IT is difficult to remember a Derby in which the picture has been in such a state of flux just two weeks out. Few of the trials have gone the way that the market expected, and the two horses that top the market are both quoted ‘with a run’.

No horse has really grabbed the race. US Army Ranger had his chance but he wasn’t impressive in winning the Chester Vase. Midterm had his chance but he was well beaten in the Dante and is now in a race against time to get there.