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The Derby Stakes, also known as the Derby or the Epsom Derby, is a Group 1 flat horse race in England open to three-year-old colts and fillies. 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 ]
Epsom Derby (1862) Caractacus (1859–1878) was a Thoroughbred racehorse that won the 1862 Epsom Derby . The 1862 Derby was memorable due to the large field (34 horses), the winner being ridden by a 16-year-old stable boy and Caractacus' near disqualification for an underweight jockey and a false start.
Gustavus (1818–1840) was a Thoroughbred racehorse that won the 1821 Epsom Derby. Gustavus was the first grey horse to win the Epsom Derby. He raced until he was four years old and was retired to stud in 1823. Gustavus was exported to Prussia in 1836, at the age of 18. Gustavus was not a successful sire.
Slip Anchor (1982–2011) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning the 1985 Epsom Derby by seven lengths.After showing some promise as a two-year-old, he showed substantial improvement in the spring of 1985, winning the Derby Trial at Lingfield Park Racecourse by ten lengths before recording a rare start-to-finish win in the Derby.
1913 Epsom Derby. Craganour (3rd from left) and Aboyeur (4th from left) get in each others' way. The 1913 Epsom Derby, sometimes referred to as "The Suffragette Derby", was a horse race which took place at Epsom Downs on 4 June 1913. It was the 134th running of the Derby. The race was won, controversially, by Aboyeur at record 100–1 odds.
Beadsman was a "blood-like, wiry-looking, but rather leggy" [1] horse with a dark brown coat standing 15.2½ hands high. [2] He was bred by his owner Sir Joseph Hawley . Beadsman was sent into training with George Manning, at his stable at Cannons Heath, near Kingsclere in Hampshire , although decisions regarding his racing career were all made ...
Significant horses Aboyeur Edwin Piper (1888 - 1951) was a British flat racing jockey , who won the 1913 Epsom Derby , also known as the "Suffragette Derby" due to the death of suffragette Emily Davison during the race, on Aboyeur .
He was named after an inn at Epsom that was frequented by racing officials during the week of the Derby. [2] First raced at age three, Spread Eagle won 100 guinea race at Newmarket in 1795, followed by wins in the Prince's Stakes (second class) and the Epsom Derby. Illness in the later part of 1795 prevented him racing until 1796.