Welcome to the TG board. Looks like you aren't quite a "late arrival" with a week or so until Oaks Day. Here is a start on your research that gets you from '76 to '03.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2003-05-16-0305160135-story.html

"Everybody has to train their own way," Tagg said. "My job is to protect the horse and win the race. I think the main thing is to do what suits you and what suits the horse."

[size=medium][i][b]Tagg's way worked on May 3 at Churchill Downs. Funny Cide became the first horse to win the Kentucky Derby without a workout or a race on the track since Bold Forbes in 1976.[/b][/i][/size]

Funny Cide's last workout before the Derby was a snappy 5 furlongs in 58 2/5 seconds on April 29 at Belmont. Tagg flew the gelding from New York to Churchill Downs on April 30 and sent him out for a 1-mile jog on May 1 and a 2-mile jog on May 2. On Derby morning he had one last jog around the track.