British Jumping Derby

The British Jumping Derby meeting - informally known as the Equestrian.com Hickstead Derby - is an annual showjumping event held since 1961 at the All England Jumping Course at Hickstead in June every year. It is considered one of the premier events in the equestrian calendar.

A highlight of the meeting is the British Jumping Derby, a 1,195-metre course with tricky jumps including the aptly named Devil's Dyke – three fences in short succession with a water-filled ditch in the middle and the difficult Derby Bank, a jump with 3 ft 5in rails on top and a 10 ft 6in slope down the front.

The main arena is used for a number of classes throughout the meeting (and at the Royal International Horse Show amongst others), but the main Derby class always follows the same class, consisting of the following fences of 21 jumping efforts:

from main drop which horses must slide down

The results of the main British Jumping Derby class at the show are as follows:

Following a number of years of title sponsorship by furniture retailer DFS, making the event the DFS British Jumping Derby, in 2011 the sponsorship changed to floor and bed furnishing retailer carpetright, becoming the Carpetright British Jumping Derby. Sponsorship has now been taken over by the UK's largest online Equestrian retailer - Equestrian.com

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