The pride of Britain could be restored by a horse called Pride Of Arras. Just when our inferiority complex at Aidan O’Brien’s total domination of the Derby trials was becoming overwhelming, along comes a home-trained, home-owned, home-bred colt to beat the Ballydoyle maestro’s most favoured horse of all.
The Lion In Winter was 3-1 Derby favourite on Thursday morning and backed down to odds-on to win the Dante Stakes, long billed as the most important of Derby trials.
True, his trainer had warned that the horse was some way short of fitness in his first race since winning here last August. True also, that The Lion In Winter pulled much too hard and in finishing sixth was still only four lengths off the winner. But
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