{"id":3021,"date":"2025-12-12T13:53:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T13:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=3021"},"modified":"2025-12-12T13:53:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T13:53:58","slug":"epsom-derby-prize-money-hits-record-2m-for-2026-race-and-free-entry-for-chidlren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=3021","title":{"rendered":"Epsom Derby: Prize money hits record \u00a32m for 2026 race and free entry for chidlren"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Prize money for the Derby at Epsom will rise to \u00a32m in 2026 making it the joint-richest race in the UK as part of a series of changes.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Jockey Club is increasing its prize pot by \u00a3500,000, with \u00a31m going to the winner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Other changes for next year&#8217;s Derby, which will be run on 6 June, include under-18s being given free entry to the two-day meeting in an effort to encourage a new generation of fans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Coronation Cup has been switched from the Friday to the Saturday and its prize money has more than doubled from \u00a3450,000 to \u00a31m through new sponsorship from racehorse breeders Coolmore.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Across both days there will be a prize money increase of \u00a31.375m, with the Oaks remaining as the feature race on the Friday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/horse-racing\/articles\/c93wd4eej9yo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prize money for the Derby at E&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[251],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3021"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}