Trainer: John Oxx

Owner: H.H Aga Khan

Time: 2:36.75

Sinndar is the first horse to capture the Derby, Irish Derby and Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe in the same season.

Trainer: H R A Cecil

Owner: The Thoroughbred Corporation

Time: 2:37.43

Oath was injured in his next race (King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes) and never ran again.

Trainer: L M Cumani

Owner: Sheik Mohammed Obaid Al- Maktoum

Time: 2:33.88

The 1000 Guineas winner Cape Verdi is the most recent filly to run, finishing ninth as the 11/4 favourite. A supplementary stage is introduced, allowing connections to enter for the Derby at the five-day stage at a cost of £75,000.

Trainer: John Gosden

Owner: Mr L Knights

Time: 2:35.77

Benny the Dip was retired to stud at the end of his three-year-old season. He died after sustaining an injury in a paddock accident in 2003.

Trainer: William Haggas

Owner: K. Abdullah Dasman

Time: 2:35.05

Alex Greaves is the first woman to ride in the race, finishing last to Shaamit on 500/1 outsider Portuguese Lil. Shaamit’s handler William Haggas is the only current trainer with a 100 per cent record in The Derby.

Trainer: Saeed bin Suroor

Owner: Saeed Maktoum Al-Maktoum

Time: 2:32.31

Lammtarra becomes the first horse to win the Derby on his seasonal return since Grand Parade in 1919 and sets a record time of 2m 32.31s, beating Mahmoud’s 2m 33.8s which was hand-timed in 1936. The race is switched permanently from Wednesday to Saturday. Vodafone takes over the sponsorship and remains the backer up to 2008.

Trainer: John Dunlop

Owner: Sheik H Al-Maktoum

Time: 2:34.16

At the age of 58, Lester Piggott has his last Derby mount on fifthplaced 33/1 shot Khamaseen.

Trainer: Henry Cecil

Owner: Mr K. Abdulla

Time: 2:34.51

In a career that lasted just over three months in the spring and summer of 1993 Commander in Chief won five of his six races, most notably the Derby at Epsom and the Irish Derby at the Curragh. He was the first Derby winner since Morston in 1973 not to have raced as a two-year-old.

Trainer: Peter Chapple-Hyam

Owner: Mr S H Craig

Time: 2:36.19

Dr Devious is the first horse to win the Derby after contesting the Kentucky Derby, in which he had finished seventh to Lil E Tee.

Trainer: Paul Cole

Owner: Mr F Salman

Time: 2:34:00

In a period of seven weeks Generous won the Derby by five lengths, the Irish Derby by three lengths and the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes by a record seven lengths.

Trainer: Roger Charlton

Owner: Mr K Abdulla

Time: 2:37.26

Quest for Fame was later trained in the United States where he won the San Luis Obispo Handicap and the Hollywood Invitational Turf Handicap in 1992. He was the first Epsom Derby winner to win a major race as a five-year-old since St. Gatien in 1886.

Trainer: Dick Hern

Owner: Sheik H Al-Maktoum

Time: 2:34.90

Terimon, second to Nashwan at 500/1, is the longest-priced horse placed in any Classic.

Trainer: Luca Cumani

Owner: H H Aga Khan

Time: 2:33.84

Kahyasi won the first five races of his seven-race career, including the Epsom Derby and the Irish Derby as a three-year-old.

Trainer: Henry Cecil

Owner: Mr L Freedman

Time: 2:33.90

Jockey Steve Cauthen was British Champion Jockey three times, and won English classic races ten times, including the 2,000 Guineas, the Epsom Derby twice, and the St. Leger Stakes three times.

Trainer: Micheal Stoute

Owner: H H Aga Khan

Time: 00:00:00

Shahrastani holds off the strong late challenge of Dancing Brave in a memorable finish. Bold Arrangement becomes the first horse to contest both the Kentucky Derby and Derby, finishing second at Churchill Downs to Ferdinand and 14th at Epsom.

Trainer: Henry Cecil

Owner: Lord Howard de Walden

Time: 2:36.23

Steve Cauthen became the first U. S. jockey in the last 65 years to win the Epsom Derby when he rode Slip Anchor to an easy victory.

Trainer: David O'Brien

Owner: Luigi Miglietti

Time: 2:39.12

The first commercial Derby sponsorship is from Ever Ready. The first prize, won by Secreto, is £227,680 (compared with £165,080 the previous year).

Trainer: Geoff Wragg

Owner: Mr E B Moller

Time: 2:49.07

Teenoso is Lester Piggott’s ninth and last winner, three more than his nearest pursuers in the most successful riders’ table, Jem Robinson and Steve Donoghue, achieved. Geoff Wragg, son of Derby winning jockey and trainer Harry Wragg, trains Teenoso.

Trainer: Vincent O'Brien

Owner: Robert Sangster

Time: 2:34.27

Golden Fleece is trainer Vincent O’Brien’s sixth and final winner.

Trainer: Micheal Stoute

Owner: H H Aga Khan

Time: 2:44.21

Shergar sets a record winning distance of 10 lengths under 19-year-old Derby debutant Walter Swinburn.

Trainer: Dick Hern

Owner: Mrs A Plesch

Time: 2:34.77

Nikoli, eighth behind Henbit at 4/1, becomes a record eighth consecutive losing favourite.

Trainer: Dick Hern

Owner: Sir Micheal Sobell

Time: 2:36.59

The first of Willie Carson's four Derby victories came aboard in the 200th running of
the Classic in 1979 with Troy, considered one of the top three horses he ever rode. The seven length victory was at the time a post-war record and has since only been bettered by Shergar's ten length success in 1982 and equalled by Slip Anchor in the mid-1980's.

Trainer: John Dunlop

Owner: Lord Halifax

Time: 2:35.30

Shirley Heights is the last Epsom Derby winner to be both the son of a previous winner (Mill Reef, 1971), and the sire of a subsequent winner (Slip Anchor, 1985).

Trainer: Vincent O'Brien

Owner: Robert Sangster

Time: 2:36.44

The Minstrel prevails in a thrilling finish from Hot Grove, handing a fifth success to trainer Vincent O’Brien and an eighth to jockey Lester Piggott. He is the second of two Derby winners bred in Canada following on from Nijinsky (1970).

Trainer: Maurice Zilber

Owner: Mr N B Hunt

Time: 2:35.69

Empery, trained by Maurice Zilber in France, becomes Lester Piggott’s seventh Derby winner.

Trainer: Peter Walwyn

Owner: Dr C Vittadini

Time: 2:35.35

Nobiliary, second to Grundy, is the most recent of five fillies to be placed.

Trainer: Peter Nelson

Owner: Mrs Neil F Phillips

Time: 2:35.04

Snow Knight won the the Epsom Derby, then the following year earned an Eclipse Award as the American Champion Male Turf Horse. At stud he sired Awaasif, the dam of Snow Bride, winner of the 1989 Epsom Oaks and the dam of Lammtarra, winner of the 1995 Epsom Derby.

Trainer: Arthur Budgett

Owner: Arthur Budgett

Time: 2:35.92

Morston won the 1973 Epsom Derby on his second racecourse appearance. He was then injured, and retired undefeated.

Trainer: Vincent O'Brien

Owner: Mr J W Galbreath

Time: 2:36.09

Perhaps Robert's most famous victory was beating Brigadier Gerard in the inaugural running of the Benson and Hedges Gold Cup.

Trainer: Ian Balding

Owner: Mr P Mellon

Time: 2:37.14

Mill Reef was ranked as number four in a list of the Top 100 European Racehorses of the 20th Century, compiled by Racing Post.

Trainer: Vincent O'Brien

Owner: Mr C W Engelhard

Time: 2:34.68

Nijinsky became the 15th horse to gain the Triple Crown after winning the Derby and 2000 Guineas with success in the St Leger at Doncaster.

Trainer: Arthur Budgett

Owner: Arthur Budgett

Time: 2:40.30

Blakeney was one of the few winners of the race to campaign successfully at four. He later had a successful stud career.

Trainer: Vincent O'Brien

Owner: Raymond R Guest

Time: 2:38.73

Sir Ivor won major races in four countries: the National Stakes in Ireland, the Grand Criterium in France, the 2000 Guineas and the Epsom Derby in England and the Washington, D.C. International in the United States. He was retired to stud at the end of the 1968 season and became a successful stallion.

Trainer: Noel Murless

Owner: Jim Joel

Time: 2:38.36

After being rated the best English-trained two-year-old of 1966, Royal Palace won the first two legs of the Triple Crown, the 2000 Guineas and the Epsom Derby in 1967. He returned for an unbeaten four-year-old season in 1968 when he won four races which are now Group One events.

Trainer: Gordon Smyth

Owner: Lady Zia Wernher

Time: 2:37.63

Arthur Edward "Scobie" Breasley was Champion Jockey in 1957 and continuously from 1961-63.

Trainer: Etienne Pollet

Owner: Jean Ternynck

Time: 2:38.41

Sea-Bird, widely considered the greatest Derby winner, beats Meadow Court and I Say in a canter. This is the year Epsom Downs Racecourse installed a watering system.

Trainer: Mick Rogers

Owner: John Ismay

Time: 2:41.98

Santa Claus won the Irish 2,000 Guineas, the Epsom Derby and the Irish Derby. His performances earned him the title of British Horse of the Year.

Trainer: François Mathet

Owner: François Dupré

Time: 2:39.4

Relko's Derby win was overshadowed for some time because of the revelation by the Daily Express that he had failed a drugs test. The incident took place in the context of a series of investigations into the "doping" of horses in British races. It was not until October that the Jockey Club confirmed Relko as the winner, stating that the substances detected could not be positively identified and therefore could not be proved to have affected the result. At the end of June, Relko was scheduled to run in the Irish Derby and made 11/8 favourite, but was withdrawn from the race minutes before the start, after appearing to be lame, leading to further suspicions of foul play.

Trainer: Vincent O'Brien

Owner: Raymond R Guest

Time: 2:37.6

Larkspur, who kept his feet while seven rivals fell on the descent to Tattenham Corner, provides the first of six Derby winners for perhaps the greatest trainer ever, Vincent O’Brien, who also sent out Sir Ivor (1968), Nijinsky (1970), Roberto (1972), The Minstrel (1977) and Golden Fleece (1982) to victory.

Trainer: Harry Wragg

Owner: Etti Plesch

Time: 2:36.4

In a racing career that lasted from 1960 to 1961 Psidium ran eleven times and won twice. He is best known for his win, as a 66/1 outsider in the 1961 Epsom Derby. He later became a successful stallion.

Trainer: Noel Murless

Owner: Sir Victor Sassoon

Time: 2:35.8

St Paddy is the latest of five Derby winners to have the prefix St.

Trainer: Cecil Boyd-Rochfort

Owner: Sir Humphrey de Trafford

Time: 2:36.0

Parthia stood as a stallion in England until he was exported to Japan in 1968. The most notable of his European offspring was the filly Sleeping Partner who won the Epsom Oaks in 1969.

Trainer: Mick Rogers

Owner: Sir Victor Sassoon

Time: 2:41.2

In a brief career of five races, Hard Ridden also won the Irish 2000 Guineas at the Curragh in 1958.

Trainer: Noel Murless

Owner: Sir Victor Sassoon

Time: 2:35.4

Crepello only had five starts but was undefeated in his last three, all of which are now Group One races.

Trainer: Alec Head

Owner: Pierre Wertheimer

Time: 2:36.4

In their book "A Century of Champions", John Randall and Tony Morris rated Lavandin a “poor” Derby winner.

Trainer: François Mathet

Owner: Suzy Volterra

Time: 2:39.8

Phil Drake ran five times and won three races, becoming the fifth and last horse to win both the Epsom Derby and the Grand Prix de Paris.

Trainer: Joseph Lawson

Owner: Robert Sterling Clark

Time: 2:35.8

After winning only once from his first nine races, he demonstrated much improved form in the summer of 1954, becoming the first American colt to win the race in seventy-three years.

Trainer: Norman Bertie

Owner: Sir Victor Sassoon

Time: 2:35.6

Pinza was the best British colt of his generation in 1953, and went on to win the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes. He was then retired to stud, where he had little success.

Trainer: Marcus Marsh

Owner: HH Aga Khan III

Time: 2:36.4

Tulyar also won the St. Leger Stakes, the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes, the Ormonde Stakes and the Eclipse Stakes setting a record for a single season's earnings in England.

Trainer: Willie Stephenson

Owner: Joseph McGrath

Time: 2:39.4

Arctic Prince won two races including the Derby and was retired after breaking down at Ascot in July of the same year.

Trainer: Charles Semblat

Owner(s): Marcel Boussac

Time: 2:36.8

Galcador never raced after his win at Epsom and was retired to stud where he made no impact as a sire of winners.

Trainer: George Colling

Owner(s): Marion Glenister

Time: 2:42

Nimbus was sired by Nearco, one of the most important sires of the 20th century.

Trainer: Richard Carver

Owner(s): HH Aga Khan III / Volterra

Time: 2:40

In the summer of 1948 My Love became the third French-trained horse to win the Epsom Derby and the fifth horse to win both the Derby and the Grand Prix de Paris.

Trainer: Percy Carter

Owner(s): Baron Geoffroy de Waldner

Time: 2:38.4

Pearl Diver became the first French-trained horse to win the Epsom Derby since Durbar in 1914.

Trainer: Dick Perryman

Owner(s): John E. Ferguson

Time: 2:44.6

Airborne was the most recent of four greys to have won the Epsom Classic.

Trainer: Matthew Peacock

Owner(s): Sir Eric Ohlson

Time: 2:26.6

Dante started favourite at odds of 100/30 for the Derby Stakes, which was run at Newmarket despite the recent end of the war.

Trainer: Jack Jarvis

Owner(s): 6th Earl of Rosebery

Time: 2:31

Run as the "New Derby", a wartime substitute for the Epsom Derby run at Newmarket.

Trainer: Walter Nightingall

Owner(s): Dorothy Paget

Time: 2:30.4

Run as the “New Derby”, a substitute race for the Epsom Derby run on the July Course at Newmarket.

Trainer: Walter Earl

Owner(s): 17th Earl of Derby

Time: 2:29.6

Watling Street's winning time equaled the wartime Derby record, but was received with little enthusiasm by the spectators who had been anticipating a Royal victory.

Trainer: Fred Darling

Owner(s): C. Macdonald-Buchanan

Time: 2:32

The bay colt Owen Tudor was sired by Hyperion out of the French-bred mare Mary Tudor II.

Trainer: Fred Darling

Owner(s): Fred Darling

Time: 2:30.8

Pont l’Eveque was a very late foal, born at the end of the breeding season on 25 May, making him probably the youngest horse to win the Derby.

Trainer: Jack Jarvis

Owner(s): 6th Earl of Rosebery

Time: 2:36.8

While Blue Peter was clearly the best three-year-old in Britain in 1939, the onset of World War II ended his chance to win the Triple Crown as the St. Leger Stakes was cancelled.

Trainer: Fred Darling

Owner(s): Peter Beatty

Time: 2:39.2

Making just the second start of his career and ridden by jockey Charlie Elliott, Bois Roussel scored an upset victory at odds of 20/1.

Trainer: Fred Butters

Owner(s): Lettice Mary Miller

Time: 2:37.6

Mid-Day Sun was the first winner of the Derby to be owned by a woman.

Trainer: Frank Butters

Owner(s): HH Aga Khan III

Time: 2:36.0

Mahmoud was a light-coloured grey horse of distinctly Arab appearance, standing just under 15.3 hands high, and bred in France by his owner the Aga Khan.

Trainer: Frank Butters

Owner(s): HH Aga Khan III

Time: 2:36.0

The leading British two-year-old of 1934, Bahram went on to take the Triple Crown in 1935 by winning the 2000 Guineas Stakes, Epsom Derby and St. Leger Stakes.

Trainer: Marcus Marsh

Owner(s): Maharaja of Rajpipla

Time: 2:34.0

In their book "A Century of Champions", John Randall and Tony Morris rated Windsor Lad the nineteenth best horse of the 20th Century and the sixth best Derby winner, behind Sea Bird, Hyperion, Mill Reef, Nijinsky and Shergar.

Trainer: George Lambton

Owner(s): Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby

Time: 2:34.0

Hyperion was the most successful British-bred sire of the 20th century and six times champion sire of Great Britain between 1940 and 1954.

Trainer: Tom Walls

Owner(s): Tom Walls

Time: 2:43.2

April the Fifth was a very popular winner and the first Epsom-trained horse to win the Derby since Amato in 1838.

Trainer: Fred Darling

Owner(s): Arthur Dewar

Time: 2:36.0

In their book "A Century of Champions", John Randall and Tony Morris rated Cameronian as an "average" Derby winner.

Trainer: Dick Dawson

Owner(s): HH Aga Khan III

Time: 2:38.2

After the Derby, Blenheim was being prepared or a run in the Eclipse Stakes when he sustained a tendon injury. He did not recover sufficiently to resume racing and was retired to stud.

Trainer: Dick Dawson

Owner(s): William Barnett

Time: 2:36.4

Trigo was not considered a serious contender for the Derby and he started at odds of 33/1 in a field of twenty-six runners.

Trainer: Oswald Bell

Owner(s): Hugo Cunliffe-Owen

Time: 2:34.8

On unusually hard ground at Epsom, Felstead started a 33/1 outsider in front of a huge and enthusiastic crowd which included the King and Queen.

Trainer: John E. Watts

Owner(s): Frank Curzon

Time: 2:34.4

Partly because of the death of his owner, Call Boy never ran again after his win at Epsom.

Trainer: Fred Darling

Owner(s): 1st Baron Woolavington

Time: 2:47.8

Coronach's regular jockey was Joe Childs, whose preferred style of holding up horses for a late run was at odds with Coronach’s front running style. After the Derby he was reported to have said that “the bastard ran away with me!”

Trainer: Fred Darling

Owner(s): Henry E. Morriss

Time: 2:40.6

Although Manna had not been favourite, the win was reported to be enthusiastically received, largely because of the popularity of jockey Donoghue, who was winning the race for the sixth time.

Trainer: George Lambton

Owner(s): 17th Earl of Derby

Time: 2:46.6

Sansovino was one of sixteen Classic winners bred by his owner Lord Derby, who named the colt after the sixteenth-century Italian architect Jacopo Sansovino.

Trainer: Basil Jarvis

Owner(s): Ben Irish

Time: 2:38.0

The win gave Donoghue a "hat-trick" of Derby wins, following Humorist in 1921 and Captain Cuttle in 1922.

Trainer: Fred Darling

Owner(s): 1st Baron Woolavington

Time: 2:34.6

The name "Captain Cuttle" was taken from a character in Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens, Captain Edward Cuttle.

Trainer: Charles Morton

Owner(s): Jack Barnato Joel

Time: 2:36.2

Less than three weeks after the Derby, Humorist died in his stable from a lung haemorrhage caused by a tubercular condition.

Trainer: Peter Gilpin

Owner(s): Giles Loder

Time: 2:34.8

In their book "A Century of Champions", John Randall and Tony Morris rated Spion Kop a “poor” Derby winner. More specifically, they rated him equal with Aboyeur as one of the two worst colts to have won the race in the 20th Century.

Trainer: Frank Barling

Owner(s): 1st Baron Glanely

Time: 2:35.8

Grand Parade was the first black horse for 106 years to win the Epsom Derby.

Trainer: Alec Taylor, Jr.

Owner(s): Lady James Douglas

Time: 2:33.2

Gainsborough won the English Triple Crown in 1918 and became a superior sire.

Trainer: Alec Taylor, Jr.

Owner(s): Alfred Cox

Time: 2:40.6

Wartime restrictions caused the race to take place at Newmarket on 31 July, two months later than the customary date. The race carried prize money of only £2,050 and attracted only a handful of spectators on a dull and rainy day.

Trainer: Dick Dawson

Owner(s): Sir Edward Hulton

Time: 2:36.6

As a three-year-old in 1916 Fifinella won the Derby and the Oaks, both of which were run at Newmarket. She was the sixth and most recent filly to win the Derby.

Trainer: Charles Peck

Owner(s): Solomon Joel

Time: 2:32.6

Pommern won the 2000 Guineas at Newmarket and the wartime substitutes for the Epsom Derby and the St. Leger Stakes to win a version of the English Triple Crown.

Trainer: Tom Murphy

Owner(s): Herman Duryea

Time: 2:38.4

Durbar started at 20/1 against thirty opponents, one of the largest fields ever assembled for the race.

Trainer: Tom Lewis

Owner(s): Alan Cunliffe

Time: 2:37.6

Aboyeur won at record odds of 100/1. He was awarded the race on the disqualification of Craganour after a rough and controversial race

Trainer: Dawson Waugh

Owner(s): Walter Raphael

Time: 2:38.8

Tagalie is one of only six fillies to win the Epsom Derby, and was also the second of only four greys to have won the race.

Trainer: Charles Morton

Owner(s): Jack Barnato Joel

Time: 2:36.8

Sunstar, despite widespread rumours about his fitness, started the 13/8 favourite in a field of twenty-six runners and won by two lengths.