Nineteen-year-old Joseph O'Brien steered the horse trained by his father, Aidan to victory.
His mother, having difficulty holding back tears, said that she had been talking to Lester Pigott earlier in the week and he told them to take their time. Camelot was at the back of the field with three furlongs to go.
It is the first time since Nijinsky in 1970 that a horse won both the Two Thousand Guineas and Derby. Nijinsky was also trained in Ballydoyle and ridden by Lester Pigott.
So far this year Aidan O'Brien has won the English Thousand Guineas Two Thousand Guines, The Epsom Oaks and now the Derby.
A little note to add: when we were novices in the Dominican Order, if I recall correclty, we had to get 'special permission' to watch the race.
What at all was it all for? Was it something to do with a most spurious understanding of the world? A superiority, a hatred, a madness that in the end created a monster?
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