Epsom Downs Racecourse the suffragette Emily Davison threw herself in front of King George V's horse Anmer, bringing him down. Davison was badly injured and died four days later. In 1952 the racecourse was featured extensively in the film "Derby Day" set around the 1952 Epsom Derby. In 2009 the racecourse opened the new Duchess's Stand. It has a capacity of 11,000 and has a 960 m² (10 000 sq ft) hall. It can be used for banqueting, conferences and exhibitions. The estimated cost of the new stand, which was built by Willmott Dixon, was £23.5 million. On 4 June 2011, in their
Statue of Millicent Fawcett The memorial was unveiled on 24 April 2018. The bronze statue portrays Millicent Fawcett at the age of 50, when she became president of the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS). The figure holds a banner reading , an extract from a speech Fawcett gave in 1920, seven years after the death of the suffragette Emily Wilding Davison. Fawcett was rather critical of Davison's actions in 1913, shortly after the latter's death (which was probably an accident caused by a failure to realise the speed – 40 mph or more – of a racing horse, and the subsequent danger