LESTER Piggott, the daddy of them all, can write another chapter in the annals of British racing history by taking today's English Derby on the appropriately named Fatherland.
The greatest event in Flat racing is simulcast live from Epsom tonight and bet on as the seventh event on Happy Valley's grass programme.
Favourite Tenby will be very hard to beat but he will almost certainly be at short odds.
It may be better value to back Fatherland to win, save on Tenby - providing he is not a ridiculously short price on the Hongkong tote - and take the Fatherland-Tenby quinella.
Piggott has been keen on Fatherland, a son of boom sire Saddler's Wells, since scoring on him in Group One company at the Curragh as a two-year-old.
When the maestro was out here on an international licence in February and March, he said: ''Henry (Cecil) has a great team for the Derby. Tenby is likely to be there with a good favourite's chance. He has Armiger, the soft-ground horse and they say he has one at home who hasn't raced yet but goes just as well (Crown Commander).