DOUBLE Trigger, one of Britain's great stayers on the Flat in recent years, is honoured in The Double Trigger Maiden Stakes at Redcar on Monday, when the seven-race programme starts at 2pm.
A contest for two-year-olds over nine furlongs, the race is supported by The European Breeders Fund.
It is the equivalent race won by Double Trigger on his racecourse debut in 1993, when he broke the track record for a juvenile over that distance - a record which still stands - winning by ten lengths at 14-1.
Trained at Middleham by Mark Johnston, Double Trigger won 14 of his 29 races, 12 of which were Group races, becoming the first horse for more than 150 years to win the Doncaster Cup on three occasions (1995, 1996 and 1998).
The opening race, a contest for two-year-old maiden fillies, is also supported by The European Breeders Fund, while the most valuable race of the afternoon - The Constant Security Rated Stakes - is sponsored by the company which performs the security duties at Redcar and several other racecourses.
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