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The St. Louis Derby run at Fairmount Park in Collinsville, Illinois held its inaugural race on August 26, 2006. Open to three-year-old thoroughbred horses of either gender, and run at one and one sixteenth miles on the dirt, this ungraded stakes race offers a purse of $250,000, funded privately by local business men.
This race was formerly called the Fairmount Derby and as a Grade III race had a checkered career. Inaugurated in 1926, it ran until 1930 where it was discontinued but it returned in 1967. As of 2008 it appears to be discontinued.
Video St. Louis Derby
Past winners
- 2007 - NOT RUN
- 2006 - Lawyer Ron
- 1996 through 2005 - NOT RUN
- 1995 - Strawberry Wine
- 1994 - Silver Goblin (Millionaire Oklahoma-Bred stakes winner.)
- 1993 - Adhocracy
- 1992 - Count The Time
- 1991 - Discover
- 1989 - Andover Man
- 1988 - Primal (Millionaire stakes winner, including Grade I Donn Handicap.)
- 1987 - Parochial
- 1986 - Goshen Store
- 1985 - Smile (Millionaire and American Champion Sprint Horse, 1986.) (Clever Allemont, winner of the 1985 Rebel Stakes and Southwest Stakes, came in third. In 2008, 26-year-old Clever Allemont was rescued from slaughter.)
- 1984 - Big Pistol (stakes winner of Grade I Haskell Invitational Handicap.)
- 1983 - Hail to Rome
- 1982 - Northern Majesty
- 1981 - Pocket Zipper (stakes winner of Grade I American Derby.)
- 1970 - Robin's Bug (Maryland Horse of the Year, 1970.)
- 1969 - Barely Once (Illinois Horse of the Year, 1970.)
- 1968 - Blarney Kiss
- 1967 - English Muffin
- Discontinued for 37 years
- 1930 - Gallant Knight (stakes winner of Latonia Derby, 2nd in Kentucky Derby.)
- 1929 - Karl Eitel
- 1928 - Misstep (stakes winner of the Arlington Handicap, 2nd in Kentucky Derby.)
- 1927 - Buddy Bauer (Kentucky Derby winner Whiskery finished second.)
- 1926 - Haste (stakes winner of the Withers Stakes.)
Maps St. Louis Derby
External links
- Fairmount Park
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