| OAKS | Annual flat horse race for three-year-old fillies run at Epsom |
| STLEGER | Group 1 flat horse race for three-year old colts and fillies run at Doncaster each September (2,5) |
| THEDERBY | Annual flat horse race (3,5) |
| THEOAKS | British horse race for 3-year-old fillies, run at Epsom in June (3,4) |
| DERBY | Cheese sometimes flavoured with sage; gin cocktail with peach and mint; or, a flat race for three-year-old horses such as that run at the Epsom Downs (5) |
| AUSTRALIANOAKS | Randwick Group 1 race for 3-year-old fillies (10,4) |
| KENTUCKYDERBY | Annual race for three-year old horses held at Churchill Downs, Louisville (8,5) |
| CLASSIC | Any of the five principal British flat races for three-year-old horses (the 1000 Guineas, 2000 Guineas, Derby, Oaks, and St Leger) (7) |
| BELMONT | --- Stakes, horse race for three-year-olds in New York; the third leg of the US Triple Crown (7) |
| EBOR | _ Handicap, flat horse race run at York every August (4) |
| SUSSEX | ...... Stakes, Group 1 flat horse race held at Goodwood (6) |
| AYRGOLDCUP | Annual flat race that takes place in Scotland in September, originally run at Belleisle in 1804 |
| DERBYDAY | Time for a three-year-old race (5,3) |
| STEEPLECHASE | Non-flat horse race (12) |
| FINALLYFOUR | Like a three-year-old after a tough year, to Mom? |
| CLASSICS | Events for three-year-olds in form one starts with cardboard and scissors? (8) |
| ELMO | 3-year-old TV character voiced by 45-year-old Kevin Clash |
| ARMANI | Giorgio ___, Italian fashion designer who studied medicine at the University of Milan for three years |
| RIPON | Cathedral city in North Yorkshire whose racecourse hosted Britain's first horse race for female jock |
| MAIDENVOYAGE | First time out in horse race for those hoping to make the trip (6,6) |
