Tags: Horse Race, Race.
The St. Louis Derby run at Fairmount Park in Collinsville Illinois held its inaugural race on August 26 2006. Open to three-year-old thoroughbred horses of either gender and run at one and one sixteenth miles on the dirt this ungraded stakes race offers a purse of $250000 funded privately by local business men.This race was formerly called the Fairmount Derby and as a Grade III race had a checkered career.