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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 ]
The 2024 Epsom Derby was the 245th annual running of the Derby horse race and took place at Epsom Downs Racecourse on 1 June 2024 at 4.30pm BST. The race was sponsored for the first time by the bookmaker Betfred. [1] The purse for 2024 was £1.5 million, with £850,650 in prize money for the winner. [2]
10 June – Channel 4 shows the Epsom Derby for the final time for more than the next decade as the contract for Epsom transfers to the BBC. Channel 4 had shown the event since 1984, and exclusively since 1989. It will return to the channel in 2013 for four more years. 2001. 9 June – For the first time since 1979, the BBC shows the Epsom ...
The monarch did not attend the major sporting event on Saturday, opting to view it on television from Windsor Castle. Excited Anne cheers and applauds in Queen’s absence at Epsom Derby Day Skip ...
Everything he did from the day we trained him, he was just the best." [19] On 20 November City of Troy claimed the 34th Cartier Horse of the Year accolade, as the second horse after Frankel to be crowned the achievement. [20] On 6 December City of Troy was voted World Pool Moment of the Year for his G1 Derby win at Epsom.
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Most Derby runners appear in at least one race in the weeks before the event, although some, such as the winners Lammtarra and Shaamit, may arrive at Epsom with no previous run as a three-year-old. The leading trial of recent years has been the Dante Stakes , which has been contested by seven subsequent winners of the Derby in the last 32 years.
The event is named after Diomed, the inaugural winner of Epsom's most famous race, the Epsom Derby. It was established in 1971, although it could be regarded as a continuation of a previous event, the St James Stakes. The Diomed Stakes is now held on the second day of Epsom's two-day Derby Festival meeting, the same day as the Epsom Derby.