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Any thoughts for an each way bet today on the Derby?
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Everhelpful , I wish I could do straight forecasts like that ! You picked the two nice runners that were certain to get the trip, just as the Oaks winner yesterday was (her mother, her grandmother, and her great grandmother, who won the Oaks, all won good races of the Oaks distance; just a clue as to what she would do). Why people, year on year, make hot favourites, in the Derby and Oaks, of runners that have won the Guineas is a mystery, but it makes bookmakers happy. It's won comfortably over a flat straight mile, where runners bowl along, so it must be able to handle, a few weeks later, a testing mile and a half on a U shaped track with steep changes of gradient, where runners have to keep changing pace, and win again. Well, that makes sense! Nobody asks what's in its bloodline apart from the obligatory Derby winner or what its style or character of running is.