Gimli’s Rock our best chance of a weekend winner

The Derby festival is one of those racing weekends that you really look forward to and it’s no different this year.

As ever, for the organisers and the public, you want the weather to stay nice because that really does make a big difference. If they get it, they’ll get great crowds. There’ll be plenty of glamour but there’ll be brilliant racing too.

People will say that the Derby isn’t as good as it might have been with the first three from Epsom staying at home but it’s still the Derby. Whatever happens, it’s still a hard race to win.