| THEOAKS | British horse race for 3-year-old fillies, run at Epsom in early June (3,4) |
| GEMINIS | For example, picked up skirts - those delivered in early June? (7) |
| OAKS | The ___, horse race for 3-year-old fillies run at Epsom, one of Britain's five Classics (4) |
| STLEGER | Group 1 flat horse race for three-year old colts and fillies run at Doncaster each September (2,5) |
| BELMONT | --- Stakes, horse race for three-year-olds in New York; the third leg of the US Triple Crown (7) |
| CLASSIC | Any of the five principal races for three-year-old horses in Britain (7) |
| 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) |
| BEDTIME | Subject of negotiations with a 3-year-old |
| THEDERBY | Annual horse race for three year-olds (3,5) |
| TODDLER | A three-year-old, for example (7) |
| OVERDUE | Outstanding, like an Italian three-year-old? (7) |
| GOLDENROSE | Rosehill Group 1 race for three-year-olds, ... ... Stakes (6,4) |
| GRANDNATIONAL | 184-year-old British horse race won in 2023 by Irish jockey Derek Fox riding Corach Rambler (5,8) |
| ELMO | 3-year-old TV character voiced by 45-year-old Kevin Clash |
| LIGHTSHIFT | Horse that won the Oaks at Epsom in 2007 (5,5) |
| APOLOGY | Winner of the Oaks Stakes at Epsom Downs in 1874 (7) |
| TURFACCOUNTANT | Person at Epsom in fact can turn out deranged (4,10) |
| COMPOSE | Devise, for a firm at Epsom, modifications (7) |
