{"id":485992,"date":"2026-10-05T18:34:52","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T18:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/485992\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T18:34:52","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T18:34:52","slug":"80000-statue-of-kentucky-derby-winner-stolen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/485992\/","title":{"rendered":"$80,000 statue of Kentucky Derby winner stolen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KOVR\/NEWSOURCE\/WKRC) \u2014 An $80,000 statue honoring a Kentucky Derby winner has been reported stolen in Sacramento.<\/p>\n<p>The 7-foot statue of Ben Ali, the winner of the 1886 Kentucky Derby, was taken from the North Sacramento neighborhood where it had stood for decades,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/sacramento\/news\/bronze-statue-kentucky-derby-winner-stolen-sacramento\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> according to KOVR<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mina Perez, vice chair of the North Sacramento Chamber of Commerce, said the statue was an important piece of the community\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo have something as significant as this, it\u2019s just over the top, and it gives us that pride of wonderful. And we have a piece of history that is just beautiful, and now it\u2019s just gone, so what do we do?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Perez said the city does not currently have the funding needed to replace the statue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey don\u2019t have the funding to do this. I don\u2019t know if they\u2019ll ever have the money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Sacramento Police Department is investigating the theft and asking anyone who may have information to contact authorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KOVR\/NEWSOURCE\/WKRC) \u2014 An $80,000 statue honoring a Kentucky Derby winner has been reported stolen in Sacramento.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":485993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-485992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485992","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=485992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}