AAMI Victoria Derby

The AAMI Victoria Derby is one of the premier races held for three-year-olds each year in Australia at Flemington racecourse in Melbourne. The Victoria Derby usually takes place in late October or early November on the final Saturday before our greatest race the Melbourne Cup the following Tuesday.

Offering prizemoney of $1.5Million, the three-year-old classic is raced over a distance of 2500 metres at level weights and all up-and-coming 3yo staying types aspire to win this most prestigious race.

Derby Day is the first day of the magnificent four day 2010 Melbourne Cup Carnival at Flemington and boasts an impressive nine group races on the card, including three other Group 1 races alongside the Derby, the Mackinnon Stakes, Coolmore Stud Stakes and Myer Classic.

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Australia’s best colts & geldings and any outstanding fillies will line-up for the Victoria Derby in the hope of adding a Blue Riband race to their resume and the Group 2 AAMI Vase over 2040 metres held the previous Saturday on Cox Plate Day is generally a good guide to this race.

The Victoria Turf Club (VRC) host racing at Flemington race track and the AAMI Victoria Derby adds plenty of class and excitement to the prestigious 2010 Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival along with the Crown Oaks and Emirates Stakes held later in the Flemington carnival.

The $2.5Million Caulfield Cup and $3Million WS Cox Plate are also highly regarded feature races held during the spring carnival and they both take place in the two weeks leading up to Derby Day.

2010 AAMI Victoria Derby Day race times

The 2010 AAMI Derby is Race 6 on the card and competitors will jump from the barriers at 2:55pm AEST Melbourne time at the majestic Flemington racecourse on Saturday 30th October, three days before Melbourne Cup Day on Tuesday 2nd November.

Derby Day attracted 108,000 racegoers to Flemington racecourse in 2009 to witness New Zealand galloper Monaco Consul finish too strongly for Extra Hero and Viking Legend to score a top win.

AAMI Victoria Derby History

First run in 1855, the Victoria Derby is one of the oldest classic races in this country and oddly enough, fillies won the first three editions of the race. In recent times the race has been dominated by males with Frances Tressady the last filly to win the event way back in 1923.

The Derby has been kind to maiden gallopers on the odd occasion with Martini Henry (1883), Fire Oak (1990) and Redding (1992) all going into the Derby as maidens before tasting unlikely success.

Clare Lindop became the first female jockey to win a Victoria Derby as a jockey when she rode Rebel Raider to victory in 2008 beating the hotpot Whobegotyou into second place while in 1995, highly successful trainer Gai Waterhouse became the first woman to train a Derby winner when star galloper Nothin’ Leica Dane was victorious.