Weld has high hopes Hazapour can take him back to the Epsom summit

Two years ago Dermot Weld reached the summit, the Everest of his training career, when he won the Investec Derby with the Aga Khan-owned Harzand.

Such sparse detail ignores the attendant drama, since it was very nearly a case of returning to base camp when Harzand spread a plate on the morning of the race.

The son of 2009 Derby winner Sea The Stars received intensive treatment and spent several hours in a racecourse stable with the injured foot in a bucket of ice before Weld gave the final go-ahead, with the proviso that he should be withdrawn if showing any hint of lameness at the start.