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Up for the Derby is a 1933 British sports comedy film directed by Maclean Rogers and starring Sydney Howard, Dorothy Bartlam and Tom Helmore. The screenplay concerns a tramp who unexpectedly gains money.

It was made at British and Dominion Elstree Studios.^[1] The film's sets were designed by the art director Frederick Pusey.

A tramp unexpectedly comes into some money, and buys a racehorse which goes on to win The Derby.

• Sydney Howard as Joe Burton
• Dorothy Bartlam as Dorothy Gordon
• Mark Daly as Jerry Higgs
• Tom Helmore as Ronnie Gordon
• Frederick Lloyd as Major Edwards
• Franklyn Bellamy as Palmer
• Jane Carr as Singer
• Frank Harvey as George Moberley
• Lew Stone and his band as Themselves

• Low, Rachael. Filmmaking in 1930s Britain. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.
• Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927-1939. British Film Institute, 1986.

• Up for the Derby at IMDb