Oxx can empathise with the pressure Camelot team is under

He may be attempting to burst the balloon in Saturday night’s Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby, but John Oxx can empathise with the pressure Camelot’s connections are under ahead of the Classic.

The Ballydoyle colt has been victorious in both the Newmarket 2000 Guineas and Epsom Derby, and looks destined for a tilt at the Doncaster St Leger that would secure a first Triple Crown since Nijinsky in 1970.

Oxx had his own prodigy in Sea The Stars, who also managed the English 2000 Guineas/Derby double in 2009 before concluding a career that included six Group 1s by winning the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe.