Random Trivia

In 1780, Edward Smith Stanley and his friend Sir Charles Burnbury, both horse breeders, founded a horse race in Epsom, England. The race was to be a one mile test of three year old thoroughbreds. They couldn't decide on what to name the race, and so the flipped a coin to determine who the race should be named after. Stanley won the coin flip, and the race was named after him, the 12th Earl of Derby.