Who are your top 3 english Derby winners over the last 50 years?

Question

My top 3

1 Sea Bird

2 Nijinsky

3 Mill Reef

Answer 1

So Hard to choose 3, but they would be:-

1970 .....     Nijinsky  (who went on to sire 3 future Derby winners

                  1982 Golden Fleece,1986 Sharastani 1995 Lammtarra)

                            

1981 .....     Shergar - who knows what he would have achieved  

2001 .....     Galileo sire of this years Derby winner New Approach

Answer 2

1 .Nijinsky ~ IMO the greatest of all

2. Roberto (great race, who can forget him just getting his head in front to beat Rheingold.

3. Mill Reef (What a race that would have been if the great Brigadier Gerard had entered.

All from the seventies ~ a time when racehorses  raced against each other regulary and went on to run as four year olds. These days it seems as if they run once or twice as two year olds then the Derby as a three year old and then retire (probably before they can be found wanting and lower their stud value)