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Santa Claus (1961–1970) was a British-bred, Irish-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and sire.He is most notable for his achievements as a three-year-old in 1964 when he won the Irish 2,000 Guineas, The Derby, and the Irish Derby.
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 ]
Category for winners of England's most famous horse race, the Epsom Derby. Pages in category "Epsom Derby winners" The following 200 pages are in this category, out ...
At Epsom Downs Racecourse on 7 June, Royal Palace started 7/4 favourite for the Derby. An unusual feature of the build-up to the race was the huge public gamble on the outsider El Mighty, who was backed from odds of 200/1 to 25/1 after a Peterborough shopkeeper claimed to have seen the horse winning in a dream. [ 4 ]
Relko was a "strong, compact, perfectly balanced" [2] bay horse standing just over 16.1 hands high with a narrow white stripe and three white socks. [3] He was bred by his owner François Dupré at his stud farm in Pont-d'Ouilly in the Basse-Normandie region.
After showing little worthwhile form as a two-year-old, Airborne improved to become one of the leading three-year-olds in Britain in 1946. He won five successive races including two Classics: the Derby at Epsom and the St Leger at Doncaster. He was the most recent of four greys to have won the Epsom Classic. [2]
Apart from Parthia, his most notable offspring was the 1000 Guineas winner Zabara. His dam, Lightning won one race and was a half sister of Alcide. Alcide, who ran for the same owner and trainer as Parthia, had been the ante-post favourite for the 1958 Derby but was withdrawn from the race after being “got at” (deliberately injured) in his ...
His dam was the race winner, and Star mare, Crepuscule by Mieuxce. Crepuscule created a British bloodstock record by producing Classic winners, Honeylight and Crepello as her first two foals. [ 2 ] Crepello was a half-brother to Honeylight (won One Thousand Guineas Stakes) and Twilight Alley ( Ascot Gold Cup Stakes).