AN interesting Twitter thread this week posed the question “what would you miss most if things went back to “how they used to be”. One answer amusing was – “not knowing the answer to everything.”! I’m not sure though if even Google or ChatGPT could tell us with any certainty who will win today’s Derby at Epsom.

For a classic that was supposed to traditionally shape the breed, this year’s Derby has a strange look to it. The cream comes to the top and, as we have seen in jump racing, that cream tends to settle among the bigger stables. Mullins, Henderson, Elliott, de Bromhead – the bulk of your Cheltenham winners in recent times have come from there.