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We might be getting Greg Wood’s race-by-race information right through the morning however right here’s a rundown of the motion it is possible for you to to look from Epsom this afternoon:
1.30pm Nyetimber Listed Surrey Stakes, 7f, 3yo
2.05pm Betfred British EBF Woodcote Stakes, 6f, 2yo
2.40pm Betfred (Group One) Coronation Cup, 1m4f, 4yo+
3.15pm Betfred Nifty 50 Handicap, 1m2f, 4yo+
4.00pm Betfred (Group One) Oaks, 1m4f, 3yo fillies
4.35pm Trustatrader Handicap, 1m½f, 4yo+
Epsom have long past with a little bit drum and bass of their promotional video for the Derby assembly however for purchasing down with the children you’ll’t beat the United Kingdom Garage statement particular launched a couple of years again …
It’s too darn dangerous in the event you fancy the Charles Hills-trained runner within the 2.05pm race these days because it received’t be turning up. Here are your non-runners for Epsom this afternoon:
2.05pm Betfred British EBF Woodcote Stakes
8 Too Darn Good
4.35pm Trustatrader Handicap
10 Obelix
After a spring as dry as the general public can keep in mind all of sudden this week other folks had been speaking about attritional scenes at Epsom or even suggesting the scary ‘heavy’ may well be within the description for the Derby competition assembly with quite a few rain in some forecasts. There is extra precipitation coming in a single day and the following day so get your macs and brollies on the in a position ( whisper it however clerk of the path Andrew Cooper says there’s a “real possibility” of a soft-ground Derby on Saturday) however for these days the legitimate verdict is in and it’s Good to tender, excellent in puts. After some rain this morning (1mm) it’s forecast to transparent to a brighter, breezy afternoon with temperatures within the mid to prime teenagers.
“When ground is drying, there comes a point when you lose control of it – and this place dries very quickly.”
Clerk of the path Andrew Cooper explains the verdict to irrigate at Epsom on Tuesday and why he feels it was once the precise factor to do
— Racing TV (@RacingTV) June 6, 2025
Preamble
Greg Wood
Good morning from Epsom racecourse in this first day of this yr’s Derby assembly, the place racing pros and a scattering of early punters alike are staring anxiously on the skies and questioning how the bottom might be using for each Friday’s Oaks and the Derby itself in a little bit over 24 hours’ time.
There is quite a few blue sky above the monitor at the moment however there was once rain previous and it has already been probably the most trickier run-u.s.to the Classic assembly in Andrew Cooper’s 30-year tenure as clerk of the path.
“I’ve never known such a prolonged dry period from March, April and through into May, so it’s been challenging,” Cooper instructed the draw rite in an area cinema on Wednesday. “It hasn’t been great for grass, it’s been constant irrigation just to get us to where we want to be.
“There was 3.5mm of rain on Tuesday, which was forecast, but it’s very localised and Sandown [eight miles away] didn’t get any at all. It’s unsettled for sure, and in terms of the volume of rain on a race day, when you’re racing over the ground, it really doesn’t take a lot to start shifting things quite quickly.”
The Jockey Club’s are living replace web page for Epsom was once reporting a complete of 4.8mm since middle of the night at 9.30am these days, and 11.4mm over the former seven days. As a end result, the going at Epsom is now excellent to tender, excellent in puts, having been excellent all over the place two days in the past, regardless that as but there may be little have an effect on at the Oaks making a bet, the place Desert Flower, the 1,000 Guineas winner, stays a cast favorite at round 6-4 in spite of the nagging doubts about whether or not she’s going to see out the 12-furlong commute.
Whirl, one in every of 3 runners from the Aidan O’Brien backyard, is a drifter this morning, alternatively, out to 6-1 from round 9-2 in a single day, whilst Minnie Hauk, the mount of O’Brien’s No 1, Ryan Moore, is a cast second-favourite at round 5-1.
The primary supporting race at the Classic card is the Coronation Cup at 2.40pm, for older horses over the whole Derby and Oaks commute, and the very likeable Calandagan, who has completed both first or moment on his final 8 begins, might be favorite right here to get an late first Group One win at the board. You can learn my complete preview of these days’s TV races right here.
The card is below means at 1.30pm with the Surrey Stakes over seven furlongs, and the entire information and effects from Oaks day might be right here at the weblog inside seconds because the afternoon’s motion unfolds.
