Masar has an excellent chance to end the poor record of recent Derby winners with victory in the Princess Of Wales’s Stakes at Newmarket
The last four winners of the Derby at Epsom have managed only a single victory between them in six subsequent starts, when Harzand followed up in the Irish equivalent in June 2016. Masar (3.35), though, has an excellent chance to end the three-year drought in the Princess Of Wales’s Stakes at Newmarket on Thursday.
Masar was a busy juvenile, with five starts in three countries including a trip to the Breeders’ Cup at Del Mar, and maintained his work-rate in the first part of his three-year-old campaign, when he won the Derby on his fourth outing. But a leg injury then kept him off the track for 385 days, before his return at Royal Ascot last month when a bad stumble almost dislodged James Doyle just after the start.
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