St. Louis Derby

The St. Louis Derby run at Fairmount Park Racetrack in Collinsville, Illinois held its inaugural race on August 26, 2006. Open to three-year-old thoroughbred horses of either gender, and run at one and one sixteenth miles on the dirt, this ungraded stakes race offers a purse of $250,000, funded privately by local business men.

Inaugurated in 1926, the race was called the Fairmount Derby. It ran until 1930 after which it did not return until 1967 and for a time achieved Grade III status. It was last run in 2006.

Past winners
  • 2006 - Lawyer Ron
  • 1996 through 2005 - NOT RUN
  • 1995 - Strawberry Wine
  • 1994 - Silver Goblin (Millionaire Oklahoma-Bred stakes winner.)
  • 1993 - Adhocracy
  • 1992 - Count The Time
  • 1991 - Discover
  • 1989 - Andover Man
  • 1988 - Primal (Millionaire stakes winner, including Grade I Donn Handicap.)
  • 1987 - Parochial
  • 1986 - Goshen Store
  • 1985 - Smile (Millionaire and American Champion Sprint Horse, 1986.) (Clever Allemont, winner of the 1985 Rebel Stakes and Southwest Stakes, came in third. In 2008, 26-year-old Clever Allemont was rescued from slaughter.)
  • 1984 - Big Pistol (stakes winner of Grade I Haskell Invitational Handicap.)
  • 1983 - Hail to Rome
  • 1982 - Northern Majesty
  • 1981 - Pocket Zipper (stakes winner of Grade I American Derby.)
  • 1970 - Robin's Bug (Maryland Horse of the Year, 1970.)
  • 1969 - Barely Once (Illinois Horse of the Year, 1970.)
  • 1968 - Blarney Kiss
  • 1967 - English Muffin
  • Discontinued for 37 years
  • 1930 - Gallant Knight (stakes winner of Latonia Derby, 2nd in Kentucky Derby.)
  • 1929 - Karl Eitel
  • 1928 - Misstep (stakes winner of the Arlington Handicap, 2nd in Kentucky Derby.)
  • 1927 - Buddy Bauer (Kentucky Derby winner Whiskery finished second.)
  • 1926 - Haste (stakes winner of the Withers Stakes.)
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