Kin set to be King for a day

KRIS KIN has hardly been lauded as one of the great Derby winners but the Epsom hero can prove himself a champion in the King George VI And Queen Elizabeth Diamond Stakes at Ascot today.

Plenty of observers seem obsessed with the three-year-old crop not being up to the standard of the older horses this year, but it’s surely churlish to pick holes in Kris Kin, who has done almost everything asked of him since he stepped foot on the racecourse.

Beaten first time out as a juvenile at Doncaster, he has made rapid progress indeed since then.