Daedalus (or Dædalus) was a bay horse bred by his owner Lord Grosvenor from his mare Flyer, who had previously produced the 1790 Derby winner Rhadamanthus.
[3] The Duke of Bedford's Leon was the 4/5 favourite, with Lord Egremont's unnamed Highflyer colt (later named Ragged Jack[4]) the 2/1 second choice and Daedalus starting at odds of 6/1.
[5] Daedalus gave his owner a third Derby win in five years, while Buckle was recording the second of his five victories.
Daedalus started favourite at odds of 4/6, but finished second at level weight to Mr Wilson's colt Bennington.
He does not appear in any lists of stallions and has no progeny recorded in the General Stud Book which noted that he had been "sent to Russia.