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.
Real Madrid will face Borussia Dortmund in the Champions League final this evening.
Two-time Tour de France winner Jonas Vingegaard, who was seriously injured in a horrific crash eight weeks ago, was notably absent from Denmark's Olympic selection presented on Saturday."It's a new step for him, and now it's starting to look like normal training," he told daily B.T. Heemskerk did not say whether Vingegaard would be in shape in time to compete in the Tour de France. po/dmc