Pat Smullen celebrates winning the 2016 Derby aboard Harzand, the last to do so in the Aga Khan silks

This year’s Derby (Saturday, 3:30pm) is a feast for punters, and maybe best treated like a pick ‘n’ mix with the World Pool in action.

With over 25 countries betting into the same pools there’ll be plenty of value and liquidity in the exotic markets, so I’ll take three to put into a Quinella, which is a prediction on the first two horses home in any order.

DELACROIX and PRIDE OF ARRAS firmly deserve their places towards the head of the betting.

Delacroix was a taking winner of the Derby Trial at Leopardstown last time out and won the Ballysax Stakes in decisive fashion the start before that.

As a two-year-old, he showed a good attitude to miss out in a head-bob for the Futurity Tro

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