The Derby Stakes is the most famous horse-race in the world. It is run over 2400 meters on EpsomDowns in England on the last Wednesday in May or the first Wednesday in June by colts and fillies three years old. It was founded in 1780 by and named after Edward Smith Stanley, the 12th Earl of Derby. The races were originally known as the Epsom Races, and were famous in Victorian England as the most popular of the English horse-races, being patronised by all classes of people together. Research Derby Stakes
Epsom races is London Cockney rhyming slang for braces.
Epsom races is London Cockney rhyming slang for a group of friends (faces). Research Epsom Races
 
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