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Corazon Espinado ridden by Hollie Doyle (right) coming home to win the Coral 'Beaten By A Length' Free Bet Handicap during day one of the Cazoo Derby Festival at Epsom Racecourse

OF COURSE the big race of the weekend is the Cazoo Derby at Epsom (4.30) which surprisingly has just the one Aidan O’Brien runner (favourite Bolshoi Ballet), with his stablemate High Definition having defected in favour of the Irish version, which offers plenty of each-way alternatives in the rest of the 12-strong field.

Here is my A to Z for the big race run over a mile and a half of the twisting and undulating Surrey track.

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