{"id":484556,"date":"2026-10-04T05:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T05:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/484556\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T05:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T05:08:08","slug":"statue-of-kentucky-derby-winner-ben-ali-stolen-in-sacramento","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/484556\/","title":{"rendered":"Statue of Kentucky Derby winner Ben Ali stolen in Sacramento"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A life-size bronze statue of California\u2019s first Kentucky Derby winner was stolen last week from a road median in north Sacramento.<\/p>\n<p>The statue of Ben Ali, a thoroughbred stallion who won the race at Churchill Downs in 1886, was reported stolen Wednesday, the Sacramento Police Department said in a press release.<\/p>\n<p>The statue, dedicated in 2008, stood on a concrete slab between lanes of traffic outside the Sacramento Youth Center in the 1900 block of Del Paso Boulevard. The thieves left behind only a single bronze hoof.<\/p>\n<p>The model for the statue once trained at Rancho Del Paso in northern Sacramento County.<\/p>\n<p>The Del Paso Boulevard Business Assn. announced the theft last week in an Instagram post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBen Ali Stolen!!!!\u201d it read. \u201cHe must be returned!!!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Police are looking for the thieves and the bronze racehorse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A life-size bronze statue of California\u2019s first Kentucky Derby winner was stolen last week from a road median&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6236,7,9,8,189563,25165,13020,5562,189562,63,2211,189561,121,13562,8041,189564,821],"class_list":["post-484556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-block","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-concrete-slab","tag-del-paso-boulevard","tag-lane","tag-last-week","tag-life-size-bronze-statue","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-race","tag-road-median","tag-sacramento","tag-statue","tag-thief","tag-thoroughbred-stallion","tag-traffic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}