St. Louis Derby

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.

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.)

External links

• Fairmount Park