The Derby is the biggest race of the Flat season and the most important of the British Classics.
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.
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Ezeliya, under jockey Chris Hayes, was an impressive winner of the Group One Oaks at Epsom on Friday.