Delacroix and Ruling Court head the runners as a field of 19 is set to contest the Derby at Epsom on Saturday.

Epsom racecourse and the sponsor Betfred are to be saluted on their decision to run this year's Derby 'In Honour of His Highness Aga Khan IV'. No family has been a more constant competitor in the ...

Shergar had won the 1981 Derby by a record 10 lengths and followed that triumph with successes in the Irish Derby and the King George. The colt had earned the right to be regarded as one of the ...

Pride Of Arras and Damysus, the Dante Stakes winner and runner-up, appeal most of those towards the head of the betting, but ...

PUNTERS going to Saturday’s Epsom Derby have been threatened with £100 on-the-spot fines. A new council order issued in time ...

Shergar won other big races that year, including the Irish Derby, and then was retired at the end of 1981. He was set for a life as a stud horse, with every expectation that he would sire a ...

When Sinndar and Johnny Murtagh wore down Sakhee in the fast-paced Derby of 2000, he became the first Irish-trained winner in ...

The most famous and valuable racehorse in the world, Shergar had won the 1981 Epsom Derby by ten lengths ... racing associates and several Irish Ministers. This process is referred to as ...

It’s Shergar first, and the rest are nowhere,” was the line my grandfather Michael O’Hehir coined as he commentated on that 1981 Irish Derby. RTE’s commentary box was at the top of the ...

Shergar in the packed winner’s enclosure at Epsom (PA) With Swinburn suspended he was ridden by Lester Piggott to win the Irish Derby by four lengths. But the young rider was back in the saddle ...