News Flash: Alumnus Makes the Kentucky Derby!

Tom McCarthy, a 1957 Union graduate, is a 75-year-old retired principal whose only horse will run in the Kentucky Derby on May 2. His remarkable journey has been called a “Cinderella story” by many and is garnering national attention.

Links to articles in The New York Times, The Courier-Journal, and the Lexington Herald-Leader are below. Read more about him and be sure to root for a fellow alumnus and his horse, General Quarters, on May 2.

The New York Times:  “With Smallest of Stables, Trainer Tom McCarthy Reaches Biggest Race.”

Lexington Herald-Leader:  “From Small-Scale to Big Time in One Amazing Day: Retired Principal Gets Shot at Derby.”

The Courier-Journal: “Stories Like McCarthy’s Make Racing.”