Serpentine’s runaway win at Epsom on Saturday left some riders with red faces, but William Hill described the result as possibly the greatest ever in the race’s 240-year history
Before getting too disappointed, frustrated or downright angry about what was surely the strangest Derby, in every way, that any of us will ever witness, it is worth stopping for a moment to recall that, back in April, it was odds-against to be run at all, at Epsom or anywhere else. Now, 240 years after the first running in 1780, the line remains unbroken and the 2017 foal crop has its Derby winner.
And, who knows, Serpentine may yet prove to be the best three‑year-old colt of his generation, and not just a very decent one who was gifted many lengths by the riders on better horses, which then proved impossible to retrieve. Few, though, would bet on it, even at Saturday’s starting price of 25-1.
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