Ambiente Friendly puts down Derby marker in Lingfield success

Much to like about James Fanshawe-trained winner.

Ambiente Friendly put himself very much into the Epsom blue riband picture when running out an emphatic winner of the William Hill Lingfield Derby Trial Stakes.

Aidan O’Brien’s Illinois was the 6-4 favourite and Ryan Moore had him at the head of affairs turning for home, with a wall of horses spread across the track in behind.

Despite hanging, the Irish raider saw off several challengers but he had no answer to Ambiente Friendly’s sparkling turn of foot down the wide outside.

Callum Shepherd could afford to take it easy on the James Fanshawe-trained son of Gleneagles throughout the final furlong, but he still crossed the line four and a half lengths clear for an 8-1 triumph.

Coral slashed the odds of him following up at Epsom from 100-1 to 12-1, while Betfair and Paddy Power shortened the winner even further to 10-1.

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