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TRAINER · 146th BY BIG-RACE WINS

Fred Darling

37 wins in the world's richest races between 1907 and 1947, across 15 different races. The biggest is the Epsom Derby, worth £1,500,000.

Rolls of honour are kept race by race, so a trainer's big-race record only exists once every one of them on this site has been read and turned sideways.

BIG-RACE WINS 37
BIGGEST WIN £1.5m
RACES WON 15
FIRST AND LAST 1907 to 1947
COUNTRIES 1

When the wins came

37 wins from 1907 to 1947, in 3-year spells

Best spell: 1938-40, 6 wins

A list of winners sorted by date reads as one long run. Drawn, it has a shape: Fred Darling took 6 of these 37 in 1938-40 alone.

The races Fred Darling keeps winning

By number of wins

8 won more than once

Epsom Derby 7 St James's Palace Stakes 5 2000 Guineas Stakes 5 St Leger Stakes 3 Jersey Stakes 3 Queen's Vase 2 Craven Stakes 2 Newmarket Stakes 2 Gordon Stakes 1 Chester Vase 1 Dee Stakes 1 Lingfield Derby Trial 1

Every big race Fred Darling has won

37 winners, newest first

15 different races

Year Race Horse Jockey Country Worth
1947 2000 Guineas Stakes Tudor Minstrel Gordon Richards Great Britain £525,000
1947 Blue Riband Trial Stakes Combat Gordon Richards Great Britain £50,000
1947 Chester Vase Edward Tudor Gordon Richards Great Britain £140,000
1947 Jersey Stakes Nebuchadnezzar Sir Gordon Richards Great Britain £110,000
1947 Newmarket Stakes Blue Train Gordon Richards Great Britain £55,000
1947 St James's Palace Stakes Tudor Minstrel Gordon Richards Great Britain £650,000
1942 2000 Guineas Stakes Big Game Gordon Richards Great Britain £525,000
1942 St Leger Stakes Sun Chariot Gordon Richards Great Britain £700,000
1941 Craven Stakes Morogoro Harry Wragg Great Britain £85,000
1941 Epsom Derby Owen Tudor Billy Nevett Great Britain £1,500,000£1.5m
1940 Epsom Derby Pont l'Eveque Sam Wragg Great Britain £1,500,000£1.5m
1940 Greenham Stakes Tant Mieux Gordon Richards Great Britain £55,000
1939 European Free Handicap Solar Cloud Cliff Richards Great Britain £35,000
1938 2000 Guineas Stakes Pasch Gordon Richards Great Britain £525,000
1938 Epsom Derby Bois Roussel Charlie Elliott Great Britain £1,500,000£1.5m
1938 Queen's Vase Foxglove II Gordon Richards Great Britain £262,500
1934 Jersey Stakes Medieval Knight Sir Gordon Richards Great Britain £110,000
1934 Lingfield Derby Trial Medieval Knight Gordon Richards Great Britain £60,000
1933 Craven Stakes Lochiel Gordon Richards Great Britain £85,000
1931 2000 Guineas Stakes Cameronian Joe Childs Great Britain £525,000
1931 Epsom Derby Cameronian Freddie Fox Great Britain £1,500,000£1.5m
1931 St James's Palace Stakes Cameronian Freddie Fox Great Britain £650,000
1929 Gordon Stakes Defoe Freddie Fox Great Britain £200,000
1928 Queen's Vase Maid Of Perth Jack Sirett Great Britain £262,500
1926 Epsom Derby Coronach Joe Childs Great Britain £1,500,000£1.5m
1926 St James's Palace Stakes Coronach Joe Childs Great Britain £650,000
1926 St Leger Stakes Coronach Joe Childs Great Britain £700,000
1925 2000 Guineas Stakes Manna Steve Donoghue Great Britain £525,000
1925 Epsom Derby Manna Steve Donoghue Great Britain £1,500,000£1.5m
1924 St James's Palace Stakes Tom Pinch George Archibald Great Britain £650,000
1922 Dee Stakes Fred Power Vic Smyth Great Britain £100,000
1922 Epsom Derby Captain Cuttle Steve Donoghue Great Britain £1,500,000£1.5m
1922 St James's Palace Stakes Captain Cuttle Steve Donoghue Great Britain £650,000
1921 Jersey Stakes Gask Vic Smyth Great Britain £110,000
1916 St Leger Stakes Hurry On Charlie Childs Great Britain £700,000
1907 Newmarket Stakes Acclaim Billy Higgs Great Britain £55,000

The figure on each row is what that race puts up today, which is the number that says how big a day it was. The prize itself goes to the owner and the trainer takes a percentage of it, set by the rules of the country the race is run in.

The trainers either side

Ranked 146th of 187 on big-race wins

# Trainer Wins Races Span Biggest win
136 Peter Rau 40 31 1991 to 2008 £555,556
137 Kenneth G. McPeek 39 32 1996 to 2026 £3,759,399£3.8m
138 Chad Brown 39 21 2011 to 2026 £1,503,759£1.5m
139 Jessica Harrington 39 28 1996 to 2026 £854,701
140 Peter Easterby 39 20 1967 to 1991 £646,880
141 Vittorio Caruso 39 23 1991 to 2011 £447,692
142 Jens Hirschberger 39 25 2007 to 2018 £555,556
143 Tony Cruz 38 13 1997 to 2023 £3,800,000£3.8m
144 Joseph O'Brien 38 32 2017 to 2026 £5,291,005£5.3m
145 Colin Tizzard 38 28 2008 to 2022 £646,880
147 Sam Hildreth 37 12 1899 to 1929 £1,503,759£1.5m
148 J. Elliott Burch 37 20 1950 to 1984 £1,503,759£1.5m
149 Bernard Sécly 37 19 1976 to 2002 £726,496
150 Roger Charlton 37 33 1990 to 2019 £4,511,278£4.5m
151 Jean-Marie Béguigné 37 29 1984 to 2011 £1,282,051£1.3m
152 Richard Hannon Jr. 37 27 2014 to 2024 £650,000
153 MacKenzie Miller 36 22 1956 to 1994 £3,759,399£3.8m
154 James E. Day 36 21 1984 to 2001 £1,503,759£1.5m
155 John M. Veitch 35 29 1977 to 1992 £5,263,158£5.3m
156 Murray Baker 35 16 1990 to 2022 £2,645,503£2.6m

Frequently asked questions

How many big races has Fred Darling won?

37, across 15 different races between 1907 and 1947. That is 146th of the 187 trainers on this site.

What is the biggest race Fred Darling has won?

the Epsom Derby, worth £1,500,000 and run in Great Britain. Fred Darling won it in 1941, 1940, 1938, 1931, 1926, 1925, 1922.

Which race has Fred Darling won most often?

the Epsom Derby, 7 times at Epsom Downs. 8 of these races have gone to Fred Darling more than once.

How much prize money has Fred Darling won?

The prize goes to the owner, and the trainer takes a percentage of it set by the rules of the country the race is run in. What this page holds is the races themselves: 37 wins, the biggest of them worth £1,500,000.

When did Fred Darling win these races?

Between 1907 and 1947. The busiest spell was 1938-40, with 6 of them.

Where to next

The races Fred Darling has won, and the trainers around them

The races Fred Darling has won

The trainers either side

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