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Rigging Races on the Rivers?

Season 2026 Episode 8 | 1m 49s

Travis Vasconcelos with the Howard Steamboat Museum in Jeffersonville, IN spoke to Across Indiana producers the week of the Great Steamboat Race & Kentucky Derby, explaining not only how dangerous the spectacle used to be, but also some of the shady dealings behind the scenes of the historic race between the Cincinnati and the America in 1928.