IT’S some Betfred Derby. Myriad questions, far greater in quantity, probably, than the number of answers that will be forthcoming. Maybe it’s always thus.

This stage of the season, just into the first throes of June, the best middle-distance three-year-olds, mere adolescents really, going head-to-head-to-head on a roller coaster baize that tests every characteristic that a top-class thoroughbred should possess.