SATURDAY’S Investec Derby answered many of the pre-race questions that needed to be answered, but it also posed a few new ones. That’s what Epsom’s Derbys do. That’s why they fascinate so much.

Masar was the best horse in the race on the day. That was the main question answered. William Buick always appeared to be happy on the Charlie Appleby-trained colt, to have him in the position in which he wanted him, and he stayed on as well, as his pedigree suggested he would, to run out an emphatic Derby winner.