Epsom Downs Racecourse the turf. In the summer of 1779 Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby, organised a race for himself and his friends to race their three-year-old fillies. He named it the Oaks after his nearby estate. The race became so successful that in the following year 1780 a new race was added for three-year old colts and fillies—-the Derby. In 1784 the course was extended to its current distance of a mile and a half and Tattenham Corner was introduced. Henry Dorling, step-father to cookery writer Mrs Beeton, was a Clerk of the Course at Epsom, appointed in 1840. In 1913
Signpost Corner, Isle of Man a light on above an individual competitor’s scoreboard which would indicate to the pit-crew and race-officials that a particular rider had passed through Signpost Corner and may be shortly pulling into the race-pits located at the Grandstand on Glencrutchery Road to refuel. Located nearby to the former signal station at the Signpost road junction is Bedstead Corner on the (A18) Bemahague Road section of the Isle of Man TT Mountain Course. The origin of the name is disputed and uncertain along with its exact former location. George MacDonald Fraser, author of the Flashman series of books, lived on the Isle