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DERBY hero Shaamit may be aimed at a rapid big-race double, winning trainer William Haggas revealed yesterday. The colt's next outing could be in the Budweiser Irish Derby at The Curragh on June ...

English champion Shaamit, who won the 1996 Epsom Derby (Eng-I) in his seasonal debut, died the night of April 7. According to the Racing Post, the 8-year-old stallion, who stood at Alfred Buller's ...

Trainer William Haggas, whose only previous Derby runner was winner Shaamit in 1996, looks like having only his second ever runner in the Classic after Our Channel earned an automatic berth in the ...

No matter that Shaamit announced himself as a champion on that heady Saturday in early June, or that his trainer produced the Class 5 median auction maiden winner off a 217-day break to run the race ...

Shaamit, his first runner in an Epsom Classic, let alone the Derby, gave the Newmarket handler victory at the first attempt. Haggas remembers it like it was yesterday. Yet the 54-year-old says the ...

Haggas’s only previous Derby runner, Shaamit, won the 1996 race and his latest hope, owned by Abdulla Al Mansoori, held on for a narrow victory from Marzocco and Stars Over The Sea. Maureen ...

The 49-year-old, who won the 1996 Derby on Shaamit, follows twin brother Richard, who retired in March. "You can't go on too long and I've had a great career and I've really enjoyed it," Hills ...

Anthony Van Dyck tilts the balance of power further in favour of Coolmore with victory at EpsomCredit: Mark Cranham Shortly after Saturday's Derby the result of the 1996 race was posted on a racing ...

Haggas celebrated success in the 1996 Derby with Shaamit, his first runner, and on Saturday he hopes to fulfil a dream for the Managing Director of the race sponsor, Bernard Kantor, before he ...

The Young Rascal will be just the fourth runner in the Derby for Haggas after more than 30 years with a licence and given that he won the race with Shaamit in 1996 and Storm the Stars finished ...