Derby Museum vs. Reed: It's scratch and Snitch

From: Chicago Sun-Times | Date: June 19, 2003| Author: Jim O'Donnell | Copyright information

HELL APPARENTLY hath no fury like a regionally privileged race track that has had the integrity of its Kentucky Derby questioned.

Billy Reed--the Eclipse Award-winning journalist who authored a freelance article suggesting that multiple Runs for the Roses may have been tampered with by the same bluegrass-based veterinarian over the last 55 years--has been poleaxed as curator of the Kentucky Derby Museum. The museum is housed at Churchill Downs.

REED SAID he received news of his o...