START HERE START KILDARE DERBY St. Brigid's Cathedral 3 & Round Tower 4 2 LEGENDS 5 1 Heritage Centre Finish 8 trail Kildare Village 6 7 The Irish Derby was first run at The Curragh in 9 1866. Selim was the first winner, but it wasn’t until Orby’s win in 1907 that the race truly captured the Solas Bhride Centre imagination of the Irish racing fraternity. 10 The earliest Irish Derbies were run over 14 furlongs until 11 1872 when the race was reduced to its current distance of 12 furlongs, or 1.5 miles. Start 12 St.Brigid's Well And so we invite you to walk the Derby “trip” over 12 To The You are Here National Stud furlongs, following in the hoofprints of the legends of Ireland’s pre-eminent horse race. Starting with 1900 and finishing at the present day, each furlong marker will introduce you to the fastest, strongest, luckiest or most interesting horses and the key trainers and jockeys of each decade of Derby races. How to follow it The distance covered is 1.5 miles (12 furlongs or 2.4km). Allow 45 minutes to complete the trail. Starting with furlong marker 12, follow the markers past number 1, to your finishing post, right in the centre of town. Each furlong marker tells the story of the Derby during that decade. Additional information is available by scanning the QR code on each panel. The route is shown on every furlong marker, so you won’t get lost! 2010 to 2020 2010 Camelot, 2012 KILDARE DERBY LEGENDS Winner of the 2000 Guineas, the trail Epsom Derby and the Irish Derby. TRAINER: Aidan O’Brien Having won the 2000 Guineas, the Epsom Derby and the Irish Derby, the Aidan O’Brien-trained Camelot narrowly lost out on winning the Triple Crown, finishing second in the St Leger. Camelot’s jockey was Ballydoyle stable jockey, 19-year-old Joseph O’Brien, son of Aidan O’Brien, the trainer. It was an auspicious start to his career as he went on to be named Champion Jockey that year. Camelot was his father’s seventh consecutive Irish Derby winner. Bred to be a winner, Australia does the double for the O’Briens, 2014 By a Derby winner Galileo and out of Oaks winner Ouija Board, Australia had a lot of potential to fulfil, and he didn’t disappoint. The Epsom winner made short shrift of the four other horses in the field at The Curragh to land another Derby for the O’Brien team of trainer father and jockey son. Double champion Harzand gives jockey Pat Smullen his first Epsom Derby win, 2016 Despite losing a shoe on the trip from Ireland to Epsom, plucky Harzand defeated 15 opponents St. Brigid's Cathedral to win the English Derby for the 3 & Round Tower 4 Aga Khan and trainer Dermot Weld. 2 For jockey Pat Smullen it was his 5 1 HeritageYou Centreare Here first Epsom win. Three weeks later 1 Finish 8 Harzand completed the double Kildare Village by winning at The Curragh, gifting 6 Weld his third winner. 7 O’Brien domination, 2018 9 In another extraordinary episode for the O’Brien family, Latrobe, trained by Joseph and ridden by his Solas Bhride Centre 10 brother, Donnacha, finished ahead of their father’s Rostropovich in an 11 epic duel to the line. Start 12 St.Brigid's Well To The National Stud 2000 to 2010 to 2000 Galileo, 2001 KILDARE DERBY LEGENDS Dual winner of Irish and Epsom trail Derbies; Sire Extraordinaire. TRAINER: Aidan O’Brien Convincing winner of the Epsom Derby, Galileo was the odds-on favourite to win at The Curragh and to secure the double for trainer Aidan O’Brien, which he did with aplomb under Michael Kinane. An Irish Derby win was the one accolade that eluded champion jockey Kinane and this trip was his 18th attempt. Galileo, housed at John Magnier’s Coolmore Stud, has become one of the greatest stallions of all time. Sinndar scoops both Derbies and the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, 2000 Sinndar, owned by the HH Aga Khan and trained on the Curragh by John Oxx, was the first Irish- trained Epsom winner since Secreto in 1984. He won the ‘Millennium Derby’ at the Curragh by nine lengths under Johnny Murtagh and added the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe to his many accolades before being retired to stud. Grey Swallow’s surprise win is a Weld family affair, 2004 Grey Swallow was a special winner for trainer Dermot Weld, not only because he beat the first four horses across the line at Epsom that year, St. Brigid's Cathedral but because he was born, raised 3 & Round Tower 4 and co-owned by his mother, Mrs 22 You are Here Marguerite Weld. 5 1 Heritage Centre Finish 8 Kildare Village 6 7 9 Solas Bhride Centre 10 11 Start 12 St.Brigid's Well To The National Stud 1990 to 2000 to 1990 St. Jovite, 1992 KILDARE DERBY LEGENDS Broke the track records for speed trail and winning distance. TRAINER: Jim Bolger St. Jovite finished a record 12 lengths ahead of Dr Devious, who had beaten him in the Epsom Derby that season, and in 2:25:60, the fastest time ever for the 12-furlong course. Salsabil becomes the first filly to win since 1900 After the wins of Shareef Dancer and Old Vic in the 1980s for the Maktoum brothers, Salsabil, owned by Sheikh Hamdan al Maktoum, would land the spoils for another branch of the family, having already taken the 1,000 Guineas and the Epsom Oaks. In so doing Salsabil was the first filly to win the Derby since 1900. Zagreb is Curragh trainer Dermot Weld’s first Derby winner, 1996 Zagreb, trained on the Curragh by Dermot Weld, was only thought suitable to run because it rained heavily two days before the 1996 Derby. Pat Shanahan was the jockey to steer Dermot Weld’s first Irish Derby winner home. Desert King is first Irish Derby winner for trainer Aidan O’Brien, 1997 Young trainer and former amateur jockey Aidan O’Brien was already making waves since he’d taken St. Brigid's Cathedral 3 & Round Tower over the Ballydoyle yard that had You are Here4 3 2 been so productive in the hands of Vincent O’Brien (no relation), but in 5 1 Heritage Centre Finish 8 1997 Desert King brought him his first Irish Derby win. Kildare Village 6 7 9 Solas Bhride Centre 10 11 Start 12 St.Brigid's Well To The National Stud 1980 to 1990 to 1980 Shergar, 1981 KILDARE DERBY LEGENDS One of the easiest Irish Derby wins. trail TRAINER: Michael Stoute Though trained in Newmarket, Shergar was bred on the Curragh at Sheshoon, the Aga Khan stud. He won the 1981 Epsom Derby by ten lengths, the greatest distance of any winner. He was ridden to an easy victory at the Curragh by Lester Piggot. Shergar was famously kidnapped from Ballymany, the Aga Khan’s stud a stone’s throw from the Curragh racecourse. He had been retired there the year after his Irish Derby victory to stand as a stallion. No trace of him was ever found. Shahrastani, bred and raced by HH Aga Khan IV completes the double, 1986 Shahrastani (by Nijinsky) won the inaugural Budweiser Irish Derby, the sponsorship of brewer Anheuser-Bausch restoring status of the Irish Derby as the richest race in Europe. Kahyasi completes the Aga Khan’s hattrick of doubles, and on a Sunday, 1988 Kahyasi, bred in Ireland and trained by young Newmarket-based trainer Luca Cumani, became the third St. Brigid's Cathedral Aga Khan horse to win both the 3 & Round Tower 44 You are Here Epsom and Irish Derbies following 2 in the hoofprints of Shergar and 5 1 Heritage Centre Shahrastani. Finish 8 Kildare Village Maktoum family success, 6 1983 and 1989 7 Shareef Dancer’s win in 1983 for Sheikh Maktoum was followed in 9 1989 with Old Vic’s victory for his brother Sheikh Mohammed. His Solas Bhride Centre Highness left a lasting legacy to the 10 Curragh in the form of the Old Vic Gallop, an all-weather gallop, much 11 used to this day, in commemoration of the win. Start 12 St.Brigid's Well To The National Stud 1970 to 1980 Nijinsky, 1970 KILDARE DERBY LEGENDS Winner of the Irish Derby and the trail English Triple Crown, a feat that has never been achieved since. TRAINER: MV O’Brien Nijinsky, bred in Canada but trained at Ballydoyle by Vincent O’Brien, took his place at the starting line of the 1970 Irish Derby the hot favourite, unbeaten in eight races. O’Brien’s stable jockey Liam Ward steered him to victory to rapturous applause that day. Nijinsky, named after Russian ballet dancer Waslaw Nijinsky, is the only horse to have achieved the English Triple Crown (consisting of the 2000 Guineas, the Epsom Derby and the St Leger) in addition to the Irish Derby in the same season. Grundy and Eddery complete the double, 1975 Not only did the Peter Walwyn-trained Grundy win both the English and Irish Derbies but Grundy’s jockey, Irish-born Pat Eddery, was the first jockey to achieve the double on the same horse. The Minstrel cements the winning partnership of MV O’Brien and Lester Piggott, 1977 Surviving an objection reminiscent St. Brigid's Cathedral of that made against Premonition 3 & Round Tower 4 in the 1953 Derby, Canadian-bred 2 The Minstrel continued the pattern 55 You are Here 1 Heritage Centre of Derby winners from Vincent Finish 8 O’Brien’s yard, ridden by Lester Kildare Village Piggott.