THURSDAY was spent re-arranging the jigsaw that is the Derby picture; taking three of the four corner pieces that you had in place and realising that they weren’t the corner pieces at all.

US Army Ranger scrambled home in the Chester Vase from his stable companion Port Douglas as the pair of them pulled seven lengths clear of their four other rivals, and the market wasn’t impressed. The Galileo colt, who had started the day as the 3/1 and 4/1 Derby favourite, ended it an 11/2 shot.