![]() Legendary royal jockey Willie Carson, 79, who rode the Queen’s filly Dunfermline to win two Classics – The Oaks at Epsom Downs and the St Leger – in 1977, said it would be a ‘fairytale’ for her to finally win the Derby in her Platinum Jubilee year after coming so close after her coronation 69 years ago. The Queen, who is patron of The Jockey Club and has had more than 1,800 winners globally, has three contenders in this year’s race: Reach For The Moon, who was also bred at the Royal Stud in Sandringham, Educator and General Idea. Known as the world’s most prestigious flat race, it remains the only one of the five ‘Classics’ Her Majesty is yet to win as a life-long racehorse owner, despite having finished second with Aureole in 1953 – just four days after her Coronation – and third in 2011 with Carlton House, the last horse to contest The Derby in her colours. Plans are being put in place to ensure the Queen will be able to cheer her horses on from the royal box at the Platinum Jubilee Epsom Derby – and perhaps bag the ‘fairytale’ racing win that has so far eluded her.
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