page_title: Harvester (horse)
section_title: Epsom Derby
hierarchical_section_title: Harvester (horse) / Racing career / 1884: three-year-old season / Epsom Derby
caption_attribution_description: English: The finish of the 1884 Epsom Derby. Harvester (near side) dead-heats with St Gatien. From the Illustrated London News.
context_page_description: Harvester was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. In a career that lasted from 1883 to 1884 he ran thirteen times and won five races. In 1884 he was involved in the second, and most recent dead heat in the history of The Derby. At the end of his racing career, Harvester was sold and exported to stand as a stallion in Austria. He died in 1906 in Hungary.
context_section_description: At Epsom on 28 May, on a "cold and cheerless day", Harvester started at odds of 100/7 in a field of fifteen. He was regarded as his trainer’s third string behind Queen Adelaide, who started 5/2 favourite and St Medard (6/1). Harvester was held up in the early stages before moving into contention as Borneo led the field into the straight. St. Gatien took the lead a quarter of a mile from the finish but was soon joined by Harvester and the two colts were "locked together" throughout the final furlong in a "tremendous race". A hundred yards from the post, St Gatien appeared to have the advantage, but Loates rode a vigorous finish and drove Harvester forward in the last strides. The two leaders crossed the line together, just ahead of Queen Adelaide who finished strongly after being blocked at a crucial stage. The judge was unable to separate Harvester and St. Gatien and a dead heat was called. The common practice at the time was for dead heats to be settled by the two horses immediately running again over the same course, although the prize could be shared if both owners agreed. When St Gatien’s owners offered to divide the stakes, Willoughby and Machell accepted, predictably in view of Harvester’s leg problems.
  Willoughby later made and then withdrew an official objection to St Gatien on a technical point relating to the colt's pedigree.
caption: The finish of the 1884 Derby from the Illustrated London News. Harvester is on the near side
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