Goodwood Derby

The Goodwood Derby, launched 78 years after the more famous Epsom Derby, was run over a mile and a half of the Gratwicke Course for colts carrying 8st 10lbs and fillies carrying 8st 7lbs. The race conditions imposed penalties, up to a maximum of 10lb, for winners of prestigious races; the Epsom Derby winner and second to carry 10lb and 7lb extra respectively, the Oaks winner and second to carry 6lb and 4 lb respectively, the winner of the 2000 Guineas, 1000 Guineas or Stockbridge Derby to carry 5lb extra.
Early history:- The inaugural running of the Goodwood version of the Derby was on Wednesday 28th July 1858 when Lord Ribblesdale’s The Happy Land beat Compromise and Telegram into second and third.
Favourites have a 72% success rate. A £10 level stakes bet on each favourite provided a £15 Profit.
Goodwood Derby Group 1 1 mile 4 furlongs
Pos. Horse Jockey Age/weight Owner
1858 THE HAPPY LAND F Adams 3-8st 10lbs Lord Ribblesdale 100/8
1859 THE PROMISED LAND A Day William Day 3-9st 1lbs Mr William Day 1/25 fav
1860 NORTHERN LIGHT Custance John Osborne snr 3-8st 7lbs Mr James Merry 1/5 fav
1861 KILDONAN L Snowden 3-8st 10lbs Mr T Parr 5/4
1862 ALVEDISTON Custance 3-8st 10lbs Mr Bevill 2/5 fav
1863 JARNICOTON A Watkins 3-8st 7lbs Count Frederick de Lagrange 5/6 fav
1864 COLSTERDALE Jem Goater 3-8st 10lbs Mr W G Craven walked over
1865 LONGDOWN George Fordham 3-8st 10lbs Mr Spencer 8/11 fav
1866 WAR T Ashmall 3-8st 10lbs Mr J Bowes walked over
1867 FRIPONNIER Loates 3-8st 10lbs Mr Pryor walked over
1868 NAIVETE Mordan 3-8st 7lbs Mr Padwick walked over
1869 CHATELHERAULT T French 3-8st 12lbs Mr Elyott Bower walked over
1870 GOLDSBOROUGH George Fordham 3-8st 10lbs Mr J Bowes walked over
1871 KING OF THE FOREST Snowden Robert Peck 3-9st 1lbs Mr James Merry
1872 MAID OF PERTH T French 3-8st 7lbs Mr R H Long 10/11 jt fav
1873 TAMBOUR George Fordham 3-8st 10lbs M Lefevre 4/7 fav
1874 ECOSSAIS George Fordham Tom Jennings 3-8st 10lbs M Lefevre walked over
1875 BALFE Cannon Charles Blanton 3-8st 10lbs Prince Soltykoff walked over
1876 HELLENIST T Chaloner 3-8st 10lbs Lord Ailesbury 100/30
1877 GLEN ARTHUR Dodge Price 3-9st 1lbs Mr W S Mitchell-Innes
1878 LORD CLIVE Fred Archer 3-8st 10lbs Duke of St Albans 8/11 fav