Fast ground for the Classic will be a new test for Sir Dragonet, who has had ease in the ground for two races so far
My first confident assertion of Derby week is that Sir Dragonet is not going to get the same ground on which he was so impressive at Chester. Weather-related predictions are, um, not exactly danger-free but we’re only five days from the greatest Classic and there is no sign of the precipitation that would surely help the favourite.
“The only threat of rain I can see in the forecast just now is in the next 48 hours,” Epsom’s clerk, Andrew Cooper, told me this morning. “It’s really confined to Tuesday afternoon and is expected to be showery in nature, so it’s hit and miss.
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