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.
Juventus, Real Madrid and Barcelona had been pushing for a replacement competition to the Uefa Champions League