Derby | |
Location | Epsom Downs Racecourse |
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Date | 6 June 1984 |
Winning horse | Secreto |
Starting price | 14/1 |
Jockey | Christy Roche |
Trainer | David O'Brien |
Owner | Luigi Miglietti |
Conditions | Good |
1-2-3 | ||
Secreto | El Gran Senor | Mighty Flutter |
Also Ran | ||
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4-5-6 | ||
At Talaq | Alphabatim | Telios |
7-8-9 | ||
Long Pond | Kaytu | Sheer Heights |
10-11-12 | ||
Ilium | Pigwidgeon | Elegant Air |
13-14-15 | ||
Claude Monet | My Volga Boatman | Sassanoco |
16-17 | ||
Cataldi | Northern Fred | 17 Ran |
The 1984 Epsom Derby was the 205th annual running of the Derby horse race. It took place at Epsom Downs Racecourse on 6 June 1984. It was the first edition of the race to be commercially sponsored and was known as the Ever Ready Derby. The sponsorship meant that the first prize of £227,680 was the biggest in the history of the race.
The race was won by Luigi Miglietti's Secreto at odds of 14/1, ridden by Christy Roche and trained in Ireland by David O'Brien. The favourite El Gran Senor, trained by David O'Brien's father Vincent finished second by a short head. The colt's win was a first success in the race for owner, trainer and jockey. At the age of 27, David O'Brien was one of the youngest men to have trained a Derby winner.
Race result[2]
Dist * | Horse | Jockey | Trainer | SP | |
1 | Secreto | Christy Roche | David O'Brien (IRE) | 14/1 | |
2 | shd | El Gran Senor | Pat Eddery | Vincent O'Brien (IRE) | 8/11 |
3 | 3 | Mighty Flutter | Brian Rouse | David Elsworth | 66/1 |
4 | 1½ | At Talaq | Richard Hills | Harry Thomson Jones | 250/1 |
5 | 1½ | Alphabatim | Lester Piggott | Guy Harwood | 11/2 |
6 | 1½ | Telios | Geoff Baxter | Bruce Hobbs | 100/1 |
7 | 1½ | Long Pond | George Duffield | Paul Kelleway | 150/1 |
8 | 5 | Kaytu | Willie Carson | Dick Hern | 12/1 |
9 | 1 | Sheer Heights | Paul Cook | Paul Cole | 100/1 |
10 | 2 | Ilium | Tony Murray | Harry Thomson Jones | 16/1 |
11 | 6 | Pigwidgeon | Greville Starkey | Guy Harwood | 150/1 |
12 | 7 | Elegant Air | Bruce Raymond | Ian Balding | 50/1 |
13 | 3 | Claude Monet | Steve Cauthen | Henry Cecil | 12/1 |
14 | 4 | My Volga Boatman | Walter Swinburn | Michael Stoute | 33/1 |
15 | 7 | Sassanoco | Trevor Rogers | Harry Thomson Jones | 500/1 |
16 | 1 | Northern Fred | Gary Moore | Charles Milbank (FR) | 150/1 |
17 | Cataldi | Tony Clark | Guy Harwood | 250/1 |
Further details of the winner, Secreto:
Notable runs by the future Derby participants as two-year-olds in 1983:[3]
Early-season appearances in 1984 and trial races prior to running in the Derby:[4]
Group 1 / Grade I victories after running in the Derby.
Leading progeny of participants in the 1984 Epsom Derby.[5][6][7][8]
El Gran Senor (2nd)
Secreto (1st) - Exported to USA - Later exported to Japan
At Talaq (4th)
Elegant Air (12th)
Alphabatim (5th)
Cataldi (17th)
Claude Monet (13th) - Artistic Reef (3rd King George Stakes 1992), Sweet Revival (dam of Sweet Return) - Later exported to South Africa
Telios (6th) - Exported to Japan - Mejiro Lambada (1st Nikkei Shinshun Hai 1997)
Long Pond (7th) - Midnights Daughter (dam of One Knight)
Kaytu (8th) - Sired minor jumps winners
Ilium (10th) - Sired minor jumps winners
Mighty Flutter (3rd) - Exported to Spain
Sheer Heights (9th) - Exported to Saudi Arabia
My Volga Boatman (14th) - Exported to Turkey
Northern Fred (16th) - Exported to Australia