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Tony Paley, with Greg Wood at Epsom

The Derby: Auguste Rodin gives O’Brien ninth win in Epsom showpiece – as it happened

Ryan Moore leads Auguste Rodin home in front of King of Steel.
Ryan Moore leads Auguste Rodin home in front of King of Steel. Photograph: Matthew Childs/Action Images/Reuters

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So long from Epsom ... and from Frankie (at the Derby)

Well that was a very strange Derby day but I do think we saw a good winner in Auguste Rodin, who had top-class form as a two-year-old and returned to his best after a blip in the Guineas when he got clattered into by his stablemate and was well beaten. I am looking forward to the 5.35pm race at Royal Ascot (the Golden Gates Stakes) on the final day on Saturday when Torito, who won the Lester Piggott Handicap today, will win his next race (you read it here first). What I don’t look forward to is Epsom – and the Derby – without Frankie Dettori. His final mount in the Derby, Arrest, looked all at sea but he did have a winner on the day in the shape of Prosperous Voyage and he did leave us with a trademark flying dismount. We will not see his like again in our lifetime I suspect.

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