
His first job working with ho rses came when he began driving a horse and wagon delivering goods for a d epartment store &mdash\; driving to Germantown\, Limerick\, and Snitzelbur g. He loved the horses!
Goose was a natural horseman. He was slight o f build and fearless. While exercising horses at Churchill Downs\, Goose w as approached by trainer John Kuprion to ride as a jockey in the Hardin Co unty Fair in Elizabethtown. He scored a number of second- and third-place finishes\, solidifying his standing as a prominent young jockey. Soon afte r\, Goose scored five out of six victories at the Kentucky State Fairgroun ds races. Roscoe&rsquo\;s early career was threatened to be cut short by & ldquo\;reformers\,&rdquo\; who wanted to ban the sport of horse racing and gambling associated with it. Believing horse racing would no longer take place in Kentucky\, Goose moved to California to exercise horses and race as a jockey in Juarez\, Mexico.
Goose moved back to Kentucky in 1910\ , and continued to win races and earn larger fees. By autumn of 1910\, Ros coe Tarleton Goose was the leading money winning jockey at Churchill Downs and was one of the top riders in America. By 1913\, he had attracted the attention of trainer and farm owner Thomas Patrick Hayes. Hayes had a hors e called Donerail and wanted Goose to ride him in the Kentucky Derby. Rosc oe agreed to train with Donerail\, and rider and horse entered the 1913 Ke ntucky Derby.
In a stunning victory\, Roscoe Tarleton Goose and Doner ail won the 1913 Kentucky Derby. The odds were set at 91:1\, the longest o dds of a Derby winner\, a record which still stands. After the Derby win o f 1913\, Goose continued his stellar racing career until his retirement in 1915.

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