00:23Hello out there. Peabody and Sherman here. Any idea where Churchill Downs is, Sherman?
00:29Sure, Mr. Peabody. It's in Kentucky.
00:31Right, boy. And that's our target for today. Set the Wayback Machine for the year 1875.
00:37We'll be on hand for the first running of the Kentucky Derby.
00:42The Wayback whisked us through time and space directly to the stable area where the horses were being readied for
00:47the classic race.
00:48I got him! I got the sneaking Yankee varmint!
00:53Golly, Mr. Peabody, somebody's been shot.
00:55Yes, and he'll never bite my horse again.
00:59Somebody bit your horse?
01:00That's right. Big one, ain't he?
01:03Oh, it's only a fly.
01:04No ordinary fly, Sherman. This is a tsetse fly, an African species whose victims fall prey to sleeping sickness.
01:12Good thing I got him, then.
01:14By the way, I'm Colonel Beauregard, and that's my horse, Alert.
01:18Anyone could see that Alert was far from living up to her name.
01:21That's funny. She never sleeped before a race. Wake up, girl. We got some running to do.
01:29But try as he might, the Colonel couldn't rouse the sleeping steed.
01:32Look, Mr. Peabody, she's been bitten.
01:34Fearing the worst, Colonel Beauregard called in a horse doctor.
01:38That's my diagnosis, Colonel. Alert here's got an acute case of sleeping sickness.
01:44But she can't have. The derby's gonna start any minute.
01:48Not with your horse in it. Tough luck, Colonel.
01:52Oh, I'm ruined. I wagered the old plantation on this race.
01:57Don't give up, Colonel. Mr. Peabody will think of something.
02:00And moments later, a semi-aroused Alert stood with her competitors at the starting line.
02:06How'd you do it? How'd you get her to even walk?
02:09This bottle of glue. A horse will do anything to keep from going to a glue factory.
02:14Merely inhaling, this bottle should keep Alert alert.
02:18Hot dog, we're gonna win after all.
02:22The Colonel's optimism was premature, for just then Alert's jockey entered the scene.
02:27Hello, Colonel.
02:29Shorty.
02:30Shorty? What happened to you, boy?
02:33I grew, Colonel. This morning I was three foot seven.
02:37Now I'm seven foot three.
02:39I guess it was them Vitamines what done it.
02:42Vitamines? Who give them to you?
02:44The horse doctor.
02:46Uh, it would seem as though that horse doctor doesn't want your horse to run.
02:50Yes, but why?
02:51What else does he do besides doctor horses?
02:54He runs them.
02:55Oh?
02:55Yeah. He owns the favorite in the race.
02:59Sherman, how do you sit a hobby horse?
03:02I haven't been thrown yet, Mr. Peabody.
03:04Hmm, good boy.
03:06Now take this glue, and whenever Alert falters, give her a short inhalation.
03:10Thus, at post time, there were two contenders for the run for the roses.
03:14The race was on, with Alert running a close second.
03:17Unfortunately, upon rounding the first turn, a billboard advertising sleeping pills caught her eye, and...
03:23The glue, Sherman! The glue!
03:27The glue!
03:28When he loused, Colonel Beauregard's valiant charger overtook and passed her adversary.
03:33I'll fix that, horse.
03:36Lullaby, and good night.
03:40Da-da-dee-da, da-da-da.
03:43Sherman rose to the occasion and quickly applied the bottle of glue.
03:47That's when Fagin passed and brought his blow-dart talents to the fore.
03:52Without the glue, it appeared as though Alert would finish the race next year.
03:56I'm through. My horse has had it.
03:59Not yet, she hasn't.
04:01With a brush and a large bottle of ink, I hurriedly painted a sign.
04:04Alert, at peace with the world, near the far turn, took one look through half-opened eyes, and...
04:10She won!
04:12My horse went and won!
04:14The horse doctor and Fagin were found guilty of selling vitamins without a license,
04:19and were compelled to clean up the track.
04:21As for Colonel Beauregard, he and Alert accepted the plaudits for a well-deserved victory.
04:27Smile for the cameras, honey!
04:29You did it again, Mr. Peabody!
04:31Don't I always, Sherman?
04:33By the way, in winning the derby, I also gave Kentucky something to be proud of.
04:37You did?
04:38Yes.
04:39In painting the sign, I happened to spill the bottle of blue ink all over the green grass.
04:44But somehow, I think Kentucky will be proud of it.
04:47Blue grass of Kentucky.
04:50I like that.
04:53Blue grass of Kentucky.
04:53Blue grass of Kentucky.
04:58Blue grass of Kentucky.
05:00Blue grass of Kentucky.
05:01Blue grass of Kentucky.
05:01Blue grass of Kentucky.
05:01Blue grass of Kentucky.
05:01Blue grass of Kentucky.
