The 60th anniversary of the Hickstead Derby: memorable highlights of this iconic class

Ask any sports fan in the UK if they’ve heard of Hickstead and the answer is likely to be: “Is that the place where horses go up and down a big bank?”

Of course, the All England Jumping Course at Hickstead is an awful lot more than just that, with the venue celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Hickstead Derby this year, and the class is one of those unique British occasions that crosses the line between sport and general interest.

In 1961, when Douglas Bunn supervised the construction of permanent obstacles to run a Derby class at his West Sussex home, not even he could have imagined that six decades later that same competition over an almost identical course would still be making headlines.

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Article written by: Penny Richardson