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The Derby is restricted to three‐year‐olds and it is the most prestigious of the five Classic races. It has been held at Epsom since its inception and the unique track provides a daunting test for relatively young horses.
It is run at Epsom Downs Racecourse in Surrey on the first Saturday of June each year, over a distance of one mile, four furlongs and 10 yards (2,423 metres), or about 1½ miles. [1] It was first run in 1780. It is Britain's richest flat horse race, and the most prestigious of the five Classics.
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Lester Piggott has been first past the post in the Derby more times than any other jockey with 9 wins to his name. His winning rides came on Never Say Die (1954), Crepello (1957), St. Paddy (1960), Sir Ivor (1968), Nijinsky (1970), Roberto (1972), Empery (1976), The Minstrel (1977), Teenoso (1983). Sir Gordon Richards first won the Derby riding Pin...
Shergar won the race by the longest distance (10 lengths) in 1981 before the colt disappeared without a trace, believed kidnapped by the IRA. Workforce (pictured above) holds the record for the fastest winning time(2min 31.11sec) from 2010. Iroquois became the first American-bred horse to win the Derbyin 1881. Ruler Of The World became the first De...
The winners in 1844 and 1913 were not the horses first past the post. In 1844, Running Rein was found to be an ineligible 4-year-old horse named Maccabeus. In 1913 the 6/4 favourite Craganour was disqualified in controversial circumstances with the race being awarded to 100/1 outsider Aboyeur. The 1913 race is more famous for the protest by suffrag...
A mechanical starting gate was introduced to the Derby in 1901. The Derby was first broadcast by the BBC in 1927, but regular TV coverage didn’t get established until 1960. The most runners to ever take part in the race was 34in 1862, while the smallest field was just 4 in 1794. Follow all the action ahead of and after the Derby at Epsom here on Ho...
- Lammtarra, the 1995 Derby victor trained by Saeed bin Suroor, was the first horse to win the premier Classic on his seasonal debut since Grand Parade in 1919.
- Lammtarra’s record of the fastest time in the 234 runnings of the Derby was broken by Workforce in 2011. Workforce’s 2 minutes 31.33 seconds was 0.98 of a second faster than Lammtarra’s, whose own record in 1995 of 2 minutes 32.31 was over a second faster than the previous Derby record (hand-timed) of 2 minutes 33.8 seconds clocked by Mahmoud in 1936.
- The largest Derby field was 34 in 1862, and the smallest was just four in 1794. There is now a safety limit of 20 for the Derby.
- In 1992, Dr Devious became the first Derby winner to have earlier run in the Kentucky Derby. The Clive Brittain-trained Bold Arrangement, who finished second in the American Classic at Churchill Downs in 1986, was the first horse to run in both races, although he fared less well at Epsom, coming home 14th of the 17 runners.
May 30, 2017 · What it's all about The Derby is the traditional test to crown the best middle distance horse of its generation. The winner does not only pick up a £920,913.69 purse and earn their place in history, but is also all but guaranteed a lucrative career at stud as a stallion.
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A derby (UK: / ˈdɑːrbi / DAR-bee, US: / ˈdɜːrbi / DUR-bee) is a type of horse race named after the Derby Stakes run at Epsom Downs Racecourse in England. [1] That was in turn named after Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby, who inaugurated the race in 1780. [2]
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What is the Epsom Derby? The Derby Stakes as it was traditionally known, or now just simply referred to as the Derby or the Epsom Derby, is a Group One flat horse race in England open to three-year-old colts and fillies.
