St James’s Palace Stakes (Group 1)

CIRCUS Maximus became the second Derby failure to win this prestigious prize in the last decade by following on from Dawn Approach in 2013. Supplemented at a cost of £45,000 for the race, Circus Maximus, under Ryan Moore, led just after the quarter-mile pole, and fought off the challenge of Too Darn Hot before he was challenged again by that colt’s stablemate King of Comedy.