LONDON – Queen Elizabeth II, Lester Piggott and Michael Stoute are indelibly linked to the Epsom Derby and appropriately all three will be foremost on everyone’s minds in Saturday’s renewal which is part of the Platinum Jubilee celebrations.
There is uncertainty over whether the Queen will attend the ‘blue riband’ that is named in honour of Piggott, who as a jockey won a record nine Derbies and died last Sunday aged 86, and whose favourite Desert Crown is trained by five-time winner Stoute.
If so it will only be the fourth time that she will have…
