Lydia marks your card Derby guide

From: Evening Standard - London | Date: June 8, 2001| Author: LYDIA HISLOP | Copyright information

THE smallest Vodafone Derby field for 12 years is not short on debating points.

Could Golan be the next Nashwan and annex Epsom-classic victory to his 2,000 Guineas success? Does top Irish handler Aidan O'Brien finally have a real Derby candidate in Galileo after so many hype horses? Can Lambourn trainer Barry Hills finally lay the ghost of 32 Derby runners without a winner with a third of tomorrow's field on his side?

Like Nashwan in 1989, Golan must quell 11 competitors to em...

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