1970 Kentucky Derby

Derby Winning Trainer Don Combs Passes Away

Don Combs, who, as a 31-year-old trainer, won the 1970 GI Kentucky Derby with Dust Commander, passed away Sunday morning at Sayre Christian Village in Lexington. He was 86. The cause of death was a stroke. "His first wife called me this morning and said he had a stroke," said family friend Bobby Penn. "I had been up to see him about a month or two ago. Everything was ok then. He knew me and everything. I told her I would come back and see him. She called me this...

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