All owners should hope for a moment in the sun but the Derby is a race with a serious purpose, not a fun run
I’m stunned to read in today’s Racing Post that the British Horseracing Authority has no concerns about the no-hoper Diore Lia lining up in Saturday’s Derby. The filly’s owner-breeder, Richard Aylward, is determined to run, to the extent that he has moved her in the last week away from a trainer who thought Diore Lia did not belong in the Epsom Classic.
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