At the request of Billie Mallory, former CKCPJ Board member, the CKCPJ Board has recently agreed to donate $200 to purchase books/print memorial bookmarks for an upcoming Convocation honoring Isaac Murphy, the best known black jockey from Lexington's East End.
Murphy raced at the original Kentucky Association racetrack and rode several Kentucky Derby winners.
Keeneland, William Wells Brown Neighborhood Association, the Lyric Theatre and other community partners are hosting the author, Pellom McDaniels, author of the biography, Prince of Jockeys: Isaac Burns Murphy. Professor McDaniels will be visiting Lexington in the last week of April.
The Convocation will host 6-8 local schools to learn about Murphy's legend and contributions to the thoroughbred industry. The event will also promote of the soon-to-be-completed Isaac Murphy Memorial Art Garden and its valued place in the East End. Mallory is coordinating the Convocation event that is being sponsored by the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government. The CKCPJ will donate a copy of the Prince of Jockeys to the library of each school that attends. Bookmarks will be given to each student.
The Convocation will take place on April 29, 2015.
This is a wonderful initiative. I didn't know him until now.
Thank you.
SB
Links
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Burns_Murphy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5_mUwebP2w
Posted by: Susmita Barua | 04/03/2015 at 08:01 AM