HISTORY, not to mention common sense, dictates that when you have a bunched finish in a classic there probably was not a superstar on show. “They can’t all be good” as the saying goes.

You will not find many classic finishes more bunched than the 2019 Investec Derby at Epsom on Saturday, with a few pixels separating second to fifth, all of those horses just half a length behind Anthony Van Dyck.