Epsom SATURDAY, 01 JUNE 2013, INVESTEC DERBY (Group 1) (Entire Colts & Fillies) (CLASS 1) (3yo). DAWN APPROACH has dominated the Investec Derby betting since his 2,000 Guineas romp but on Friday night the bookies ended weeks of market stalemate by declaring their intention to take on the favourite.

Dawn Approach winning the Dubai Dewhurst Stakes

Dawn Approach: the Derby favourite is being pushed out by layers

 PICTURE: Martin Lynch (racingpost.com/photos)

Bookies out to get Dawn Approach in Derby

 BY TOM KERR7:10PM 31 MAY 2013 

DAWN APPROACH has dominated the Investec Derby betting since his 2,000 Guineas romp but on Friday night the bookies ended weeks of market stalemate by declaring their intention to take on the favourite.

Epsom SATURDAY, 01 JUNE 2013, INVESTEC DERBY (Group 1) (Entire Colts & Fillies) (CLASS 1) (3yo)

  • Winner: £782,314, Runners: 12, Distance: 1m4f10y, Going: Good To Soft, Channel: CH4

£1,379,500 guaranteed For 3yo, entire colts and fillies Weights colts.9st; fillies 8st 11lb Entries 459 pay £ 500 Confirmed 15 pay £ 2500 Penalty value 1st £782,314.45 2nd £296,592.50 3rd £148,434.20 4th£73,941.20 5th £37,108.55 6th £18,623.25

NO. DRAW 
FORM		 HORSE AGE WGT 
OR		 JOCKEY 
TRAINER RTF%		 TS RPR  
19111-11 Owner details BATTLE OF MARENGO p

20
 3
9-0
117
 106 132
 
 
2421-1 Owner details CHOPIN

41
 3
9-0
115
 — 128
 
 
371111-1 Owner details DAWN APPROACH

28
 3
9-0
125
 132 141
 
 
4251-3 Owner details FESTIVE CHEER

20
 3
9-0
111
 79 126
 
 
58127-96 Owner details FLYING THE FLAG

7
 3
9-0
108
 111 122
 
 
61115-3 Owner details GALILEO ROCK

36
 3
9-0
108
 104 121
 
 
75141 Owner details LIBERTARIAN

16
 3
9-0
112
 108 129
 
 
8121-6 Owner details MARS

28
 3
9-0
108
 92 120
 
 
965137-1 Owner details MIRSAALE

38
 3
9-0
96
 105 115
 
 
10364-998 Owner details OCEAN APPLAUSE p

38
 3
9-0
74
 32 92
 
 
1111-11 Owner details OCOVANGO

28
 3
9-0
114
 89 128
 
 
121011 Owner details RULER OF THE WORLD p

23
 3
9-0
109
 113 129
 
 
The Jim Bolger-trained favourite had been odds-on in places this week and was no bigger than 5-4 early on Friday afternoon, yet he will be 7-4 with Ladbrokes on Saturday morning, out from 10-11 just 24 hours earlier.

William Hill are also intent on taking on Bolger’s horse and will go 6-4 from Saturday morning.

Ladbrokes will offer the 7-4 for an initial 15 minutes from 8.15am to a maximum stake of £50.

The easing of Dawn Approach’s price began on Friday afternoon and he is now 11-8 with three firms: Sportingbet, BetVictor and Paddy Power.

BetVictor spokesman Charlie McCann said: “We are convinced the colt won’t stay the Derby trip despite his sire [New Approach] winning the corresponding event in 2008 and have pushed Jim Bolger’s colt out to 11-8 from 5-4 earlier today.”

Bolger himself was on Friday relaxed about the colt’s chances of staying the Derby trip, offering a typically laid-back assessment of the champion colt’s wellbeing on the eve of the race.

“He is very well and the ground drying out is good news. He did his final piece of work on Tuesday and we were very happy with him,” he said.

“Dawn Approach is what he is and it will be his relaxed manner and class that will see him get the trip, if that is to happen. We’ll find that out soon enough.”

The going at Epsom was changed on Friday evening to good to soft, good in places and clerk of the course Andrew Cooper said drying conditions would continue into Saturday.

He said: “I’ve just walked the entire Derby course after the last today and the GoingStick returned 7.1, compared to 6.7 earlier.

“We will review it again in the morning, but we are expecting a dry night and a drying day tomorrow, perhaps not as warm as today, but it is slowly improving and I could see us calling it good, or at the very least on the slow side of good, at some point tomorrow.”

fonte: RacingPost