Big race rides are nothing new to Pat Smullen, but going to Epsom with a live chance in a classic is not exactly something that comes around every day. DECLAN COLLEY spoke to him about his prospects.

ROYAL DEVOTION, trained by Michael Halford for Michael O’Leary’s Gigginstown House Stud, sprang the biggest shock on a day of surprises at Galway yesterday when landing the listed Ardilaun House Hotel Oyster Stakes.