Lambourn stormed away from his rivals to win the Derby at Epsom and give Irish trainer Aidan O’Brien a record-extending 11th win in the Classic.<\/b><\/p>\n
The 13-2 chance, ridden by Wayne Lordan, set a relentless gallop and could not be caught.<\/p>\n
Outsider Lazy Griff (50-1) was three and three quarter lengths back in second, with Tennessee Stud (28-1) third.<\/p>\n
Lambourn had been seen as the outsider of O’Brien’s three contenders in the build-up to the race.<\/p>\n
But favourite Delacroix – the pick of stable jockey Ryan Moore – could only finish ninth, while The Lion In Winter was 14th.<\/p>\n
Lambourn was sent to the front early by Lordan and his stamina proved crucial as he ran out an impressive winner in the race’s 246th running.<\/p>\n
“Wayne gave him an incredible ride. He’s been a great fella, he’s done so much hard work through all the years.” said O’Brien.<\/p>\n
The trainer was winning the Derby for a third year running and completing a Classic double after landing the Oaks with Minnie Hauk on Friday. He also won the Coronation Cup at Epsom with Jan Breughel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lambourn stormed away from his rivals to win the Derby at Epsom and give Irish trainer Aidan O’Brien…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-165347","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-racing","8":"tag-racing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114642915429938238","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}