All news on the topic: The Derby

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Royal fan lays hand on Queen Camilla at Cheltenham as she asks for selfie
A video clip circulating on social media shows a royal fan laying her hand on Queen Camilla's arm as she asks for a selfie at the Cheltenham Festival on Style Wednesday
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Football agent Kia Joorabchian signs first jockey to ambitious Amo Racing
Classic winner David Egan will be the third jockey to ride exclusively for football agent Kia Joorabchian’s operation after splits with Rossa Ryan and Kevin Stott
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Ryan Moore credits Aidan O’Brien and Coolmore after scooping fourth world title
The star jockey matched Frankie Dettori by collecting the Longines World’s Best Jockey Award in Hong Kong for the fourth time since its inception
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Lionel Messi transfer demand makes perfect sense as David Beckham sent message
Lionel Messi issued a transfer demand to Inter Miami co-owner David Beckham, who has now been left with little but no choice to try and sign the midfielder
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Jockey nephew of riding great Pat Eddery hit with six-month ban for cocaine use
George Eddery 24, was suspended for six months by a disciplinary panel after testing positive for the banned substance when riding at Lingfield in June
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Derby hero Desert Crown put down after failing to recover from injury
The colt, who won the Epsom Classic in 2022 but had raced only once since, fractured a fetlock during training on the Newmarket gallops in August
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The horses Frankie Dettori is riding at Ascot as he ends British racing career
After more than 37 years Frankie Dettori will be riding in Britain for the final time at Ascot on Saturday before he heads overseas to base himself in California
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Frankie Dettori makes bombshell racing retirement U-turn in surprise career move
The superstar jockey plans to make California his new home after riding for the final time in Britain on Qipco British Champions Day at Ascot this month
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Epsom Derby animal rights protestor given suspended priosn sentence
Ben Newman ran onto the racecourse shortly after the field for the Epsom Derby had left the starting stalls, in defiance of a High Court injunction granted to the Jockey Club before the race
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Arc runner-up Westover retired after suffering career-ending injury
The Ralph Beckett trained four-year-old, who won more than £3.3 million in prize-money, will be retired to stud after his final run at Longchamp on Sunday
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Derby winner Edward Hide dead at 86 as tributes paid to "genius" jockey
Edward Hide, one of the most successful jockeys of the 60s and 70s, rode the winners of six British Classics with the highlight his success on Morston in the 1973 Derby
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Frankie Dettori has pick of St Leger rides after Arrest states case at Newbury
Frankie Dettori has two leading candidates for the St Leger at Doncaster. He will trial Gregory at York next week after Arrest passed his in the BetVictor Geoffrey Freer Stakes
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Godolphin Derby hero Adayar who earned £2million retired to stud
Adayar, who the Derby in 2021, went on to become the first horse since Galileo to win the Epsom Classic and King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes in the same season
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King George 2023 tips: Horse-by-horse guide with odds and 1-2-3 prediction
In what is being billed as the Flat race of the season, Derby winner Auguste Rodin heads an all-star line-up for the £1.25 million King George VI and Queen Elizabeth QIPCO Stakes at Ascot
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Desert Crown ruled out of clash of the Derby winners at Ascot by leg infection
Desert Crown, winner of the 2022 Derby, was expected to face off against this year's Epsom Classic hero Auguste Rodin at Ascot but misses the race
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Jockey who had trial with Tottenham rides one of the favourites in £1.25m race
Kevin Stott, who rides Royal Ascot winner King Of Steel in the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth QIPCO Stakes, was scouted by Spurs when he was a schoolboy
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Auguste Rodin leads Aidan O'Brien challenge for the King George at Ascot
The Derby winner could be joined by four stablemates in the midsummer clash at Ascot which looks like becoming one of the races of the season
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New role created in Pat Smullen's name to lead cancer treatment effort
The nine-time Irish champion Pat Smullen helped raise millions before he passed away in 2020 at the age of 43
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Animal rights activist who invaded course during the Derby spared jail
Ben Newman, 32, was sentenced to 18 weeks imprisonment, suspended for two years, and fined after pleading guilty to causing public nuisance
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BHA declines invitation to TV debate with animal rights group
Supporters of Animal Rising caused disruption at the Grand National in April and have continued to campaign against horse racing at other high profile fixtures
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Football fans on 'nightmare' journeys to London for cup final amid train strikes
More than 150 official supporters’ coaches began leaving Manchester at 7am before joining thousands of other vehicles, including minibuses and cars, on the 200-mile trip to North West London
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Protestor detained by police at Epsom Derby after running onto racecourse
The man was quickly tackled and dragged off the track by police and security as bystanders heckled ‘get him off the track!’
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Epsom Derby result and finishing order including Frankie Dettori place
Frankie Dettori had gone into his last ever Derby as favourite on Arrest but finished in 10th as thousands flocked to the historic racecourse for the race
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19 people arrested in connection with plans to disrupt Epsom Derby
Surrey Police confirmed the arrests were made on Saturday morning after animal rights activists confirmed their plans to halt the historic race
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Newsboy’s horseracing tips for Derby day on Saturday and six other meetings
Newsboy predicts that Military Order will have too many guns for his opponents in the Derby and is confident enough to have made the colt his Nap