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Very unhappy information from the three.10pm race after Tears Of A Clown’s mishap close to the tip of the competition.

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Betfred Sprint Handicap (3.45pm) betting

Silky Wilkie 5/1

Clarendon Home 6/1

Trying For Lynda 13/2

Dream Composer 7/1

Deadly Nymph 8/1

Democracy Dilemma 15/2

Chipstead 10/1

Alligator Alley 14/1

Night time On Earth 16/1

Dwell In The Second 18/1

BAR 28/1 – 14 Runners

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Betfred Sprint Handicap (3.45pm) preview

A 14-runner area for the standard precursor to the Derby following the scratching of One Night time Stand, which is the smallest for 21 years. There are nonetheless greater than sufficient prospects to maintain type college students busy for a lot of hours, nonetheless, and massive outsiders together with The Bell Conductor, at 33-1, go to submit with a sensible each-way likelihood. For win functions, although, I’m with Dream Composer at round 8-1, because the type of his newest slim defeat at Goodwood seems as stable as something on provide and Joe Leavy’s 5lb declare might make all of the distinction in a decent end.

SELECTION: DREAM COMPOSER

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Betfred Sprint Handicap (3.45pm) market mover

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Aidan O’Brien, who leaves no stone unturned, with the Directions (Half One) for a few his Derby jockeys …

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Betfred 3-Y-O Sprint Handicap (3.10pm) outcome

1 Blue Storm (Rossa Ryan) 8-12 Sturlasson (Oisin Murphy) 7-13 Due For Luck (Jason Hart) 6-14 Enchanting (Hollie Doyle) 20-119 ranAlso: 9-2 Fav GrandladNon Runner: 13

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Up to date at 10.28 EDT

Betfred 3-Y-O Sprint Handicap (3.10pm)

They usually’re off … zoom … that is going to be fast (that is the quickest 5 furlongs on the planet) so excuse the sparse description … Grandlad is up there early … Mc Loven is quick away … Blue Storm takes the lead down the centre and holds off the late problem of Sturlasson.

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Betfred 3-Y-O Sprint Handicap (3.10pm) market mover

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Betfred 3-Y-O Sprint Handicap (3.10pm) betting

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Greg Wooden

Betfred 3-Y-O Sprint Handicap (3.10pm) preview

The three-year-old model of the annual headlong cost down the straight five-furlong course that follows at 3.45, and scarcely a reputation among the many 19 runners that may be dominated out with full confidence. For essentially the most half, although, most of those are a very good deal extra uncovered than many three-year-olds at this stage of the marketing campaign, and one of many few with solely a handful of begins to their title is Grandlad, the slim favorite. He took his file to 2-from-4 with a slim win at Goodwood final weekend and the shape was backed up by a powerful time determine, and so he’s in all probability the most secure possibility in a desperately troublesome occasion.

SELECTION: GRANDLAD

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Diomed Stakes (2.35pm) outcome

1 Royal Scotsman (J P Spencer) 17-22 Royal Dubai (Oisin Murphy) 6-13 Highland Avenue (W Buick) 7-2 Jt Fav8 ran

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Diomed Stakes (2.35pm)

They usually’re off … Royal Scotsman units off within the lead and goes a quick tempo … Regal Actuality is on the again … Royal Scotsman kicks clear … can he maintain on? Sure he can! A straightforward winner!! That was the story of the race. A horse again to type and he’ll win higher races now he’s again on tune. Ran a terrific race within the 2,000 Guineas final yr and has not had the rub of the inexperienced since. Nice to see.

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Up to date at 09.45 EDT

Market mover for two.35pm race

Highland Avenue 6/1 into 7/2

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Greg Wooden

Diomed Stakes preview

This isn’t usually one of many season’s higher Group Three occasions and the truth that final yr’s 1-2 – the now nine-year-old Regal Actuality and six-year-old Highland Avenue – are again for an additional crack tells a story concerning the newest renewal, however there may be at the very least an attention-grabbing new opponent in Roger Varian’s Embesto. He was a bit disappointing on his seasonal debut at Newmarket final month however stays with potential after simply half a dozen begins and races in a hood for the primary time right here. It might show to be the making of him, however for now, I’ll take the confirmed course type of Highland Avenue to prevail.

SELECTION: HIGHLAND AVENUE

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Up to date at 09.18 EDT

Diomed Stakes (2.35pm) betting

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Princess Elizabeth Stakes (2pm) outcome

1 Breege (Jason Hart) 5-12 Stylish Colombine (W Buick) 11-43 Royal Costume (B M Coen) 14-18 ranAlso: 13-8 Fav Working Lion, 66-1 Julia Augusta 4thNon Runner: 7

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Princess Elizabeth Stakes (2pm)

They usually’re off … Julia Augusta leads within the early levels … tempo fairly nippy this time … Astral Beau is second and Working Lion poised in third … the favorite went for a daring run up the rail however didn’t have the ending kick … it’s a bunched end and they’re everywhere however Breege holds on. What a large number of a race.

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Princess Elizabeth Stakes (2pm) betting

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There’s an election on and Priti Patel MP is on the Derby – if she loses her Witham constituency (majority 24,000) on July 4th the Conservative occasion will probably be extinct!

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Greg Wooden

Princess Elizabeth Stakes (2pm) preview

It must be mentioned that the Derby’s undercard is considerably … properly, underwhelming when set towards many different big-race days, each right here and around the globe. That mentioned, this Group Three is a good race of its kind, and includes a favorite in Working Lion who has proven occasional glimpses of potential Group One-winning type at varied factors in her profession. Her strike-rate, although, looks like it’s not fairly what it ought to be – she is winless in 5 begins since Might 2023 – and personally I’d need to see a bit extra earlier than stepping in to again her at round 2-1. As a substitute, I’ll take her on with a 12-1 likelihood in David Loughnane’s Sparks Fly, a prolific handicapper final yr with the potential for additional progress at 4 and never a lot to search out with the favorite on rankings, though it must be mentioned that drying floor shouldn’t be essentially ultimate.

SELECTION: SPARKS FLY

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Market mover for 2pm race …

Astral Beau 9-1 into 7–1

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Lester Piggott Handicap (1.25pm) outcome

1 Persica (S M Levey) 9-22 Portsmouth (Oisin Murphy) 5-2 Fav3 Redhot Whisper (Jack Gilligan) 28-112 ran

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Lester Piggott Handicap (1.25pm)

They usually’re off … Blake was slowly away and Persica leads … nevertheless it’s a sluggish tempo and the sector is bunched up … Golden West is up there at Tattenham Nook … Portsmouth is getting by way of on the rail … however is being fought off and Persica wins … a tremendous front-running trip from Sean Levey.

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Lester Piggott Handicap (1.25pm) betting

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Lester Piggott Handicap (1.25pm) preview

Greg Wooden

A tough little handicap to kick off proceedings on Derby day, named to honour a rider who knew rode this distinctive monitor higher than anybody earlier than or since. Course type is at all times price marking up at Epsom and Portsmouth is certainly one of simply two runners within the area – Golden West is the opposite – with a earlier win on the monitor, having registered a really comfy win on the April assembly off a mark of 74. He’s 9lb larger at this time, having completed a tremendous second on heavy floor at Goodwood in early Might, however has apparent prospects of a return to the winner’s enclosure again on a greater floor at this time.

SELECTION: PORTSMOUTH

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Listed here are the Oddschecker best-supported horses of the day to this point …and Metropolis of Troy is amongst them!

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The Racing TV panel on the channel have simply said Metropolis Of Troy “is unquestionably not price backing at 7-2”. That was recorded earlier this week and now the favorite is 11-4 in locations! Probably the most well-known British Fats race this yr revolves round one horse: if Metropolis Of Troy comes again to his finest type from final season he wins but when he runs like he did within the 2,000 Guineas when he flopped so badly then it’s the tip of one other likelihood for the Aidan O’Brien operation to say they’ve a real racing nice of their yard. Don’t neglect his homeowners final yr talked about the colt in the identical breath as Frankel.

One of many causes Metropolis Of Troy didn’t deal with the Guineas check at Newmarket was the truth that he boiled over at first. My colleague Greg Wooden reported final evening that O’Brien said he’s not going to take any particular measures with the horse whereas there’s one other level to think about. The BestofBets.com folks remind me in a missive that ‘Along with a really poor run within the Guineas, the favorite for at this time’s Epsom Derby must overcome the ‘coffin field’ draw of stall one.’ Timeform did their evaluation and concluded that “the info suggests there may be advantage within the view {that a} low draw is extra of a hindrance than a assist.” It’s a difficult head scratcher for backers.

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Good afternoon. Prepare for the same old rollercoaster Derby up and across the well-known Epsom Downs. The traditions are a part of what makes this occasion so particular and we’re going to begin with the annual tip on the Amato pub close to the monitor. Beware, the previous couple of years haven’t precisely been bursting with winners … together with in 2023. This yr it’s the Guardian’s tip, Los Angeles!

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Preamble

Greg Wooden

Good afternoon from Epsom on the primary Saturday in June, which might solely imply that tens of 1000’s of racing followers are converging on the Surrey downs for the 245th working of the Derby, the world’s most well-known Basic.

Exactly what number of tens of 1000’s is difficult to say, not least as a result of the Hill enclosure – which the monitor describes because the “beating coronary heart of the Derby Pageant” stays arguably one of the best free sporting time out anyplace on the planet. However the paid attendance took a big hit final yr, from 37,274 to 25,413, one thing that appears to have been barely misplaced amid the deal with makes an attempt by animal rights protestors to disrupt the large race.

Jockey Membership Racecourses, which can also be dealing with critical struggles to take care of the attendance figures at Cheltenham and Aintree within the spring, is not going to need to see the numbers at its different massive occasion heading in the identical path.

There may be at the very least no rain forecast at Epsom at this time, which can properly encourage some walk-ups, and the large race – due off at 4.30pm – has a number of attention-grabbing plotlines, together with a juvenile champion with one thing to show in Metropolis Of Troy and a reside runner for 91-year-old proprietor Invoice Gredley in Ambiente Pleasant.

Metropolis Of Troy, who ran a shocker at odds-on within the 2,000 Guineas final time, appeared to be dealing with a critical problem on the prime of the market yesterday night however has put a long way between himself and the remainder within the betting this morning at round 3-1.

That displays a scarcity of market confidence behind his steady companion at Aidan O’Brien’s yard, Los Angeles, who’s out to 13-2, and in addition a drift on Historical Knowledge, the six-length runner-up behind Economics within the Dante Stakes, out to 6-1. Ambiente Pleasant, the Lingfield trial winner, is 15-2, whereas Macduff, second within the Sandown Basic Trial in April, is heading the opposite means, at round 9-1 from 12-1 in a single day.

The going at Epsom is good-to-soft, good in locations after a dry evening, and can proceed to dry because the day goes on if the forecast is right. My ideas concerning the doubtless winner are right here, and in case you have not simply determined to drop all the pieces and head to Epsom, you possibly can, as at all times, observe all of the information and developments forward of the large race proper right here on the weblog.

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Up to date at 07.27 EDT