Camelot battles to Derby double

Camelot duly kept his unbeaten record intact — his score is now five from five — in Saturday evening’s Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby at the Curragh, but this was a classic which could be best described as a damp squib.

We already knew he was miles clear off all other three-year-olds anyway and not even the horrendous surface was enough to enable four modest opponents to lay a real glove on Joseph O’Brien’s mount.

Seven were due to face the starter, but Camelot’s stable companion, Imperial Monarch, and Dermot Weld’s Speaking Of Which failed to meet the engagement, both because of ground conditions.