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Great Southern Derby Winners

Needles (1956)

Needles’s victory made him the first horse bred in Florida to win the Run for the Roses. Sickly as a youngster, he was named because of the number of veterinary procedures he endured in the early months of his life.

Photo: Courtesy of The Kentucky Derby Museum

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