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| |  Saturday, 1 June, 2002, 15:45 GMT 16:45 UK Johnston pair join Derby field Fight Your Corner will run in the Epsom Derby The Mark Johnston-trained pair of Bandari and Fight Your Corner have both been added to next Saturday's Vodafone Derby field at Epsom on 8 June. As expected the pair, who have both been sold in recent weeks, have been added to the field for the premier classic after impressing in their Derby trials.
Bandari blew away a fair field in the Lingfield Derby Trial, seeing off his rivals by an easy 13 lengths. Fight Your Corner staked his claim by taking the Chester Vase at the May meeting. Because the two colts had not been entered at any of the previous stages the owners have had to pay �90,000 for their horses to take part. The pair will be racing for a share of the �1.38m prize fund available for the classic. Bandari is set to be partnered by retained rider Richard Hills with Kevin Darley likely to keep the mount on Fight Your Corner. Bandari and Fight Your Corner were the only two additions to the field for the one-and-a half-mile classic. Johnston said: "Next week will be a bit of a nightmare. They have got to get through next week.
"I think they are closely matched. I keep chopping and changing between them. "After Lingfield when Bandari won so easily and his form is rock solid and should be the number one horse. "But Fight Your Corner is such an easy horse to train - he is so well, absolutely bouncing out of his skin. "He is a lion at the moment, the one who is desperate for run and that has to make us lean a little back his way now." | |
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