Timeline
- 1805: One of the horses was brought down by a spectator.
- 1825: Middleton didn't start before or after winning the Derby.
- 1838: Amato never raced before or after winning the Derby.
- 1844: The original winner Running Rein was disqualified as he was actually an ineligible four-year-old horse named Maccabeus.
- 1881: Iroquois became the first American-bred to win a leg of the British triple crown.
- 1884: The race finished with a dead-heat between Harvester and St. Gatien.
- 1887: Merry Hampton is the most recent horse to win the Derby with no previous victories.
- 1894: The winner was owned by the Prime Minister at the time, the 5th Earl of Rosebery.
- 1901: The first year in which a mechanical starting gate was used.
- 1909: Minoru was the first Derby winner owned by a reigning monarch, King Edward VII, who had previously won twice as Prince of Wales.
- 1913: The 6/4 favourite Craganour, owned by Charles B. Ismay, brother of J. Bruce Ismay of the Titanic, was controversially disqualified, and the race was awarded to the 100/1 outsider Aboyeur. Suffragette Emily Davison was struck by King George V's horse, Anmer, she died three days later.
- 1916: Fifinella, who also won the Oaks, is the most recent (as of 2012) of six fillies to win the race. The previous five were Eleanor (1801), Blink Bonny (1857), Shotover (1882), Signorinetta (1908), Tagalie (1912).
- 1921: The winner Humorist died two weeks after the race.
- 1927: The first Derby to be broadcast by the BBC.
- 1932: April the Fifth is the most recent winner trained at Epsom.
- 1946: Airborne is the most recent (as of 2012) of four grey horses to win the Derby.
- 1953: Pinza was the first winner in the race for the jockey Sir Gordon Richards, after 27 unsuccessful attempts.
- 1960: Although there had been an experimental TV transmission of the race in the early 1930s, regular television coverage of the Derby began this year, initially on both BBC and ITV.
- 1989: The runner-up Terimon is the longest-priced horse to finish placed in the Derby, at odds of 500/1.
- 1996: Alex Greaves became the first lady jockey to ride in the race. She finished last of the 20 runners on the filly Portuguese Lil.
- 1998: The most recent (as of 2012) filly to take part, the 1,000 Guineas winner Cape Verdi, started as 11/4 favourite but could only finish ninth.
- 2006: Martin Dwyer's winning ride on Sir Percy subsequently won the Lester Award for "Flat Ride of the Year".
- 2007: Authorized provided jockey Frankie Dettori with his first winner in the Derby after 14 previous attempts.
- 2008: Jim Bolger, the trainer of the winner New Approach, had left the horse entered for the race "by mistake", having not initially intended to run.
- 2009: Sea The Stars became the second Epsom Derby winner by the Dam Urban Sea only ever done once before.
- 2010: Workforce broke the Epsom track record winning in the time 2m 31.33s previously held by Lammtarra who set it in 1995 at 2m 32.31s.
- 2011: Pour Moi Jockey Mickael Barzalona celebrated before the finishline winning by just a head.
- 2012: Hayley Turner became the second lady jockey to ride in the race on Cavaleiro. Only nine horses went to post, lowest number since 1907. Aidan O'Brien and his 19-year-old son Joseph became the first father-son/trainer-jockey combination to win the race.
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