Adayar dismisses his rivals in the King George (Image: Racing Post Alan Crowhurst)
They always maintained Adayar was a good Derby winner. They can now be sure he was a great one after he became the first horse since Galileo two decades earlier to win the Epsom Classic and the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Qipco Stakes in the same season.
History was stacked against them but Charlie Appleby stuck to the once popular route. Sadly, he was not there to see the plan come to fruition, though, as he was pinged by the NHS Covid app earlier this week.
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