IT is not that long ago that Leopardstown’s Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial was considered to be not only the best Epsom Derby trial in Ireland, but the best Epsom Derby trial anywhere. A Sinndar-Galileo-High Chaparral rat-tat-tat will do that for you.

You would never have believed, after the third of that triumvirate High Chaparral had been led out of Epsom’s winner’s enclosure in 2002, that Leicester would win the Premier League before another Derrinstown winner would follow up in the Derby.