The Oklahoma Derby is an American 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...

 horse race run annually in mid-October at Remington Park

Remington Park

Remington Park is a horse racing track and casino located in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Built in 1988, it was the first world-class pari-mutuel track in Oklahoma. Remington Park was built by the late Edward J. DeBartolo Sr., the shopping mall developer who also owned Thistledown in Cleveland, Ohio...

 located in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Oklahoma City is the capital and the largest city in the state of Oklahoma. The county seat of Oklahoma County, the city ranks 31st among United States cities in population. The city's population, from the 2010 census, was 579,999, with a metro-area population of 1,252,987 . In 2010, the Oklahoma...

. Open to three-year-olds, the 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 is set at a distance of 1⅛ miles (9 furlongs) on the dirt. The Derby offers a purse of $400,000.

From 1989 through 1996, it was raced at a distance of 1¹/16 miles (8.5 furlongs).

Originally named the Remington Park Derby, in 2001 the race was renamed the Oklahoma Derby. It is the track's flagship event and the most lucrative Thoroughbred race at Remington Park.

Records

Speed record:

• 1:48.00 - Classic Cat (1998) (new stakes and track record)

Most wins by a trainer

Horse trainer

In horse racing, a trainer prepares a horse for races, with responsibility for exercising it, getting it race-ready and determining which races it should enter...

:

• 3 - Donnie Von Hemel (1989, 1991, 2007)

Most wins by an owner:

• No owner has won this race more than once.

Winners since 1999

Year	Winner	Jockey	Trainer	Owner	Time
2011	Redeemed		Rick Dutrow Jr.	Jay Em Ess Stable	1:49.20
2010	Pleasant Prince	Joel Rosario Joel Rosario Joel Rosario is a jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing.Raised on a farm where he regularly road horses, Joel Rosario attended jockey school for six months. He obtained his professional license at age fourteen and began riding at Hipódromo V Centenario in Santo Domingo where he earned his...	Wesley Ward	The Ramseys	1:48.81
2009	Fiddlers Afleet	Channing Hill Channing Hill Channing Hill is an American jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing.Hill began riding horses when he was 16 years old. He rode full time at Prairie Meadows between his junior and senior years in high school. After graduating from Columbus High School in 2005 he traveled to New York to...	Michael Hushion	Marc Ferrell	1:51.00
2008	Golden Yank	Jamie Theriot Jamie Theriot Jamie Theriot is an American jockey. The son of Thoroughbred horse trainer Harold Theriot, he is a nephew of jockey Larry Melancon....	Gary A. Thomas	Millard R. Seldin	1:50.47
2007	Going Ballistic	Tim Doocy	Donnie Von Hemel	Mark & Mary Kindred	1:49.74
2006	Mr. Pursuit	Cliff Berry	Joe Petalino	Illona Whetstone	1:50.21
2005	Military Major	Jeffrey Burningham	Michael Caraman	Kinsman Stable George Steinbrenner George Michael Steinbrenner III was an American businessman who was the principal owner and managing partner of Major League Baseball's New York Yankees. During Steinbrenner's 37-year ownership from 1973 to his death in July 2010, the longest in club history, the Yankees earned seven World Series...	1:49.49
2004	Wally's Choice	Luis Quinonez	Michael Biehler	Curtis Sampson et al.	1:50.26
2003	Comic Truth	Cliff Berry	Patrick Daly	K.K. & V. Jayaraman	1:49.59
2002	The Judge Sez Who	Cornelio Velasquez Cornelio Velásquez Cornelio H. Velásquez is a jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing. He was introduced to horse racing at age fifteen by trainer Carlos Salazar Guardia in his native Panama and enrolled in the national jockey school...	Milton W. Wolfson	Dick Simon	1:49.34
2001	Top Hit	Garrett Gomez	R. Kory Owens	Triple AAA Ranch	1:49.79
2000	Performing Magic	Shane Sellers Shane Sellers Shane Jude Sellers is an American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey. At age eleven, he began working around horses and in 1983 rode his first winner at Evangeline Downs....	John Shirreffs John Shirreffs John A. Shirreffs is an American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer.Based in California, Vietnam War veteran John Shirreffs began training Thoroughbreds in 1978. He has won a number of stakes races with his most important coming in the 2005 Kentucky Derby when Giacomo scored a major upset...	The Thoroughbred Corp. The Thoroughbred Corp. The Thoroughbred Corporation is a Thoroughbred horse racing and breeding operation established in 1994 by principal partner Prince Ahmed bin Salman of the Saudi Arabian royal family...	1:50.36
1999	Temperance Time	Tim Doocy	Kenny Smith	Barker, Moses & Barker	1:49.40
1998	Classic Cat	Shane Sellers Shane Sellers Shane Jude Sellers is an American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey. At age eleven, he began working around horses and in 1983 rode his first winner at Evangeline Downs....	David C. Cross, Jr.	Gary M. Garber	1:48.00
1997	Wild Rush	Gary Stevens	Richard Mandella	Stronach Stables Frank Stronach Frank Stronach, CM is an Austrian-Canadian businessman. He is the founder of Magna International, an international automotive parts company based in Aurora, Ontario, Canada, and Magna Entertainment Corp., which specializes in horse-racing entertainment...	1:53.60
1996	Semoran	Russell Baze Russell Baze Russell Avery Baze is a horse racing jockey. He holds the record for the most race wins in North American horse racing history, and is a member of the United States Racing Hall of Fame....	Bob Baffert Bob Baffert Robert A. "Bob" Baffert is an American horse owner and trainer, whose horses have won three Kentucky Derbies, five Preakness Stakes, one Belmont Stakes and two Kentucky Oaks. He graduated from the University of Arizona's with a Bachelor of Science degree. -Early career:Bob Baffert began his...	D. Dizney/J. English	1:46.60
1995	Dazzling Falls	Garrett Gomez Garrett K. Gomez Garrett Keith Gomez is an American thoroughbred jockey.-Early career:Gomez learned to ride by watching his father, Louie, who was a jockey at many tracks in the Southwest United States...	Chuck Turco	Chateau Ridge Farms	1:42.80
1994	Smilin Singing Sam	Larry Melancon Larry Melancon Larry J. Melancon is an American jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing who rides primarily on the Kentucky-Arkansas circuit....	Niall O'Callaghan Niall M. O'Callaghan Niall M. O'Callaghan is an American Thoroughbred horse trainer.O'Callaghan became involved in the sport of Thoroughbred horse racing as an apprentice jockey in his native Ireland. In 1982 he emigrated to the United States where he studied at Miami Dade Community College in Florida. In 1988, he...	Dogwood Stable Dogwood Stable Dogwood Stable is an American Thoroughbred racehorse partnership founded in 1969 by W. Cothran "Cot" Campbell of Aiken, South Carolina.The pioneers of thoroughbred partnerships, the operation's stated policy is to acquire moderately priced, young horses...	1:43.20
1993	Marked Tree	Garrett Gomez Garrett K. Gomez Garrett Keith Gomez is an American thoroughbred jockey.-Early career:Gomez learned to ride by watching his father, Louie, who was a jockey at many tracks in the Southwest United States...	Tom Bohannan	John Ed Anthony Loblolly Stable Loblolly Stable was a Thoroughbred horse breeding and racing stable in Lake Hamilton, Arkansas owned by businessman John Ed Anthony and his former wife Mary Lynn. The stable's first top runner was Cox's Ridge who won important races in 1977 and 1978 and went on to become an excellent sire...	1:43.80
1992	Vying Victor	Ron Hansen	Ian P. D. Jory	M/M Marvin Malmuth	1:43.60
1991	Queen's Gray Bee	Not found	Donnie Von Hemel	Virginia Singletary	nf
1990	Wicked Destiny	John L. Lively	Not found	Jack Choate	1:43.00
1989	Clever Trevor	Don Pettinger Donald R. Pettinger Donald R. Pettinger Donald R. Pettinger Donald R. Pettinger (born December 21, 1961 in Holly, Colorado is an American jockey in Thoroughbred flat horse racing.He is the winner of a number of stakes races, including the 1989 Arlington Classic at Chicago's Arlington Park and the 2002 Valley View...	Donnie Von Hemel	Don C. & Cheri McNeill	1:43.00