Lambourn wins the 2025 Derby in dominant fashion: horse racing – as it happened

Lambourn provided Aidan O’Brien with his 11th victory in the Derby when making almost all the running in the Epsom showpiece

3.30pm The Derby preview

Our detailed runner-by-runner guide to the big race is here, and a preview of all of today’s ITV Racing coverage is here, but in summary, I’m not at all convinced that Ruling Court, the 2,000 Guineas winner, will get home over 12 furlongs, and also a little sceptical about the strength of the Leopardstown trial won by Delacroix, or whether this step up in trip is what he needs. Lambourn’s defeat of Lazy Griff in the 12-furlong Chester Vase could seem ever more significant if the rain arrives, and the French-bred Midak, unbeaten in three, is also likely to appreciate 12 furlongs on an easy surface, while Stanhope Gardens has taken an unconventional route to Epsom but if Ralph Beckett thinks he deserves to be in the field, he probably does. The Dante form won by Beckett’s Pride Of Arras, with Damysus, Nightwalker and The Lion In Winter in behind, strikes me as potentially the strongest on offer though, and while Damysus and Nightwalker both have potential to improve on their York form, that applies equally – in fact, arguably more so, to the twice-raced PRIDE OF ARRAS. Continue reading...