page_title: Richard Vernon (MP)
section_title: Horse Racing
hierarchical_section_title: Richard Vernon (MP) / Horse Racing
caption_attribution_description: Magyar: Az Epsom Derby 1780-as győztese, Diomed
context_page_description: Richard Vernon was a British horse breeder and trainer and a politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1754 and 1790.
context_section_description: Vernon bred and owned a large number of horses. He also trained and raced them, and was one of those who began the running of yearlings at Newmarket. In 1753 he won one of the two Jockey Club Plates, and in 1768 carried off the first Jockey Club Challenge Cup with his Marquis, son of the Godolphin Arabian. At the first Craven meeting, held in 1771, he won the stakes with Pantaloon against a field of thirteen; and his three-year-old Fame by that sire ran second for the first Oaks on 14 May 1779. Diomed, winner of the first Derby came from his stables. In 1787 he won the Oaks with Annette (by Eclipse). He owned Emigrant, winner of the July Stakes in 1796.  He rode himself  and took part in a gentleman-jockey race at Newmarket in 1758. The Jockey Club were his tenants at the old coffee-room at Newmarket. The ground lease was purchased by him in 1771, and bought by the stewards on its expiration sixty years later
caption: Diomed "the Marvel"
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