Can Preferment defy the odds and do the Derby and Cup double?

By Michael Lynch
Updated October 4 2015 - 7:13pm, first published 6:49pm

It's seemingly an axiom of modern racing life that the Victoria Derby is a dreadful anachronism, a staying test run far too early in the season for immature three-year-olds; a race that breaks far more horses than it makes.

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