FASTEST DERBY WINNERS FINAL 2F, 1991 ONWARDS
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Rank Year Horse
Going
Overall time
Final 2.00f
1 2023 AUGUSTE RODIN
Good/Firm
153.88s 153.27s
22.18s 22.35s
2 2001 GALILEO
Firm
FASTEST DERBY WINNERS FROM HOME TURN, 1965 ONWARDS Rank Year Horse Going Overall time Final 3.44f 1 2001 GALILEO Firm 153.27s 37.80s 2 1970 NIJINSKY Firm 154.68s 37.85s 3 2023 AUGUSTE RODIN Good/Firm 153.88s 38.25s
SECTIONAL SPOTLIGHT …there remains only one true Derby – the one at Epsom, with others mere imitations – and that is the place to start this week’s column, especially as something remarkable happened in the race... Auguste Rodin ran faster late on than any winner in the modern era, and that is quite something. Simon Rowlands, Attheraces.com
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