If Roger Varian decides not to run Kingston Hill in this evening’s Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby at the Curragh then that will obviously rob the race of much of its interest.

Izzi Top, confidently handled by jockey-in-form William Buick, brushed aside the challenge of favourite Sapphire to give trainer John Gosden a third win in the Group 1 Barclays Bank Ireland Pretty Polly Stakes at the Curragh yesterday.

Aidan O’Brien has expressed concern about the likely heavy surface for Camelot in the Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby at the Curragh tonight, but it is still difficult to envisage defeat for a colt who is unbeaten in four races.