Editing Slip Anchor (section)

{{Short description|British-bred Thoroughbred racehorse}}

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{{Use British English|date=November 2013}}
{{Infobox racehorse
| horsename = Slip Anchor 
| image_name = [[File:Owner Gillian, Lady Howard de Walden.svg|120px]]
| caption = Racing silks of Lord Howard de Walden
| sire = [[Shirley Heights (horse)|Shirley Heights]]
| grandsire = [[Mill Reef]]
| dam = Sayonara 
| damsire =  Birkhahn
| sex = [[Stallion]]
| foaled = 5 April 1982
| country = Great Britain
| colour = [[Bay (horse)|Bay]]
| breeder = [[John Scott-Ellis, 9th Baron Howard de Walden#Plantation Stud|Plantation Stud]]
| owner = [[John Scott-Ellis, 9th Baron Howard de Walden|Lord Howard de Walden]]
| trainer = [[Henry Cecil]]
| record = 9: 4-3-1
| earnings =  [[Pound sterling|£]]296,722<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pedigreequery.com/slip+anchor |title=Slip Anchor's pedigree and partial racing stats |publisher=Pedigreequery.com |access-date=2013-05-11}}</ref>
| race =  [[Newmarket Stakes|Heathorn Stakes]] (1985)<br>[[Lingfield Derby Trial]] (1985)<br>[[Epsom Derby]] (1985)
| awards= [[Timeform]] rating 136<br>Top-rated European Racehorse (1985)<br>Timeform top-rated racehorse (1985)
| honours =  
| updated= 2 January 2010
}}
'''Slip Anchor''' (1982&ndash;2011) was a British [[Thoroughbred]] [[Horse racing|racehorse]] best known for winning the 1985 [[Epsom Derby]] by seven [[horse length|lengths]]. After showing some promise as a two-year-old, he showed substantial improvement in the spring of 1985, winning the Derby Trial at [[Lingfield Park Racecourse]] by ten lengths before recording a rare start-to-finish win in the Derby. He was rated the best racehorse in Europe in 1985. His subsequent career was disrupted by injury, and he finished second in his other three races before being retired to stud. He had some success as a breeding stallion and died in 2011.

Slip Anchor was the fifth Epsom Derby winner whose sire ([[Shirley Heights (horse)|Shirley Heights]]) and paternal grandsire ([[Mill Reef]]) were themselves winners of Britain's premier classic.