WHILE everyone agreed that it was the most open Investec Derby for many years, no one could quite foresee an outcome involving a virtually unconsidered 40/1 shot.

Yet that is what transpired at Epsom on Saturday as Aidan O’Brien’s Wings Of Eagles, ridden by Padraig Beggy, surged down the outside to land the great prize, just as stable companion Cliffs Of Moher was being called home.