COMMON consensus is that the Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial is the best Irish trial for the Epsom Derby (the clue is in the title), but it isn’t.

There have been nine Irish-trained Epsom Derby winners since the turn of the millennium (also nine since Secreto beat El Gran Senor in 1984), and still just three of them, the first three, Sinndar, Galileo and High Chaparral, ran in the Derrinstown trial.