The St. Louis Derby run at Fairmount Park Racetrack in Collinsville, Illinois held its inaugural race on August 26, 2006. Open to three-year-old thoroughbred

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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. Inaugurated in 1926, the race was called the Fairmount Derby. It ran until 1930 after which it did not return until 1967 and for a time achieved Grade III status. It was last run in 2006. Following this hiatus, it was reintroduced in 2021 as the FanDuel Saint Louis Derby with a $250,000 prize pool and has been run yearly in the month of August since.

Past winners

* 2022 - Rattle N Roll * 2021 - Flash of Mischief * 2007 through 2020 - NOT RUN * 2006 -

Lawyer Ron Lawyer Ron (March 1, 2003 – July 11, 2009) was an American thoroughbred race horse. Background Lawyer Ron was bred and owned by James T. Hines, Jr., an entrepreneur who started his first companyPremium Allied Tool in Owensboro, Kentucky, in 19 ...

* 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 The American Champion Sprint Horse award is an American Thoroughbred horse racing honor. Created in 1947, in 1971 it became part of the Eclipse Awards program and is awarded annually to the top horse in sprint races (usually those run at a distance ...

, 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 -

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(stakes winner of

Latonia Derby The Latonia Derby was an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually from 1883 through 1937 at Latonia Race Track in Latonia, Kentucky. Open to three-year-old horses, for its first 52 years the Latonia Derby was contested at a mile and a half t ...

, 2nd in

Kentucky Derby The Kentucky Derby is a horse race held annually in Louisville, Kentucky, United States, almost always on the first Saturday in May, capping the two-week-long Kentucky Derby Festival. The competition is a Grade I stakes race for three-year ...

.) * 1929 - Karl Eitel * 1928 - Misstep (stakes winner of the Arlington Handicap, 2nd in

.) * 1927 - Buddy Bauer (

winner

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finished second.) * 1926 - Haste (stakes winner of the Withers Stakes.)

External links

Fairmount Park
Horse races in the United States Flat horse races for three-year-olds