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WHEN it comes to winning derbies, not many can do it as well as the Aga Khan can. Those famous red and green colours of his have already been carried to victory in four Blue Ribands at Epsom, plus five of the Irish version, and at Ayr yesterday Kalaman ensured the Scottish equivalent was added to the role of honour.
Success for the Kieren Fallon-ridden winner wasn't without its hiccups, with the champion, his mount and the legions who had bet them into 5-6 favourite having to survive an anxious wait for the stewards to confirm the result.

Scotland's only Group 2 contest began much as expected with Mark Johnston's Gateman bursting from the stalls to establish an early lead that at one stage must have stretched to about ten lengths.

Fallon, sitting quietly in behind, seemed unperturbed about the events unfolding up ahead of him and when he produced the Sir Michael Stoute-trained colt to make what proved to be a winning challenge the huge crowd of over 9,000 got ready to roar the pair home.

This, though, was Kalaman we were talking about, a horse who has frequently given the impression of not being the most straightforward individual in the world and just when it seemed the â