Relief the dominant emotion for vindicated O'Brien after City Of Troy triumph

The master of Ballydoyle in 'no doubt' City Of Troy is the best of his 10 Derby winners

DERBY KING: Trainer Aidan O'Brien celebrates with wife Ann Marie and daughter Ana after City Of Troy and Ryan Moore gave him his 10th Epsom Derby. Picture: Healy Racing

Four of the last six, five of the last eight, eight of the last 13, and a record 10 in all. Aidan O’Brien’s Derby credentials were never in doubt, but those of City Of Troy certainly were prior to Saturday’s scintillating display at Epsom.

O’Brien insisted the colt’s flop in the Newmarket 2000 Guineas was an aberration, primarily of the trainer’s own making, but that self-deprecation doesn’t usually wash in this industry.