The St. Louis Derby run at Fairmount Park in Collinsville, Illinois

Collinsville, Illinois

Collinsville is a city located mainly in Madison County, and partially in St. Clair County, both in Illinois. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 26,016. Collinsville is approximately 12 miles from St. Louis, Missouri and is considered part of that city's Metro-East area...

 held its inaugural race on August 26, 2006. Open to three-year-old thoroughbred

Thoroughbred

The Thoroughbred is a horse breed best known for its use in horse racing. Although the word thoroughbred is sometimes used to refer to any breed of purebred horse, it technically refers only to the Thoroughbred breed...

 horses of either gender, and run at one and one sixteenth miles on the dirt, this ungraded

Graded stakes race

A graded stakes race is a term applied since 1973 by the American Graded Stakes Committee of the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association to thoroughbred horse races in the United States and Canada to describe races that derive their name from the stake, or entry fee, owners must pay...

 stakes race offers a purse of $250,000, funded privately by local business men.

This race was formerly called the Fairmount Derby and as a Grade III race had a checkered career. Inaugurated in 1926, it ran until 1930 where it was discontinued but apparently later run at a different track. At the moment (2008) it once again appears to be discontinued.

Past winners

• 2007 - NOT RUN
• 2006 - Lawyer Ron
  Lawyer Ron
  Lawyer Ron was an American thoroughbred race horse. He was bred and owned by James T. Hines, Jr., an entrepreneur who started his first company, Premium Allied Tool, in Owensboro, Kentucky in 1966, and it became a multi-million dollar business...
  
  
• 1996 through 2005 - NOT RUN
• 1995 - Strawberry Wine
• 1994 - Silver Goblin
• 1993 - Adhocracy
• 1992 - Count The Time
• 1991 - Discover
• 1989 - Andover Man
• 1988 - Primal (Multiple stakes winner, including Grade I Donn Handicap
  Donn Handicap
  The Donn Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually in late January/early February at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Florida.The race is named after the Donn family, who for many years owned and operated the racetrack....
  
  .)
• 1987 - Parochial
• 1986 - Goshen Store
• 1985 - Smile (American Champion Sprint Horse, 1986.) (Clever Allemont, winner of the 1985 Rebel Stakes
  Rebel Stakes
  The Rebel Stakes is an American Grade II Thoroughbred horse race held annually in March at Oaklawn Park racetrack in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Open to three-year-old horses, it is raced on dirt over a distance of 11/16 miles...
  
   and Southwest Stakes
  Southwest Stakes
  The Southwest Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race held at Oaklawn Park Race Track in Hot Springs, Arkansas in mid February during the President's Day weekend. The race is open to three-year-old horses willing to race one mile on the dirt and currently offers a purse of $250,000...
  
  , came in third. In 2008, 26-year-old Clever Allemont was rescued from slaughter.)
• 1984 - Big Pistol
• 1983 - Hail to Rome
• 1982 - Northern Majesty
• 1981 - Pocket Zipper
• 1970 - Robin's Bug (Maryland
  Maryland
  Maryland is a U.S. state located in the Mid Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east...
  
   Horse of the Year, 1970.)
• 1969 - Barely Once
• 1968 - Blarney Kiss
• Discontinued for years (possibly run at a different track?)
• 1930 - Gallant Knight
• 1929 - Karl Eitel
• 1928 - Misstep Upset (Sired by Upset, the only horse to ever beat Man o' War
  Man O' War
  Man O' War, man o' war or manowar may refer to:* Man-of-war, a warship* Man of war for uses with this spelling - Places :...
  
  .)
• 1927 - Buddy Bauer
• 1926 - Haste