Reach For The Moon, the Queen’s main contender for the Derby at Epsom on Platinum Jubilee weekend, will miss the Classic after failing to recover in time from an injury sustained on the gallops last autumn.
John Gosden’s colt was installed as one of the favourites for the Derby on 4 June after winning the Solario Stakes at Sandown Park last August. He then went down to a narrow defeat in the Group Two Champagne Stakes at Doncaster in September, and was reported to have sustained an injury on 29 September that would rule him out for the remainder of 2021 but was not thought likely to prevent him running in 2022.
