THE apparently ubiquitous, and seemingly ever prosperous, “each-way thieves” must have been licking their collective lips at the prospect of a Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby at the Curragh today with eight or nine runners and an odds-on chance in Jack Hobbs.

That one has the best claims judged on his second to super-fast timer Golden Horn at York then Epsom but has shown slight waywardness and may be worth taking on.