festival started today with "the oaks", the feature race for ladies day, won by forever together. the two—day event is the biggest annual gathering of people in surrey, culminating in tomorrow's derbya orchard has more. oks day at epsom. the festival sta rts oks day at epsom. the festival starts with ladies' day with plenty of race goers arriving hours in advance. meanwhile many stars of the show enjoyed a cooling bath behind the scene, and after recent heavily vain they would be in for a tough work out. never stop watcher the weather we were glad to avoid the showers yesterday because the racecourse would have taken it but it would have been softer ground, and in flat—racing terms it is soft enough as soft, good to soft places. the derby festival is the largest gathering of people in surrey, and after those highly publicised outbreak of violence at goodwood and ascot, there is a big focus on how this event is conducting its security and policing. our planning for the derby festival takes months and months and we work with police to make sure we have the right level of security measures in place, visitors to the racecourse will see a highly visible security presence, search propert

festival. jockey donnacha rode the filly home for his father, trainer aiden o'brien. but with the derby thanjust the racing to consider for event organisers, as sara orchard reports. the festival starts with ladies day, with plenty of racegoers arriving hours in advance of the action to pitch prime spots on the famous course. meanwhile, many stars of the show enjoyed a cooling bath behind the scenes, and after recent heavy rain they would all be in for a tough work—out. never stop watching the weather, especially in thisjob, we are glad to avoid showers yesterday, because the racecourse would have taken it, but it would have been much softer ground than it is, and in flat racing terms, it's soft enough as soft. the derby festival is the largest gathering of people in surrey, and after the highly publicised outbreaks of violence of both goodwood and ascot, there is a big focus on how this event is going to conduct security and police. 0ur planning for the festival takes month to month that we work with the police in order to make sure we have the right level of security measures in place