The total number of entries trained by the O’Brien family stands at 55, with four entries each for Aidan O’Brien’s sons Joseph, who rode Camelot (2012) and Australia (2014) to Investec Derby success, and Donnacha, who landed the 2018 Investec Oaks on Forever Together and commenced his training career at the end of 2019
The 2018 Investec Derby, the premier Classic and Britain’s richest race won by Masar on June 2 at Epsom Downs Racecourse, has been named as the best three-year-old race run anywhere in the world last year
You can borrow the name, but no-one has yet attempted to reconstruct The Derby in its purest form
With prize money of £1,625,000, Saturday’s 238TH running of the Gr1 Investec Derby will be the richest race ever run in Britain
The most famous of all Flat races is run over 2400m at Epsom Downs, with a maximum field of 20 runners, on Saturday, June 3
The 2015 Breakfast With The Stars at Epsom Downs Racecourse had everything – with three of the first four in the betting for Britain’s premier Classic, the Investec Derby, exercising on the course
The Gr1 Investec Derby is ranked the greatest flat race in the world and one of Great Britain’s most traditional days out
The cost to make a second entry to Britain’s richest race was £8,000 and the additions mean there are now 110 horses remaining engaged in the premier Classic race
These horses have been given their initial ticket to the greatest Flat race in the world, and can remain in the Classic with no further financial commitment until the March of their three-year-old careers
The Aidan O’Brien-trained Ruler Of The World lived up to his name when landing an eventful Investec Derby by a length and a half.
Ironically, it was a colt which provided Alan with a first Gr1 success, this being Alec and Gillian Foster’s homebred Cereus, who landed the 2001 Gold Cup at Hollywoodbets Greyville, his victory completing a momentous double on the day, with the Gr2 Golden Slipper having gone the way of juvenile filly Tatler, a great-great-great grandaughter of Sun Lass!
JP van der Merwe is not the only guilty party in the matter. In simple terms, he is the only rider to have exercised the NHA’s offer of an Acknowledgement Of Guilt and moved on with his life
Andrew Fortune made it three winners on the Family Day public holiday as Tenango breezed home to win the Gr3 feature
The son of Master Of My Fate will likely side-step stablemate Eight On Eighteen in the Daily News and go via the Greyville 1900 and Cup Trial into the big one on 5 July
