Jubilee: Dunfermline and Aureole the stars; To celebrate the Golden Jubilee, John Randall looks back on the Queen's fluctuating fortunes as a racehorse owner.(Sports)

From: The Racing Post (London, England) | Date: June 3, 2002 | Copyright information

Byline: John Randall All The Queen's horses

THE two best horses the Queen has ever owned are Aureole and Dunfermline, the only two undisputed champions among her many big-race winners.

The highly strung Aureole came closest to fulfilling her ambition of winning the Derby.

He was good enough to have won many of the 50 renewals of the race run during his owner's reign, but in the week of her Coronation in 1953 he was unlucky to come up against the gr...

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