A son of the 1997 brilliant Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe winner Peintre Celebre, Petara Bay was purchased for 340,000 guineas as a yearling at the 2005 Tattersalls October Sale, Newmarket. The well-bred colt is out of Musidora Stakes heroine Magnificient Style and a half-brother to Group One Fillies’ Mile heroine Playful Act as well as Group Two winners Echoes In Eternity and Percussionist (who also finished fourth to North Light in the 2004 Vodafone Derby). Making his debut over, a mile at Chepstow on September 7 last year, Petara Bay trailed home a disappointing 10th behind Hearthstead Maison, but that run was soon forgotten at Haydock 16 days later, when he recorded a decisive two and a half length victory from 13 rivals. Pitched into Group One company in the Racing Post Trophy at Newbury the following month, Petara Bay was unable to cope with the heavy conditions, finishing in arrears behind Authorized. He made a successful start to his three-year-old career with a battling head defeat of Salford Mill in the nine-furlong Listed Feilden Stakes at Newmarket on April 18, although he ran below par in the Group Three Betfredpoker Classic Trial at Sandown 10 days later over an extra furlong, beating only one home behind Regime.

Race Record: Runs: 5; Wins: 2; 2nd: 0; 3rd: 0; Win & Place Prize Money: £20,432

Slavica Ecclestone
Slavica Ecclestone, a Croatian former fashion model, is the wife of Formula One mogul Bernie Ecclestone. The pair met in 1984 when Slavica was working at a Formula One promotional event. The couple have two daughters, Tamara and Petra. Slavica was born in 1958 in the former Yugoslavia and started modelling in the 1970s for Zagreb magazine Start. The 6 foot 2 inch model, who has worked for a number of leading designers including Armani, also owns her own promotion company. The Sunday Times Rich List 2007 placed the Ecclestones as the 20th richest persons in Britain, worth an estimated £2.25 billion.

Vodafone Derby Record: No previous runners

Terry Mills
Terry Mills, who was born on November 9, 1938, has held a licence to train only since 1993, but he had been involved in racing as an owner for many years before that with useful winners like Our Freddie and My Louie. He took over the licence at Loretta Lodges Stables at Headley, just a few miles down the road from Epsom Downs, from Wally Carter. Before that Mills had been involved on a full-time basis with the family firm of A & J Bull, one of the biggest waste management/demolition companies in the country. He bought his first lorry when demobbing from the army aged 22 and had a fleet of 150 by the time he sold A & J Bull to a Belgian rival. The family still has the demolition company Goodman Price and Taurus Waste Recycling. The best winner Mills has enjoyed as a trainer came when Where Or When won the 2002 Group One Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at Ascot, with his previous top success having come when Bobzao won the Hardwicke Stakes at Royal Ascot in 1994. Mills enjoyed another big-race success at Royal Ascot in 2002 when Norton belied his odds of 25/1 to score by half a length from Invader in the Royal Hunt Cup and Close To You dead-heated in the 2005 Group Two Champagne Stakes at Doncaster. Mills is aiming to become the first Epsom trainer to send out a winner of the Vodafone Derby at Epsom Downs since April The Fifth won for Tom Walls in 1932. Mills is a great Frank Sinatra fan and many horses he has owned take their name from the songs of old blue eyes. Mills is assisted by his son Robert and also Richard Ryan. He also has Kid Mambo as an intended starter in the 2007 Vodafone Derby.