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The Great Steamboat Race is an annual steamboat race, taking place the Wednesday before the first Saturday of May, three days before the Kentucky Derby, as part of the Kentucky Derby Festival. The race was first run in 1963 and it takes place on the Ohio River in the span that runs between Louisville, Kentucky and Jeffersonville ...
Hace 1 día · The Belle of Louisville was declared the winner in 2023. Come see if our beloved local steamboat reigns supreme in 2024. The race lasts about 2 hours, finishing back at the Wharf. Following the race, the victor is awarded the pair of coveted Silver Antlers during an Awards Ceremony at the Chow Wagon at Kroger’s Fest-a-Ville.
4 de may. de 2023 · by Kelby Ouchley. Currier & Ives, Library of Congress. The great Mississippi steamboat race: from New Orleans to St. Louis, July 1870. An event that became known as the Great American Steamboat Race pitted the steamboats Robert E. Lee and Natchez in an epic twelve-hundred-mile race from New Orleans to St. Louis, Missouri, in 1870.
26 de abr. de 2023 · History Correspondent. April 26, 2023. A lithograph of the 1870 Great Mississippi Steamboat Race Metropolitan Museum of Art under public domain. During the 19th century, hundreds of...
Hace 1 día · WATCH LIVE: 2024 Great Steamboat Races. LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - The Great Steamboat Race returns on Wednesday, May 1. It’s one of the oldest rivals during Derby Festival season, where the Belle of Louisville will race the Belle of Cincinnati. The two boats will compete for bragging rights and the coveted Silver Antlers in the long-running ...
26 de abr. de 2022 · BROUGH BROTHERS DISTILLERY OFFICIAL BOURBON OF GREAT STEAMBOAT RACE. April 26. 2022. Louisville, KY. – It will be a Battle of two Belles and a Countess along the Ohio River as the Liberty Financial Great Steamboat Race, returns on Wednesday, May 4.
4 de may. de 2023 · LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The Belle of Louisville remains queen of the Ohio River for the fourth straight year. The hometown steamboat was declared the winner of the Great Steamboat Race Wednesday night following deliberations by the judges, the boat Captains, Derby Festival Officials and Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg.
