On top of a desperately poor run in the Guineas, the uneasy favourite for today’s Epsom Derby – City of Troy, last year’s champion two-year-old – will have to overcome the ‘coffin box’ draw of stall one. Only Adayar (2021) and Oath (1999) have won from that stall since starting stalls were introduced in 1967.
The Derby is the biggest race of the Flat season and the most important of the British Classics.
Ezeliya, under jockey Chris Hayes, was an impressive winner of the Group One Oaks at Epsom on Friday.
It may not have quite been the result they were hoping for but the King and Queen spent the afternoon at Epsom on Friday to see their second ever Classic runner, Treasure, challenge in the Betfred Oaks.