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OWNER · 225th BY BIG-RACE WINS

17th Earl of Derby

11 wins in the world's richest races between 1910 and 1944, across 3 different races. The biggest is the Epsom Derby, worth £1,500,000.

The owner is the one name on a winner's row the prize actually belongs to. Everybody else in the yard takes a percentage of it, set by the country the race is run in.

BIG-RACE WINS 11
BIGGEST WIN £1.5m
RACES WON 3
FIRST AND LAST 1910 to 1944
COUNTRIES 1

When the wins came

11 wins from 1910 to 1944, by decade

Best decade: the 1920s, 4 wins

A list of winners sorted by date reads as one long run. Drawn, it has a shape: 4 of these 11 came in the 1920s alone.

The races 17th Earl of Derby keeps winning

By number of wins

3 won more than once

St Leger Stakes 6 Epsom Derby 3 2000 Guineas Stakes 2

Every big race 17th Earl of Derby has won

11 winners, newest first

3 different races

Year Race Horse Jockey Trainer Country Worth
1944 2000 Guineas Stakes Garden Path ‡ Harry Wragg Walter Earl Great Britain £525,000
1943 St Leger Stakes Herringbone Harry Wragg Walter Earl Great Britain £700,000
1942 Epsom Derby Watling Street Harry Wragg Walter Earl Great Britain £1,500,000£1.5m
1933 Epsom Derby Hyperion Tommy Weston George Lambton Great Britain £1,500,000£1.5m
1933 St Leger Stakes Hyperion Tommy Weston George Lambton Great Britain £700,000
1928 St Leger Stakes Fairway Tommy Weston Frank Butters Great Britain £700,000
1926 2000 Guineas Stakes Colorado Tommy Weston George Lambton Great Britain £525,000
1924 Epsom Derby Sansovino Tommy Weston George Lambton Great Britain £1,500,000£1.5m
1923 St Leger Stakes Tranquil Tommy Weston Charles Morton Great Britain £700,000
1919 St Leger Stakes Keysoe Brownie Carslake George Lambton Great Britain £700,000
1910 St Leger Stakes Swynford Frank Wootton George Lambton Great Britain £700,000

The figure on each row is what that race puts up today, which is the number that says how big a day it was.

What the owner takes out of a purse

The published split in the countries 17th Earl of Derby wins in

11 of 11 wins covered

Every racing authority that publishes a rule publishes it as a split of the race fund rather than of a winner's cheque, so these are figures about the races below and not about one person's bank account.

Country Wins there Code Owner's share Purse of those races Owners' share of it
Great Britain 11 Flat 80% / 78.25% £9,750,000£9.8m £7,800,000£7.8m

British racing splits every pound of prize money five ways, and the two codes do not split it the same way. The owner's share is the largest single line in every country that publishes one, and it is the line that moves when a country changes its rules: British jump racing gives its riders 1.75 points more of every purse than the Flat does, and those points come out of the owner's share rather than anybody else's.

The owners either side

Ranked 225th of 288 on big-race wins

# Owner Wins Races Span Biggest win
205 Virginia Kraft Payson 12 10 1984 to 2008 £854,701
206 Buckram Oak Farm 12 11 1980 to 2006 £1,503,759£1.5m
207 Martin S. Schwartz 12 10 2006 to 2017 £1,503,759£1.5m
208 Caro / Augustin-Normand 12 9 2014 to 2019 £1,282,051£1.3m
209 Etti Plesch 12 11 1961 to 1992 £1,500,000£1.5m
210 Gestüt Wittekindshof 12 6 1996 to 2016 £555,556
211 Barry K. Schwartz 12 11 1980 to 2018 £751,880
212 William Hendrie 12 4 1890 to 1903 £536,800
213 Hickory Tree Stable 12 11 1970 to 1987 £563,910
214 Richard C. Strauss 12 7 1986 to 2011 £1,503,759£1.5m
215 Ecurie Skymarc Farm 12 11 1989 to 2008 £854,701
216 Pin Oak Stable 12 11 1991 to 2011 £563,910
217 Jeff Smith 12 10 1984 to 2014 £650,000
218 Fahd Salman 12 11 1986 to 1999 £512,821
219 SARL Darpat France 12 11 2009 to 2019 £427,350
220 Peter Goulandris 12 12 1970 to 1986 £427,350
221 Ecurie J. L. Bouchard 12 11 1999 to 2014 £111,111
222 Rashid Bin Mohammed 12 8 1999 to 2007 £201,700
223 Lady O'Reilly 12 11 1991 to 2010 £111,111
224 Shadwell Racing 11 10 1986 to 2022 £5,291,005£5.3m
226 Suzy Volterra 11 10 1955 to 1989 £4,273,504£4.3m
227 Lazy F Ranch 11 8 1967 to 1998 £939,850
228 El Peco Ranch 11 11 1955 to 1978 £3,759,399£3.8m
229 G. Watts Humphrey Jr 11 10 1982 to 2019 £1,315,789£1.3m
230 The Thoroughbred Corporation 11 8 1997 to 2002 £751,880
231 e Five Racing Thoroughbreds 11 9 2016 to 2025 £939,850
232 Pam & Martin Wygod 11 10 1995 to 2015 £1,503,759£1.5m
233 Christopher Chenery 11 11 1950 to 1958 £1,503,759£1.5m
234 Michael Lund Petersen 11 9 2016 to 2024 £939,850
235 Karl Watson, Michael E. Pegram & Paul Weitman 11 9 2011 to 2024 £1,503,759£1.5m
236 Cynthia Phipps 11 11 1975 to 1996 £563,910
237 Sean Mulryan 11 8 2004 to 2007 £726,496
238 Zahra Aga Khan 11 10 2006 to 2026 £512,821
239 C R K Stable 11 11 2001 to 2026 £451,128
240 Zenya Yoshida 11 11 1973 to 1993 £375,940
241 Nurlan Bizakov 11 11 2022 to 2024 £854,701
242 Allevamento White Star 11 8 1986 to 1989 £235,043
243 Gestüt Park Wiedingen 11 6 2001 to 2022 £555,556
244 VHW Stables 11 7 1991 to 2001 £300,752
245 Scuderia Incolinx 11 8 2002 to 2014 £447,692

Frequently asked questions

How many big races has 17th Earl of Derby won?

11, across 3 different races between 1910 and 1944. That is 225th of the 288 owners on this site.

What is the biggest race 17th Earl of Derby has won?

the Epsom Derby, worth £1,500,000 and run in Great Britain. 17th Earl of Derby won it in 1924, 1933, 1942.

Which race has 17th Earl of Derby won most often?

the St Leger Stakes, 6 times at Doncaster Racecourse. 3 of these races have gone to 17th Earl of Derby more than once.

How much of the prize does an owner keep?

Great Britain gives the owner 80% on the Flat and 78.25% on the Jumps of the fund. The rest is split between the trainer, the riders and the sport itself, and the owner is the only party paid the prize rather than a percentage of it.

When did 17th Earl of Derby win these races?

Between 1910 and 1944. The busiest decade was the 1920s, with 4 of them.

Who rides for 17th Earl of Derby?

4 different riders have won one of these races in the colours, across 11 wins. The horses number 10.

Where to next

The races 17th Earl of Derby has won, and the owners around them

The races 17th Earl of Derby has won

The owners either side

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