Gutsy Sir Percy is a knight to remember; The Guineas runner-up can go one better in tomorrow's Epsom Derby, says.

From: The Evening Standard (London, England) | Date: June 2, 2006 | Copyright information

Byline: GRAHAM CUNNINGHAM

THE fictional Sir Percy made his name during the French Revolution by swooping late to save assorted noblemen from the guillotine in his secret guise as the Scarlet Pimpernel.

His equine namesake encounters a very different set of French aristocrats in front of 100,000 people at Epsom tomorrow, but Marcus Tregoning's star colt can rise to the occasion by fending off the challenge of the much-vaunted Visindar in an absorbing Vodafone Derby.

French racing has endured 30 years of hurt since Empery last took the world's greatest Classic across ...

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